Principal Product Manager, Tech

Job Description

Job summary

About ART19:

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. ART19, an Amazon company, provides cutting-edge tools for on-demand audio hosting, distribution, ad serving, and audience measurement. At the intersection of publishers and advertisers, the company powers hundreds of millions of podcast downloads every month for the industry's largest shows. ART19 enables publishers and advertisers to manage all content and ad operations in one place, offering best-in-class smart targeting capabilities, seamless integration with listening services, and a flexible infrastructure to continuously enhance revenue opportunities for its clients.

Key job responsibilities
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager – Tech to own the product vision for key aspects of ART19's offerings, helping define and build new experiences across content analytics, content management, ad tech, and more to make it easier for podcast publishers to grow their audience and monetize their content. At ART19, 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 products at scale, and be adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that our customers love. The ideal candidate will be able to boil down a big vision into a 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.

Additional locations include: [Los Angeles, California] [San Francisco, California]

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 8+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with end to end product delivery
• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience contributing to 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Track record of achievements. You've shipped products that have moved the needle on key business & customer metrics. You have a proven ability to make smart feature versus time-to-market trade-offs. You have demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision.
• Data-centric and analytical. You have experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value. You also leverage your strong analytical skills and ability to dive deep to develop a nuanced understanding of your product and customers, and to create effective strategies. You also have a demonstrated ability to make high quality high impact decisions in the absence of data and figure out how to gather data (through experiments, tests, etc) to support your decisions.
• Technical fluency. You have the ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, tradeoffs, and new opportunities with technical team members.
• Communication 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.
• Collaboration skills. You have a proven ability to work across functions and across marketplaces to influence senior leaders. You quickly earn the trust of people you work with.
• Customer experience intuition. You obsess about customers and can translate customer needs into crisp, detailed product requirements. You are able to develop innovative product solutions that are grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs.
• Ownership and bias for action. One of your favorite things to do as a product manager is to launch, learn and iterate. You know what matters most to customers and can simplify product requirements to deliver benefits to customers quickly. You identify opportunities and step up in various areas to turn those opportunities into realities.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1b36e-18-117-148-105-42 in your application.