Product Owner
Description
We’re looking for a Product Owner to join Ultimate Guitar and take ownership of the product experience across web and mobile.
This is a key role for someone who loves combining product strategy, user experience, growth, data, and experimentation — and who is excited to lead a talented team while shaping the future of a product used by millions of music lovers around the world.
What is in it for you?
Radical ownership and impact - drive product strategy, roadmap, and community engagement.
Work at the intersection of music, open source, and AI - help define the next generation of creative tools alongside one of the largest music communities in the world.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the Ultimate Guitar website and app, focusing on strategy, user experience, and cross-platform consistency.
- Drive the strategic product roadmap for web and mobile platforms to improve traffic, user activation, and retention.
- Collaborate with Growth and Monetization teams to align product initiatives with business objectives.
- Own product documentation, maintaining requirements, feature descriptions, and hypotheses while ensuring team alignment.
- Enhance UX and UI through data-driven insights, user feedback, and continuous experimentation.
- Oversee the product life cycle from concept to release, ensuring timely delivery and quality.
- Take full ownership of product outcomes, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Foster a product mindset within the team by making customer-centric, data-informed decisions and continuously validating assumptions.
- Build a collaborative, peer-to-peer culture, encouraging knowledge sharing, curiosity, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Leverage AI tools and workflows to improve product discovery, decision-making, and execution efficiency.
- Manage a team of up to 13 members.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager for high-traffic content platforms, handling large-scale entertainment or learning content, ideally with over 1 million daily active users.
- Proven experience in managing cross-platform products across web and mobile, ensuring consistency and seamless user experience.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Strong critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Strong product mindset with the ability to balance user value, business impact, and execution.
- Solid understanding of market dynamics, user behavior, and customer needs.
- Experience using AI-powered tools to enhance product management processes, research, prioritization, and team productivity.
- Ability to work in a T-shaped environment, collaborating effectively across disciplines while contributing deep product expertise.
- Upper-intermediate or higher level of English.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
Nice to have:
- Experience playing a musical instrument (no formal music theory knowledge required).
