Position: Principal Product Manager, Spoken Word Audio

Company: Amazon.com

Location: Seattle, WA

The Principal Product Manager of Spoken Word Audio will own establishing and driving the direction of a number of businesses and products.  The role will involve a wide variety of tasks, some of which include market research, competitive analysis, entry strategy assessment, financial analysis and forecasting, marketing and merchandising strategies, analyzing pricing alternatives as well as driving pricing strategies.  Keys to success in this role include exceptional research, analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, and, the strongest candidates will posses past experience managing and driving a wide variety of projects.
 
The Principal Product Manager of Spoken Word Audio will be responsible for driving the creation of innovative and compelling consumer facing spoken word audio products and services.  The successful candidate will report to the Vice President of Spoken Word Audio.
 
Position Responsibilities:

- Drive the strategy, creation, launch and operation of innovative, customer facing, spoken word audio businesses and services.
- Work effectively with other groups within Amazon in order to deliver spoken word audio products and services that span multiple organizations, areas of business, and geographies.
- Drive primary research in order to understand industry trends in the spoken work audio space.
- Own primary analysis of research findings in order to address customer needs, business goals, and the translation of feature concepts into prioritized product requirements on/off of Amazon.com.
- Defining secure, scalable, and low-latency spoken word audio products and services.
- Deliver spoken word audio businesses and services in all geographies that warrant investment.
- Define and meet/exceed SLAs (Service Level Agreements).
 
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be a combination of business leader, visionary, inventor, builder, and operator. They must be passionate about the opportunity to work for Amazon.com and the prospect of inventing new spoken word audio products and services for use by consumers globally.
 
The ideal candidate will possess all of the following experience and characteristics:

- Product & Customer Experience Genetics - Extraordinary customer experience judgment.  Ability to think both strategically and tactically.
- Initiative & Work Ethic — Takes initiative without direction.  Does not wait to be asked to act on appropriate work and focuses aggressively on driving results.  Works hard and displays intense commitment. Is willing to go above and beyond when required.  - Resourceful. Maintains effective pace and produces conclusive, measurable results within time commitments. Calm in the face of fast-moving and hectic environments.  Builds things that work.
- Analytical Thinking — Proven analytical and quantitative skills.  Ability to refine metrics and methodologies used in collecting data for supporting business cases. Understands analytical testing methodology.  Thoroughly thinks through problems to come up with solutions. Applies fair and consistent criteria. Gathers the right input/data. Uses intuition. Is decisive. Makes good decisions when analysis of data is not sufficient to reach a conclusion.
- Communication — Actively and effectively communicates in all directions; up & down the chain of command and with disparate teams.  Able to effectively facilitate meetings will all levels of internal/external management.  Strong writing and presentation skills; crisp, clear and accurate.
- Business Acumen — Ability to anticipate and develop business priorities for future action. Ability to assess broader and deeper impact of decisions on the business. Able to negotiate contract terms with external parties and works toward execution of terms.  Develops original ideas, approaches, and solutions to typical, unusual, or difficult situations or problems.  Proven ability to make smart trade-offs on time-to-market versus features and to respond to competitive threats/opportunities.
- Brand Knowledge — Implements the brand expression. Develops and implements creative solutions.
- Product Knowledge — Expert knowledge in domain. Maintains network of contacts in domain for future business prospects. Ability to provide input regarding product positioning across multiple domains.
- Technical Acumen — Able to determine viability of new initiatives. Understands cross-functional requirements. Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs and opportunistic new ideas with technical employees.  - Capable of writing and presenting an NPI proposal.
Project Management — Manages the planning process, executes and drives results on large-scale projects or multiple smaller projects. Delegates assignments amongst team. Leads resource allocation for project/team.  Ability to lead multiple simultaneous product development efforts across disparate organizations.

Candidate Educational & Experience Requirements:
- BA/ BS required
- MBA preferred
- Startup experience highly desirable
- 5 or more years of product management, financial analysis, and marketing experience
- E-commerce experience is a preferred

In joining our team, you'll enjoy a competitive salary, great benefits, a creative and comfortable work environment, and the exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and growing technology company.
 
To apply:  Please e-mail your resume to 029872-resumes@amazon.com and include "Digital Music News" in the subject line.

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