Staff Product Manager

Who We Are

United Masters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. United Masters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties.

Through the combination of United Masters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, United Masters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The United Masters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from You Tube, Sound Cloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

This role is based in San Francisco with four days in-office and one day remote.

United Masters is looking for a Staff Product Manager to operate as a force multiplier across the organization: setting product strategy for entire problem spaces, driving outsized business results, and raising the bar for how the entire product team builds. You will obsess over the functional and emotional needs of music creators and independent music labels at every stage of their growth, while pioneering how AI reshapes both what we build for artists and how we build it.

As a Staff PM, you are expected to lead through influence rather than authority, tackle our most ambiguous and highest-leverage problems, and mentor other PMs in the craft. You will partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and operations teams to improve and expand the full United Masters product suite including tools for early-stage artists, high-traction artists, and independent record labels:

• Own product strategy for a major area of the business. Define and champion a multi-quarter, unified product vision and roadmap that supports all of our artists: early-stage artists, artists gaining traction, and independent labels and ensure they have the tools they need to release music, grow an audience, and earn money. Connect that strategy directly to company-level objectives.
• Pioneer AI-powered artist experiences. Identify, prototype, and ship AI-driven features that create step-change value for creators and labels from intelligent release and audience-growth tooling to earnings insights and creative assistance. Develop a strong point of view on where AI meaningfully improves the artist experience versus where it adds noise, and set the standard for responsible, high-quality AI product development across the company.
• Raise the bar on team velocity with AI. Champion the adoption of AI tools to accelerate how the product org works using rapid prototyping, AI-assisted research synthesis, reusable AI skills and workflows, and internal agents to compress the path from idea to validated concept to shipped feature. Model these practices for other PMs and help operationalize them across teams.
• Synthesize signal across all segments. Continuously collect and synthesize artist feedback through research, interviews, product analytics, and our artist-facing teams leveraging AI to accelerate and deepen that synthesis. Translate these insights into clear product requirements and roadmap priorities that increase adoption, satisfaction, and long-term retention.
• Own the competitive and technology landscape. Stay deeply informed about the competitive landscape and the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem, understanding how other platforms work and identifying opportunities for United Masters to stand out and deliver more value to creators and labels.
• Master the end-to-end artist experience. Develop a deep understanding of the full artist journey, from onboarding and releasing new music to reviewing performance and earnings ensuring every step is intuitive, reliable, and delightful.
• Drive cross-functional execution. Collaborate with teams…