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Sr. Product Manager-Tech, Music Catalog

Amazon Music, San Francisco, CA, USA

Pay: $173,900-$235,200/yr

Job type: Full Time


Overview

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 will solve some of the most complex challenges in the music streaming space.

In this role you will 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.

Key Job Responsibilities

  • 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 second to all Amazon Music customers. We own critical platforms that make access to the Amazon Music Catalog highly available and accessible to everyone.

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 and 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.

Base salary range for this position: $173,900.00 – $235,200.00 USD annually. Compensation includes sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and comprehensive benefits. For more information on benefits, visit Amazon Benefits .

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