Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
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The A Side: A Day in the Life
Universal Music Group for Brands (UMGB) is the dedicated brand agency of Universal Music Group, creating innovative business solutions that connect brands with culture through music. As Senior Director, Data & Innovation, you will shape the future of UMGB's data, insight and AI capabilities, leading the strategy, development and adoption of proprietary platforms that transform cultural intelligence into commercial advantage. You will combine product leadership, analytics, AI, engineering and innovation to build trusted enterprise solutions used by teams and clients globally.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Lead responsible AI implementation, ensuring generated outputs are source-grounded, explainable, governed and suitable for external use.
Establish governance frameworks spanning AI, data quality, security, privacy, auditability and enterprise compliance.
Lead strategic conversations around clean rooms, data partnerships, measurement and emerging technology with brands, agencies and platform partners.
Partner with Strategy, Commercial, Engineering, Design and Analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable product solutions.
Embed best practices across product development, engineering, testing, deployment, monitoring and operational excellence.
Excellent knowledge of SQL and modern analytics platforms; experience with Python, BigQuery and BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI or Domo) is desirable.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture including APIs, authentication, RBAC, audit logging and cloud platforms.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Media or related discipline; MBA or postgraduate qualification desirable.
Bonus Tracks: Why This Role Matters
This role sits at the intersection of data, culture, AI and commercial innovation. You will define how Universal Music Group for Brands turns proprietary cultural intelligence into differentiated products, trusted client solutions and new commercial opportunities, helping shape the next generation of data-led marketing.
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
Data, Analytics & Business Intelligence
