Product Owner - Audio Intelligence

Product Owner - Join Our Exciting Journey at AudioStack!

AudioStack is looking for an experienced Product Owner with a passion for audio technology and ability to drive forward product development in a complex technical domain. As we create the next generation of audio infrastructure, we seek an individual who can bridge the gap between technology and user needs to ship fast and bring the value of AI into the hands of creative production teams.

In this role, you will play a crucial part in shaping our product roadmap and ensuring its successful execution and market alignment. You will join a cross-functional development team and work closely with stakeholders to build exceptional audio solutions that resonate with our users.

Join us at AudioStack as we work to revolutionize the audio landscape!

Requirements

What You’ll Be Doing 

• You will be joining our audio intelligence team - a cross functional development team comprising audio engineers, machine learning and linguistics specialists, data engineers and a front end developer.
• You will be in a leading role to shape the future of audio at AudioStack.
• Articulate and communicate the context and vision for the product, in a way which motivates your teams and brings clarity to your stakeholders.
• Translate product strategy into user stories that are ready for your team to work on, and plan releases in collaboration with stakeholders to balance short term customer needs with the long term vision.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership to define product strategy and roadmaps.
• Define roadmap and make sure your team are always working on the most valuable thing.
• Collaborating with other Product Owners to manage dependencies and ensure we're all going in the same direction.

Ideal candidate 

• Will have at least 4 years' experience as a Product Owner (we will consider other titles such as Product Manager or Business Analyst but it's important that you have experience both managing stakeholders and breaking down work into user stories for a technical team to work on).
• A strong technical degree in computer science, data science or a technical audio-related degree.
• You are comfortable saying no when needed - and are able to help stakeholders see how this benefits them.
• You understand what makes a design user friendly - you have strong instincts for UX and have experience working closely with designers or even owning design yourself
• Comfortable visualising your thinking through wireframes and prototypes in Figma, Sketch or Adobe (we use Figma)
• You love data - we're looking for someone technical with data analysis experience. You are experienced working with an analytics tool such as Google Analytics, Mixpanel or similar (we use PostHog).
• Will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills - able to connect the dots and see the bigger picture, aligning stakeholders and bridging between engineering and business.
• A background in audio production - you know how to use a DAW to edit audio and understand the basics of recording. You understand the difference between mixing and mastering.
• Strong technical understanding of what's involved in developing AI-related software. This isn't a developer role, but you know what a REST API is, the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning, and have heard of DSP.

Optional but strong bonus points 

• Experience in machine learning / AI development using Python
• Experience working with APIs
• Experience building UIs with Javascript / React
• Understanding of/ experience using Text-to-Speech providers
• You have experience bringing speed and agility to industries with more traditional "waterfall" approaches. Our teams mostly work in Scrum or Kanban, but our customers are large multinationals so aligning these approaches is important.
• Experience working on partnerships including assisting with contractual agreements and managing relationships.
• Familiarity with music licensing.

Benefits

🎛 The opportunity to work in a leading voice & audio AI company, with an exceptional tech team with diverse and highly recognised backgrounds.

🎹 Be part of a great story: we are making audio scalable for the first time in history.

📔 Great Learning & Development opportunities including a Design community of practice and Product Owner-specific mentoring.

⏱ Hybrid working and Flexible working hours with 3 days in the office per week.

💰 Stock Options (subject to performance and time served).

🛠 The opportunity to shape a startup culture in a company in the fast-growing audio/video space.

🗺 A truly international and diverse team.

🥵 Offices in the hottest startup hubs London, Barcelona and New York.

🐶 Dog friendly offices (come and meet Swanson and Bernie)!

Why is now a really exciting time to join AudioStack 🚀

AudioStack is the leading Audio-As-A-Service company with a very strong technology stack and AI R&D team, featured in some of the leading media.

We have a great team and culture and you will be immersive in a very international environment and market.

We are still a small team of 30 people expanding rapidly internationally. As an early employee you have a lot of room to apply and grow your skills fast, build out a team and move quickly with your ideas, enjoying a lot of space, flexibility and trust.

🚀 Join us now to revolutionise how audio production is delivered at scale!

Our commitment to diversity 💗

We embrace diversity at www.audiostack.ai. To build a product that’s loved by everyone, we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. That's why we're committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.