Description
Love music, innovation, and driving scale? Want to build both consumer and developer-facing products that touch the lives of millions of people? Would you like to spend some days building technical products for developers and others working directly with partners to bring new, innovative experiences to life for music fans? Like managing team members across multiple domains, with diverse backgrounds and skillsets? If utilizing a wide mix of product-tech skills, managing breadth, and working in music sounds interesting, join us to help reinvent how customers listen to music/audio!
The Amazon Music Business Development team is looking for a Senior Manager, Product Management - Technical to lead our Partner & Developer products and services. Your team drives the integration of Amazon Music on 3rd party devices and applications through self-service developer tools, solution architecture services, and custom/bespoke solutions. This role drives the roadmap for a set of core software services for partners (e.g. 3P APIs, SDKs, onboarding tools) but also must index highly on innovation/flexibility when building new, custom integrations that haven't been done before, particularly in spaces like social and gaming. The team is comprised of product, engineering, and solutions architecture and works closely with BD, partner marketing, UX, legal, CAM, and the broader product/engineering organization, in addition to working directly with 3P partners. This is a global team that is spread across the US, Mexico, and Europe. This is a key leadership position on the AM BD team, and in addition to overseeing your team you will help the broader BD organization operate more efficiently (owning mechanisms, helping to establish goals, and overseeing OP1/OP2) and helping up-level product-led thinking across the board.
Key job responsibilities
Develop long-term product strategy for 3rd party developer services and tools, which includes APIs, SDKs/Toolkits, and Self-Service Onboarding.
Define and launch new game-changing products and services that drive acquisition, engagement and retention for Amazon Music through partnerships and support our BD strategy
Lead a geographically dispersed team of solution architects, engineers, product manager and technical program manager
Anticipate future opportunities based on evaluating the business opportunity and application of new and emerging technologies and changing digital media consumption.
Generate buy-in for the product vision with leadership, partner teams and partners
Create and maintain an optimized and logically sequenced roadmap
Manage prioritization and trade-offs to ensure delivery of a great customer experience
Anticipate and resolve strategic issues that impair the team's ability to deliver
Leading cross-functionally to ensure the product vision is implemented effectively
A day in the life
In this role, you will drive the product strategy, vision, and delivery for new partner experience to be consumed by customers as well as our partners. As part of the global business development and partnerships team, you will lead the product and engineering team and take on challenging and varied product opportunities with autonomy and high visibility. You will work closely with business development, design, marketing and other product and engineering teams to bring new products to market.
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online.
About the team
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 a highly innovative and diverse global team which is based across countries and continents. The team is fast-paced, nimble and cross-functional, comprised of Business Development, Partner Marketing, Solution Architects, Operations and now Product and Engineering. We work on a wide range of partnerships that enable millions of customers to discover and enjoy a delightful Amazon Music experience anytime, anywhere as well as driving growth for the business.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Atlanta, GA, USA | Culver City, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of team management experience
2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
8+ years of technical product or program management experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
Preferred Qualifications
Experience delivering consumer software products and services in a high growth environment
Experience building long-term product strategies for 3rd party developer services and tools
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $158,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $307,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
