Principal Product Manager, Creator Products

Amazon • Culver City, CA

3d

About The Position

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we
work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio
storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and
inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower
and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.

ABOUT THIS ROLE
As the Principal Product Manager, Creator Products at Audible, you will be
responsible for supporting one or more of Audible’s creator products including
the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), one of the largest spoken word audio
marketplaces in the world.

ABOUT YOU
You are an entrepreneurial product thinker with proven experience building and
launching creator or consumer-facing products at scale. You are a data-driven
leader, with experience establishing and measuring impactful KPIs and working
through complex problems. You are a natural collaborator, with experience
aligning multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams. You are an independent
problem-solver that can confidently lead teams through ambiguity. You are
customer obsessed and excited to build products for creators, including authors,
publishers, and narrators.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of product management experience
• Experience building and leading complex products through the full lifecycle, including roadmap strategy, cross-functional coordination, and managing multiple moving pieces simultaneously

Nice To Haves

• MBA or relevant experience
• Experience in the creator space
• Product experience with creators, rights holders, spoken word technology or in two-sided marketplaces
• Go-to-market experience with creator tech products
• Demonstrated data driven product leadership
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills that allow you to work with both technical and non-technical individuals
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, autonomously, and cross-functionally

Responsibilities

• Advocate for, and obsess over Audible’s creators acting as the authority for creator and customer experience
• Write and communicate functional requirements, partnering with various product marketing, UX and insight stakeholders
• Use lean development tools, like experimentation and rapid prototyping, to drive teams towards strategic product decisions
• Develop and own a product roadmap, demonstrating a strong focus on KPIs and measurement
• Frame and lead discussions with key business and technical stakeholder to assess opportunities, make data-driven recommendations, and build consensus ahead of important investment decisions
• Be the authority on the creator experience that you manage
• Understand your products strengths and weaknesses
• Find the right opportunities to innovate and enhance the experience with the right combination of essential and magical
• Manage dependencies and unblock your teams to optimize discovery and delivery work
• Proactively communicate product metrics and insights, showcasing a deep understanding of how your features are benefiting customers and the business
• Support building the long-term strategy and roadmap for Creator Products, helping to set the vision for how Audible supports global creators
• Identify new end-to-end Creator Product opportunities across creation, growth, and monetization space
• Drive alignment by leading tradeoff discussions that produce actionable decisions
• Be the authority on the customer experiences that you manage
• Find the right opportunities to innovate and skillfully balance big ideas with incremental impact for your customers
• Continually monitor industry trends and technology advancements to ensure Audible is delivering the highest value for our creators’ evolving needs

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level