Product Owner

Product Owner

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.

Required Experience

• 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).

Muse Group Empowers Music Makers

We create the world's most popular apps for playing, recording and composing music. Through our innovative learning tools, expansive music catalogs and free open-source software, we make it easier for millions — from beginners to experienced musicians — to be creative every day. Our talented team of music lovers collaborates all over the globe, from Limassol to Seoul and Boston to Berlin.

We're an ambitious company with the drive and culture of a startup — with many more exciting Muse Group developments to come. Hal Leonard, which joined Muse Group in 2023, is the world leader in sheet music publishing and music education. The company has a storied history of providing music learners with the very best methods and arrangements of popular music for over 70 years. Hal Leonard is also a major distributor of popular brands of instruments, gear, and software to the music trade worldwide.