Enterprise Product Lead

Sony•Madison, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Sony Music Publishing (SMP), we are undergoing a significant, multi-year program to modernize our core technology and business processes. This initiative aims to prepare our systems for emerging technologies like AI and to handle the increasing complexity of the music business. We are seeking a visionary Enterprise Product Lead to be a key leader within our Transformation Office. This role will involve shaping our future-state capabilities, leading a team of Product Managers to translate enterprise strategy into a portfolio of adopted, scalable, and value-driven products, and evolving our royalty accounting products for global customers and internal teams. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic product leader focused on tangible outcomes such as product adoption, capability reuse, and measurable business value, who will champion both delivery discipline and team empowerment.

Requirements

10+ years in product management, with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading high-performing product teams in complex, matrixed organizations.
Experience translating high-level business strategy into concrete product roadmaps.
Experience incubating new ideas and researching market and customer needs.
Strong financial acumen, with demonstrated experience building and defending rigorous business cases to make difficult, value-based trade-offs and secure investment.
Proven success delivering transformative change in risk-aware, operational environments where user adoption is critical to success.
Hands-on leadership style, comfortable in the details, but empowers the team without micromanaging.
Curiosity and ability to thrive in the face of uncertainty.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to surface, prioritize, and balance competing stakeholder priorities to drive alignment.
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to leverage data to inform decisions.
Experience using principles of design thinking and customer experience to guide approach.
Strong understanding of modern product development.
Familiarity with the developing use of AI services in the product design lifecycle.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Background in the Music/Media Industry and/or Financial Services.

Responsibilities

Define and Lead Product Strategy: Collaborate with the Transformation Office Lead to define the enterprise product strategy, and then lead its execution through planning, roadmap development, and lifecycle management.
Translate Strategy to Roadmap: Convert enterprise goals into a cohesive, outcome-driven product roadmap, ensuring a clear line from vision to execution.
Champion Discovery & Validation: Drive a discovery-led process to identify the highest-value business problems, validating solutions and assumptions directly with business partners.
Author and Champion Business Cases: Develop, maintain, and champion rigorous business cases for all major initiatives, defining clear value propositions, ROI, and success metrics to drive investment and prioritization decisions.
Inform Strategy: Monitor business, market, and technology trends (including AI) to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions.
Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Product Managers, fostering a culture of excellence, autonomy, and accountability.
Establish Product Excellence: Develop and govern a strong product development lifecycle, creating consistent standards, prioritization frameworks, and clear decision-making rights.
Bridge Strategy and Execution: Lead the Product team in translating desired business outcomes into actionable product requirements and measurable KPIs.
Empower Your Team: Actively mentor your team to master the balance between strategic thinking and pragmatic execution, providing clear guardrails for value, quality, and alignment.
Align Stakeholders: Partner with senior leaders across the business to align on priorities, manage competing needs, and ensure a shared understanding of the product vision.
Act as the primary bridge between business strategy and technical execution, collaborating with Architecture and Engineering to ensure the product roadmap is both ambitious in its vision and pragmatic in its delivery.
Deliver Visible Value: Build trust across the organization by delivering value incrementally and transparently, ensuring momentum is maintained.
Measure What Matters: Define, track, and report on KPIs that measure business outcomes, product adoption, and value realization—not just project output.
Act as a Hands-On Leader: Step in to unblock teams, refine requirements, and resolve delivery risks when necessary.