Senior Product Manager

Job Description

Senior Product Manager (Tech), Amazon Music

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

We are seeking a visionary Senior Technical Product Manager to join our team. This is an opportunity to define the future of podcasting and build innovative experiences that are used by millions of Amazon Music customers. As Senior Product Manager for Podcasts focused on Discovery technologies, you will harness the power of machine learning to help define and build new Amazon Music experiences that make it easier for customers to discover and fall in love with podcasts.

At Amazon Music, Product Managers are the CEO of the features they build and closely collaborate with Engineering, Project Management, Design, 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, have experience defining and delivering media/mobile/web products quickly and at scale, and be adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that customers love.

You will be able to boil down a big vision for the future into a simple set of features we can launch iteratively and experimentally, and know how to build support for their vision while taking input from other creative contributors. This role will own underlying discovery technologies for podcasts that power many of the key discovery features of our apps.

Key job responsibilities
• Partner with key stakeholders to define and track the product roadmap and key product performance indicators (KPIs)
• Translate customer insights and business strategy into clearly defined product requirements
• Work closely with Scientists, Engineering teams and Project Leads to develop and deliver innovative solutions
• Develop detailed business and technical requirements that can be used to create product specifications and design
• Managing prioritization and trade-offs to ensure delivery of a great customer experience
• Manage the project submission intake and prioritization process
• Manage day-to-day cross-functional relations, to ensure the product roadmap and prioritization are understood and implemented effectively
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity

About the team
Our team is focused on building an easy to use podcast experience that makes it simple to find the podcasts you already love and discover new podcasts you'll love just as much. We build experiences that work seamlessly across our mobile apps, web player, voice-forward audio engagement products on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, in car integrations and more. We are committed to serving podcasters as customers as well by helping them understand and grow their audiences. Amazon Music is available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music and podcasts to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in podcast listening, and customer engagement. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Technical product management experience
• Experience defining and delivering media, mobile or web products
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Highly proficient in both spoken and written English (Common European Framework of Reference C1)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience working with other product/tech teams who provide foundational capabilities for a product you own
• Proven ability to make smart features versus time-to-market trade-offs; experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value
• Experience delivering products in a complex and fast-paced environment using agile process and experimentation
• Experience with Machine Learning products
• Experience with statistical modeling / machine learning
• Experience in using Python, R, Julia, or Matlab or other statistical/machine learning software
• Highly proficient in both spoken and written Estonian (Common European Framework of Reference C1)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwzxxk-3-15-219-217-42 in your application.