Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune 500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.

The Amazon Music for Artists team operates at the intersection of artists and their fans. We are a start-up team that is heavily focused on innovation, and with our growth we are seeking a visionary to lead a team focused on the next generation of products that serve artists. This is an opportunity to help define the future of streaming, and Amazon Music's place in it.

The ideal candidate will have a track record of launching new businesses in the music industry. You are able to partner with product teams to define customer experience, marketing teams to drive artist and fan adoption of your products, and Finance to build P&Ls. You will be able to distill a bold vision for the future into a simple set of features we can launch iteratively and experimentally, and you know how to build support for their vision while taking input from other creative contributors. Experience working directly with artists and their teams is a plus, as is experience in the live events industry.

Key Responsibilities:
Define business and product strategies that enable artists to drive engagement with their fans through Amazon Music.
Lead our livestreaming team, partnering closely with Twitch, Amazon Live, and Prime Video to define the future of how artists can livestream through Amazon.
Secure and manage relationships with external industry partners, inclusive of record labels, artist managers, concert promoters and venues, and technology companies.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

15+ years overall business experience with 5 to 7 years of relevant senior level experience
Bachelors degree
Experience communicating complex business concepts in verbal and written form
Strong quantitative analysis, problem solving and project management skills
Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data
Experience presenting metrics and goal progress to stakeholders
Proven negotiating skills and influencing abilities with small and large partners

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Music industry experience across some combination of artist management, artist and label partnerships, live events, and music-focused technology products.
Analytical and quantitative skills; bias towards data-based decision making.
Relentless bias for action. One of your favorite things to do is launch, learn and iterate. You know what matters most to customers and can simplify product requirements to deliver benefits to customers as quickly as possible.
Proven ability to make smart feature (customer experience) versus time-to-launch trade-offs. You have experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value.
Proven ability to understand and solve complex business problems, leveraging your strong analytical skills and ability to dive deep, to create effective strategies.
Excellent communication skills, particularly written 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.
Strong collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work across functions and influence senior leaders. You quickly earn the trust of people you work with. People enjoy and have fun working with you.
Passionate about music. We obsess over and build products that we want to use ourselves.
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