Commercial Services - Commercial Partnerships (Onsite: CA):

How You’ll CREATE:

UMG Commercial Partnerships is the support organization for all owned and associated labels as well as UMG business divisions relating to the commercial exploitation of content. As a cross-functional team, we are the nexus of execution, working collaboratively with Labels, Digital Strategy, Production, Supply Chain/Customer Service, Content Protection, Rights Management, Global Insights, Data & Analytics and external industry partners.

• Label Support: Liaise with account management team to field both owned and distributed label partners’ day-to-day requests such as DSP profile optimization, ad-hoc sales reporting, troubleshooting product delivery issues, and other operational support tasks

• Account Management: Provide label partners with account-specific operational support, collect & communicate advanced links for RUSH releases, track & identify social media trends and provide summary to internal team

• Release Admin & Planning: Assist in identifying & communicating UMG’s upcoming New Releases, working with owned & distributed labels to collect assets, organize pitch details, and communicate priorities to partners. Track, identify & summarize social media trends for internal team

Ideal candidates will have:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with emphasis on relationship building with labels and partners.

• Experience with analytics, search engines and social media marketing is a plus. SQL, Python, data coding and visualization skills are welcome.

• Strong interest in music and pop culture is a must!

Corporate Communications - Sustainability/ESG (Onsite: NY):

How You’ll CREATE:

The Sustainability/ESG team leads UMG's global environmental action, including accounting for and reducing negative environmental impacts, creating positive environmental impacts, and telling our story through formal reporting on other communications.

• Organize and optimize upcoming disclosure activities

• Organize volunteer programs for our impact ambassadors worldwide

• Assist in renewable energy transition planning

Ideal candidates will have:

• Sustainability interest and/or coursework is preferred

Data & Analytics - Global eCommerce & Audience Analytics/Reporting (Remote):

How You’ll CREATE:

Our team manages a variety of eCommerce and marketing reporting products, tools, and dashboards for a variety of business users. Our mission is to build compelling reports to drive meaningful action across our varied list of central teams and labels, and partner with other relevant teams (tech, data science, etc.) to find opportunities to enhance our capabilities and empower teams to make more data-informed decisions.

• Serve a key role in the development of various reporting products/dashboards, helping to craft the technical approach and deliverable aligned with business objectives

• Foster relationships with other labels, marketing, eCommerce, and operations teams to gather, scrutinize, and document business requirements

• Design advanced, compelling, actionable data visualizations for a variety of different stakeholder groups

• Help drive enterprise-wide product engagement and adoption via regular data QA and troubleshooting

• Leverage your data-oriented mindset, instincts, and curiosity to identify the signals, trends and meaningful information from an array of datasets

• Actively innovate and enhance our suite of tools to maintain a best-in-class service offering

Ideal candidates will have:

• Graduate-level student

• Minimum 2-3 years of direct experience in data analytics/reporting

• Strong proficiency in SQL with proven ability to write complex queries to analyze data

• Experience in customizing and managing BI tool frontend environments (Looker is a huge plus)

• Ability to craft actionable and compelling stories from large/disparate datasets and make complex concepts/analysis easy to understand

• Be a critical thinker who values the importance of always putting data into the appropriate context

• Must love music!

Data & Analytics - Strategic Analytics (Onsite: CA):

How You’ll CREATE:

The Strategic Analytics department supports Universal Music Group’s global business by transforming data into actionable strategy. We partner with labels, central functions, and leadership teams to deliver advanced analytics, forecasting, and insight frameworks that inform artist strategy, catalog management, and market growth. Our mission is to make data-driven decision-making faster, smarter, and more impactful across the company.

As part of the Strategic Analytics team at Universal Music Group, you will contribute to high-impact projects that connect data, business strategy, and music. You will gain exposure to the analytical frameworks and commercial thinking that guide UMG’s global labels and leadership teams.

• Support market and artist performance analyses, identifying trends that inform strategic and commercial decisions;

• Assist in the design and delivery of analytical projects focused on catalog growth, release performance, and audience engagement;

• Translate insights into clear business recommendations through structured storytelling and presentation building;

• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, insights, and finance teams to align data-driven findings with creative and operational goals;

• Contribute to internal tools and dashboards that help stakeholders access and interpret insights efficiently;

• Participate in process and communication improvements, such as refining presentation templates, organizing project repositories, or supporting team-wide initiatives;

• Demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking by proposing new methods, metrics, or approaches to improve how we measure success and communicate value.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset: you’re curious, ask smart questions, challenge assumptions, and connect ideas across disciplines;

• Comfortable using Excel for data modeling and analysis (formulas, pivot tables, lookups, scenario modeling) and PowerPoint for building clear, visual, and compelling presentations;

• Curiosity and initiative: eager to explore how strategy, data, and creativity intersect to shape the music business.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Some experience coding for data analytics (e.g., SQL or Python);

• Familiarity with data-visualization tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI;

• Previous exposure to any area of the music industry.

• Above all, we value curiosity, collaboration, and a genuine willingness to dive in and learn.

Facility & Property Services - Facilities (Onsite: CA & TN):

How You’ll CREATE:

The Facility & Property Services department manages all aspects of UMG’s physical spaces including ensuring a safe and functional office space, maintaining building systems, overseeing large construction projects and repairs, and managing lease strategies and landlord relations.

• Assisting with operational process improvement, project management, and administrative duties related to day-to-day facilities operations

• Construction projects, and lease management

• Invoice payment, project tracking, proposal review, lease analysis, systems creation, and strategic operations

Ideal candidates will have:

• Creative problem-solving skills

Global Insights - Artist Insights and Strategy (Onsite: NY):

How You’ll CREATE:

Global Insights supports labels and business units across UMG, with a focus on strategic insights and research that informs marketing, A&R, commercial/digital teams and campaign strategy.

• Work closely with the Global Insight Directors in running strategic analysis that informs A&R, commercial and digital strategies for UMG.

• Support global insights team on artist and broader industry insights requests

• Analyze trends across platforms (streaming, social media, and physical sales) to uncover actionable insights and support label strategies.

• Support in creating visualizations and storytelling presentations that clearly communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Ideal candidates will have:

• High proficiency in Excel and Keynote

• Analyzing data across multiple sources and compiling key takeaways

• Data analysis/condensing into key insights

• Data Visualization

• A passion and knowledge of music industry and pop culture landscape

Global Revenue Royalty Operations - Royalty Accounting Group (Remote):

How You’ll CREATE:

Royalty Accounting Group handles all accounting functions for UMG's Royalty Department. Interacts with Central Accounting Services, Label Finance Teams, and various Royalty Teams (Artist, Copyright, Union, and Audit).

There are 3 sub-divisions within Royalty Accounting Group. The goal is to have our intern work with all 3 teams.

• P&L

• Balance sheets

• UMG's merchandise royalties

Ideal candidates will have:

• Basic accounting skills and knowledge

• Understanding debit and credit.

North America Finance - Commercial Services (Onsite: CA):

How You’ll CREATE:

This dynamic team drives the Finance and Planning functions across UMG’s Commercial Services division; including our third party distributed labels, UMG for Brands, eCommerce, Marketing and °1824 business units. This team is charged with strategic partner relations, including business reviews, historical trend analysis and forward-looking planning.

• Data consolidation

• Data analysis

• Invoicing/chargeback support

North America Finance - Central Operations (Onsite: CA):

How You’ll CREATE:

The Central Operations Finance team oversees the costs associated with the day-to-day operating departments such as facilities, PIC, royalties, and accounting. We create budgets and forecasts as well as review the actuals at month-end close.

• Updating and preparing our forecast and budget files along with shadowing fellow team members to learn how to project future financial assumptions.

• Attend meetings and assist with ensuring that we gather all necessary information to help with forecasting.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Flexibility when deadlines and work are fluctuating

• Ability to work across multiple departments and ask for prioritization clarification.

North America Finance - US Compliance (Remote):

How You’ll CREATE:

The UMG US Compliance & Controls team supports our annual compliance program including but not limited to: internal control evaluation, design and documentation, walkthroughs, sample-based audit testing, remediation, results reporting and process improvements.

• Assist with control testing

• Update process flowcharts

• Update risk and control matrices (RCMs)

• Assist with ad-hoc tasks as needed

Ideal candidates will have:

• Working knowledge of Excel and formulas

• Business-related background (preferably in accounting)

• Critical/Analytical thinker

North America Finance - Finance & Planning (Onsite: CA):

How You’ll CREATE:

The North America Finance team consolidates the results of the Universal Music labels, providing guidance and analyzing performance for the North American territory. This position will interact closely with Universal Music label Finance teams and the Central Accounting team to support the monthly close processes, document variance explanations, and analyze results. The intern will be involved in the quarterly financial forecast and annual operating plan processes while also assisting with other ad hoc analyses as required.

• Provide day-to-day finance support to the North America Recorded Music Division and liaise with the Label Finance teams and Central Accounting team on key elements of the monthly close/forecasts

• Assist in preparation and assembly of quarterly financial forecasts and annual plan for UMG

• Analyze actual variances to budget and forecast for various Universal Music divisions

• Collect, analyze and report key performance indicators and highlight trends in margin, artist investment and cash flow

• Participate in developing forward looking revenue guidance for North America labels by analyzing industry trends, marketing data, DSP reporting as well as historical data

• Assist in analyzing and forecasting revenue accruals for the entire territory to ensure timely reporting with accuracy

• Develop KPIs/dashboards/presentations by synthesizing large datasets to consumable financial insights to senior executives

• Drive efficiency by identifying areas for system improvement/adoption as well as guiding continuous improvement efforts for financial analysis & reporting tools

• Provide ad hoc analyses as required

Ideal candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree qualified (specific to business, finance or accounting)

People, Inclusion & Culture – People Development & People Operations and Systems (Onsite: CA):

How You’ll CREATE:

People, Inclusion and Culture (PIC), UMG’s HR department, is looking for an intern that is curious about the business of music and interested in supporting the day-to-day operations of two of our people-centered teams.

The People Operations & Systems team acts as the engine room of HR and is responsible for managing the core administrative and technological infrastructure that supports the entire PIC function, such as employee information, data management, compliance, reporting and analytics.

The People Development & Organizational Effectiveness team acts as a strategic partner to the business by developing a culture of inclusion, belonging and learning that supports innovation, training and development, employee performance and engagement.

• Program branding & marketing strategy

• Vendor management support

• Project management

• PowerPoint design and creation

• General administrative support

• Social media design and content creation experience is a plus

Ideal candidate will have:

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Interest in employee systems, operations and career development

• Strong program and project management experience

• Eagerness to learn and contribute to a collaborative team environment

• Strong video editing and content creation skills

• Experience with making visual assets in creative programs (Canva, Adobe Pro or similar)

People, Inclusion & Culture – Talent Acquisition and Strategy, Insights & Planning (Onsite: NY)

Bring Your VIBE (ALL ROLES):

• Strong attention to detail

• Strong organizational skills and efficiency

• Ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines in fast- paced, high-pressure environments

• High level of integrity

• Discretion in handling confidential information

• Professionalism in dealing with senior professionals inside and outside the company

• A “can-do” attitude

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Self-starter

• Excellent communication skills

• Eager to learn