Product Owner
Muse Group · Product · Lead · 28d ago
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- Global stipend
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- Annual retreat
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About the role
In this role, you will lead the strategic transformation of Audacity into a modern DAW, overseeing audio engine migration, MIDI 2.0 integration, VSTi support, and AI-assisted workflows. You will manage the product backlog end-to-end, balance performance trade-offs for a multi-platform C++ desktop application, drive product releases, and directly lead an 8-person team spanning engineering, design, and QA while interfacing with Audacity's passionate open-source community.
What you'll do
- Define Audacity's product strategy, roadmap, and quarterly milestones for its transformation into a full DAW.
- Own backlog prioritization end-to-end, defining what gets built, deferred, or cut with clear rationale and acceptance criteria.
- Make timely product decisions regarding flows, edge cases, defaults, and quality bars to unblock engineering and design teams.
- Drive all releases end-to-end, managing quality standards, launch metrics, post-release analysis, and community communications.
- Directly lead, mentor, and grow an 8-person multidisciplinary team across engineering, design, and QA.
- Engage with the external open-source community and maintain transparent communication around product decisions and updates.
What you bring
- Proven track record as a Product Owner or Product Manager for a complex software product with a large user base.
- Deep understanding of audio production, editing, and DAW workflows.
- Experience working closely with engineers on multi-platform C++ desktop applications.
- Demonstrated people management experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
- End-to-end data ownership capabilities including instrumenting metrics and driving user growth.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to engage vocal external communities.
About Muse Group
Muse Group develops world-leading software, content, and services for musicians, creators, and composers, including popular products like Audacity, MuseScore, and Audio.com.
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