Junior Manager, Music Programming

🕒 February 20

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Universal Music Group

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5001 - 10000 employees

🤝 B2B

📱 Media

B2B • Media • Music

Universal Music Group is the world leader in music-based entertainment, representing a diverse array of renowned artists and labels, including Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and The Weeknd. The company leverages proprietary insights to develop innovative brand opportunities across digital media, events, and entertainment, aiming to create authentic connections for brands with billions of engaged fans globally.

📋 Description

• You keep an eye on the streaming market and stay up to date with current trends • You identify potential for streaming products and develop suitable listening experiences • You conceptualize and create new streaming products — from the title and musical content to the appropriate brand identity (CI) • You manage a portfolio of playlists across all relevant streaming platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music) • You monitor all KPIs and optimize your playlists' performance using quantitative and qualitative data and analyses • You liaise closely with our labels to support their current releases and catalogue as effectively as possible through our playlist portfolio • You explore new playlist marketing channels, implement campaigns with the team, and independently analyze and optimize them • You expand our network of playlist curators and place our songs in external playlists

🎯 Requirements

• You have completed commercial/vocational training or hold a degree in media, communications, business/economics, or a comparable field of study • You already have experience in music programming, media, and marketing, and ideally have worked at a label or streaming provider • You find it easy to create playlists for different moments and situations • You have broad musical knowledge and, ideally, deeper familiarity with German and international pop and rap/hip‑hop genres • You know how to interpret data and are proficient with analytics tools • You have excellent written and verbal German (C2) and are comfortable communicating in English (B2) — communication is one of your strengths • You know the music market and are well connected within the music business

🏖️ Benefits

• Feel the music! — Benefit from a concert ticket budget, streaming vouchers, discounts on physical releases and merchandise, and various internal events • Be flexible! — Our hybrid working model gives you flexibility and space for creative collaboration and in-person encounters • Time to recharge! — You are more than your job: enjoy 30 days of annual leave plus additional company closure days • Get around! — Travel sustainably around the capital with discounts for BVG public transport (local transit) and our JobRad bike-leasing offer • Grow with us! — Develop continuously through a variety of training and development opportunities • Take care of yourself! — Receive support for life’s challenges — professional and personal — through independent counseling and coaching services