Principal Product Manager - Tech, Amazon Music AI and Personalization

Overview

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 the 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. Learn more at

The Amazon Music Personalization and AI Innovation team’s vision is to offer Amazon customers delightfully personalized audio experiences by building world class customer and language understanding, content recommendations and experience optimization platforms. The Foundations team focuses on providing key platform offerings that allow Amazon Music to scale its algorithms and systems to billions of events while delivering the highest possible quality for customers. The team develops sophisticated models, scaled platforms, and flexible capabilities, offering them to internal teams and experimenting with them across experiences to improve the quality. We are seeking an experienced Principal Technical Product Manager to drive the product roadmap and strategy for the foundations team.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy across two core teams: the underlying infrastructure and capabilities used to incubate, experiment, and scale, and the development of quality assessment approaches to understand what works in customer experiences and why.
• Define a clear vision and strategy, make prioritization decisions, and invest in the next generation of models and features; deploy them across experiences to improve personalization.
• Aid in the development and growth of the product team and overall office as the most senior product leader in Berlin.
• Run prioritization discussions with the local team, conduct tech deep dives, and help launch experiments.
• Perform product discovery to understand internal and external customer problems and write think big documents proposing ambitious solutions and ideas.
• Lead strategy and execution to deliver value for Amazon Music; celebrate wins with the team.
• Interact with internal customers on the US west coast or cross-org teams; travel to LA, SF, or Seattle offices to meet partners roughly twice a year.

Qualifications

• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience in technical product management, program management, or engineering.
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.
• Experience with end-to-end product delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working directly with engineers on product enhancements.
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated experience driving product roadmap and strategy at scale.
• Experience working with scaled GenAI applications.

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