We are seeking a Senior Product Manager - Tech to lead product strategy and innovation for the Amazon Music Catalog team. This is a high-impact opportunity at the intersection of music metadata, rights management, and large-scale distributed systems, where you'll solve some of the most complex challenges in the music streaming space.
In this role, you'll partner with Engineering, Data Science, and cross-functional teams across Amazon Music to build catalog systems that scale across hundreds of millions of daily updates and serve tens of thousands of requests per second. You will shape the long-term vision for catalog management, balancing data quality, system performance, rights compliance, and customer experience.
You are customer-obsessed and highly technical. You dive deep into data, understand distributed systems architecture, spot opportunities to improve catalog accuracy and availability, then build solutions that delight customers and enable innovation across Amazon Music.
Key job responsibilities As a Sr. Product Manager - Technical on the Amazon Music Catalog team, you will:
- Define and drive the roadmap for Music catalog systems to ensure data quality, completeness, and accuracy at scale.
- Own the strategy for how catalog data is computed, persisted, and vended to downstream services across Amazon Music and other Amazon services.
- Drive innovation in metadata enrichment, leveraging machine learning, automation, and data science to solve complex problems.
- Define success metrics and establish mechanisms to monitor catalog health, data accuracy, system performance, and customer satisfaction.
- Communicate strategy and progress effectively to senior leaders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
- Champion customer experience by ensuring catalog systems enable seamless music discovery, accurate search results, and reliable playback.
About the team The Amazon Music Catalog team is responsible for persisting, computing, reconciling and vending Music rights and metadata to other teams and services across Amazon. We process hundreds of millions of updates per day and our services serve tens of thousands of requests per secs to all Amazon Music Customers. We own critical platforms that makes access to the Amazon Music Catalog highly available and accessible to everyone. We are solving world class problems that haven't been tackled before!
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. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience managing technical products or online services
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree
- Experience managing cross-functional projects and initiatives
- Experience working with distributed systems, data pipelines, or large-scale data processing platforms.
- Experience in the music industry, media technology, or content management systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence senior leadership.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, San Francisco - 173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually