Associate Product Manager 

Symphonic Distribution is a 100% independent music distribution and marketing company headquartered in downtown Tampa, FL and with offices in Brooklyn, Nashville, Denver, and Bogota, Colombia. We focus on distributing, promoting, and developing great independent music from artists, record labels, and many more.  Not only do we want to work with some great and prolific creators, we want to also work with creative, passionate, positive, and forward thinking individuals. Maybe this is you? If so, then below you will find an opportunity to join Symphonic. As a company, we want to have an environment that is inclusive, diverse, and accepting so that everyone, regardless of their background, race, or sexual orientation, has a chance to do great things in the industries of music, tech, and marketing. The Associate Product Manager will work full time remote and will come with some really cool perks as well as ensuring that as an individual you have the proper work/life balance.

Compensation // $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 (Depending on experience)

In a Nutshell //

We are looking for a talented Associate Product Manager for our Analytics Squad who is passionate about building products to delight and empower clients. This is a highly visible role that interacts with the CEO, department heads, and directly with clients.  The position reports to the Group Product Manager, Analytics 

What you can expect to do //

• Become the expert on Symphonic’s internally and externally-facing analytics and marketing products, as well as competitive offerings
• Maintain a steady cadence of work for squad developers and data engineers
• Document requirements with user stories, wireframes, mockups, detailed acceptance criteria, and other artifacts as necessary
• Work closely with our Finance team and other stakeholders to understand processes and needs that can be met with technical development
• Interview users on a regular basis
• Groom product backlogs on a daily and work to eliminate any blockers
• Envision new features that differentiate Symphonic and solve customer problems
• Participate in a fast, continuous delivery development process, including leading daily standups
• Work with QA to ensure that new features meet acceptance criteria and coordinate launches
• Formulate, test, and refines assumption and hypotheses through user research and testing
• Collaborate with stakeholders to test and deliver data-driven features that add value
• Change the music industry!

What you will need to have //

• Experience creating data visualization outputs (e.g. dashboards) that drive decision making 
• Ability to write SQL queries to perform analysis
• Strong quantitative skills and ability to analyze data
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills to both explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and provide context to engineers
• Ability to prioritize work in a fluid decision-making environment 
• Good instincts for what is easy or hard to implement
• Willingness to use the best ideas, not just your own ideas
• Focus on user experience
• Experience using ticket management tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Experience taking features from ideas through implementation and launch
  
  

What will set you apart //

• Previous roles in product or project management for web or mobile applications
• Experience working in the music industry, particularly with royalty data
• Basic familiarity with data pipelines, data warehouses, or dbt
• Understanding of feature flags and continuous deployment
• Experience managing stakeholder groups
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a bias toward action

Additional Insights //

• This position reports directly to the Group Product Manager
• This is a remote position; candidates must reside in Florida, Maryland, or Tennessee.

About Symphonic Distribution //

Symphonic Distribution enables content creators to fully maximize their music’s revenue and grow their global audience. The company focuses on working with: record labels, artists, managers, producers, social media influencers, and even distributors just like us to get their messages seen and heard. While our core business is to distribute music digitally and physically for the many talented creators that we have the honor of working with, we focus on a number of services, such as: Physical Distribution, User Generated Content Monetization on YouTube, Tik Tok, Triller, Instagram, Release Promotion such as Playlist pitching, marketing diagnostics, strategy and a number of other very important services to ensure that creators are maximizing and collecting on as many royalties as possible. Symphonic also showcases one of the largest partnership networks available, partnering with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, and many other services where music can be consumed on. Check out more about us on our website at www.symdistro.com