Principal Pm-T, Music and Livestream Merch

Job Description

Job summary
This role can be based in Culver City, CA or Seattle, WA or New York, NY.

Love music? Want to build consumer-facing products that touches the lives of millions of people? Combine your passions and come reinvent music experiences with us! We're working hard, having fun, and making history here at Amazon Music.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will help define and build new features for artists and fans across Amazon Music, Amazon.com, and more. Product Managers in our teams are the CEO of the features they build and closely collaborate with Engineering, Project Management, Design, BI, and more, to set strategy for, define, design, and directly manage all aspects of the customer experience. A successful candidate will be customer obsessed, highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively in a matrix organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that customers love. The candidate will need to be a self-starter who is able to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment and think big while paying careful attention to detail.

Amazon Music is looking for a driven, strategic, customer-centric Product Leader to help reinvent music experiences and grow our Music Merch business. Music and fashion have been intertwined for decades, and this Product Leader will create new fan and artist experiences that authentically connect artists and fans on Amazon-including new integration and features within Amazon Music, Amazon.com, Amazon Music For Artists, and building shoppable content experiences for livestreams.

We take pride in having a fast-paced, collaborative culture and seek team members that contribute to this environment with their style, experience and passion. If you think you are the right fit for the position, don't miss out on the chance to grow with us.

Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will excel in the following areas:
• Customer Insight & Innovation: You live and breathe customer insights. You and your team develop bold, innovative product solutions that are grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs.
• Product Delivery: Define and own your team's short and long-term product roadmap, including business cases, user stories, customer experience, and rapid delivery in an Agile environment.
• Business Growth: Managing the complete business of your product area including establishing key metrics, setting and meeting goals on customers, customer
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Foster tight partnerships with key stakeholders across Amazon. This role in particular requires strong relationships with peers on several teams.
• Communication: Proactively communicate your teams' plans and accomplishments in both verbal and written narratives to ensure alignment with senior leadership.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 8+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years program or product management experience in consumer facing technology industry
• Experience working on agile enabled teams
• Analytical and quantitative skills; bias towards data-based decision making
• Track record of achievements. You have shipped multiple products that successfully boosted active user numbers in a sustainable way
• Excellent customer experience intuition. You obsess about customers and have the demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into crisp, detailed product requirements.
• Relentless bias for action. One of your favorite things to do as a product manager to launch, learn and iterate. You know what matters most to customers and can simplify product requirements to deliver benefits to customers as quickly as possible.
• Proven ability to make smart features (customer experience) versus time-to-market trade-offs. You have experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value.
• Proven ability to understand and solve complex business problems, leveraging your strong analytical skills and ability to dive deep, to create effective strategies.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly written skills. You are as comfortable speaking in front of the company at an all-hands meeting as you are writing a detailed six-page narrative on your products that you can defend with the highest levels of senior leadership.
• Basic technical fluency. You understand how your products get built and can use that knowledge to work with your engineering partners to make smart decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work across functions and influence senior leaders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Successful track record in a high energy environment where tactical and strategic activities are expected to be driven in parallel.
• Effective proficiency in analytical tools including Microsoft Excel, SQL and statistical software.
• Experience with improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma.
• Effective organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management and meeting deadlines.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g32k5x-18-117-152-251-42 in your application.