Product Owner (Digital Asset Management)

Digital Asset Management (DAM) Product Owner
Location: UK / Hybrid

Full-Time / Permanent
Business Area: Audio | Reporting into: Group Technology Director – Audio

Bauer Media Audio is building the future of content creation and delivery — and we need a Product Owner to help us manage the engine behind it all: our Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform.

As we roll out our new cloud-based broadcasting solution across nine European markets, we’re also revolutionising how our audio assets are stored, searched, shared, and reused. This role will own the vision, evolution, and delivery of our DAM solution to empower creators, producers, and editorial teams across Bauer Media.

Your Mission:

You’ll be the champion of all things DAM – ensuring our content is easily accessible, consistently structured, and scalable across markets. Sitting at the heart of our technology transformation, you’ll gather requirements, manage priorities, and work closely with our technology partners to deliver a solution that adds real value to our creative workflows.

• Own the Product Vision: Define and evolve the roadmap for the DAM system to support Bauer’s content creation strategy.
• Gather & Translate Requirements: Collaborate with editorial, technical, and commercial teams to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Drive Agile Delivery: Work closely with internal delivery teams and third-party vendors to manage backlog, prioritise features and ensure successful rollouts.
• Ensure Adoption & Training: Build relationships with users across all nine markets, supporting rollout, adoption and ongoing training where needed.
• Data & Metadata Governance: Ensure the system promotes consistency, discoverability and usage through strong metadata frameworks and user practices.
• Integration Oversight: Ensure seamless integration between the DAM and other tools in our broadcasting and digital ecosystem (e.g., playout, production, CMS, archives).

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Manager for a Digital Asset Management platform, ideally within media, broadcast, or digital publishing.
• Strong understanding of asset workflows, metadata management and content lifecycle.
• Experience working in Agile environments with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — you’ll be the bridge between creative teams and tech.
• A strategic mindset with attention to detail — balancing user needs with system scalability and governance.

• Organised, user-focused and technically curious
• A strong communicator and translator between creative and technical stakeholders
• Collaborative, with the ability to lead without authority
• Passionate about content, systems, and structure
• Fluent in Business English

DAM isn’t just a system — it’s the backbone of how we create and distribute content. In this role, you'll be empowering Bauer's content creators across Europe to work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 25 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.