Product owner smpd

We're looking for a senior, experienced Product Owner to lead growth phase and take products to the next level. SMP and SMD are core D2C products poised to become one of our main revenue engines.

SMP is a direct-to-consumer retail site that offers sheet music to musicians in every genre, at every level from beginner to pro.

SMD is a professional mobile app offering access to over 2.2 million licensed sheet music titles from Hal Leonard and partner publishers.

We are actively integrating AI and automation into all areas of the business and expect candidates with mindset focused on improving efficiency and deliver a better user experience.

What is in it for you?

• Own a product used by millions - Shape the future of the applications used by performers, educators, and serious hobbyists looking for a distraction-free, professional sheet music experience.
• Radical ownership and impact - Full end-to-end ownership of strategy, roadmap, and delivery.
• Experimenation engine - Design the experimentation engine, uncover new revenue streams and subscriptions.

Key responsibilities

Monetization & revenue

• Own the monetization roadmap for SMD; accelerate the pace of monetization initiatives (release-to-release, not quarter-to-quarter)
• Drive feature implementation speed across SMP and SMD — reduce time from decision to release
• Build and maintain a close working connection with the monetization team: shared backlog visibility, joint prioritization, aligned experiment pipeline

Metrics & plan/fact

• Own the product metric layer for SMP and SMD: definitions, data quality, dashboards
• Resolve outstanding metric issues (gaps, broken tracking, conflicting sources)
• Run regular plan-vs-fact reviews; explain deviations with a clear causal narrative, not descriptive reporting

Product bets & discovery

• Identify and validate big product bets for SMP and SMD — hypotheses with a quantified business upside, not feature ideas
• Establish a working discovery process in both products: hypothesis → research → decision, each discovery framed with an expected business outcome
• Run a monthly backlog refresh cycle: re-prioritize against business goals and current team capacity

AI in the team process

• Introduce AI-native ways of working into the team workflow: design-system-driven development, templates, agents, design agents
• Make AI usage a default part of the delivery process (specs, design, frontend, research), not an individual experiment

Delivery ownership

• Own backlog, prioritization, and release scope for SMP and SMD
• Make product decisions proactively — surface tradeoffs and decide, rather than escalating for direction

Requirements

Hard skills:

• Min 3+ years as Product Owner / Product Manager on a B2C digital product with a subscription or transactional revenue model
• Proven track record of monetization work: pricing, paywall, conversion, subscription funnel — with revenue impact you can quantify
• Strong analytical foundation
• Experience owning discovery end to end: framing hypotheses, choosing research method, converting findings into roadmap decisions
• Demonstrated ability to increase delivery speed in an existing team — shortening cycle time without dropping quality (using AI tools)
• Proactive decision-making: comfortable making calls with incomplete data and owning the outcome
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Soft skills:

• Can work under revenue pressure
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits

• Creativity every day: Make inspiring products for musicians, artists and creators – no day is the same.
• Impactful work Influence the future of the music industry and change the lives of millions worldwide.
• Work set up: We’ll make sure you’re set up for success with the right work equipment, whether that’s company-provided hardware or an equipment allowance.
• Growth and development: Receive specialized training, language lessons, conferences and learning materials.
• Team well-being: Support for your mental health and wellbeing, including confidential help during life’s tougher moments.