Senior Product Manager, Content Discovery

Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.

ABOUT THE ROLE
Audible is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Content Discovery to define and build critical experiences that will help us match customers with content they love. As part of the Content Discovery team, you will help connect listeners with content they can fall in love with, and introduce them to new content - titles, creators, topics and genres they would not have found otherwise. As part of this team, you will make it fun and easy for listeners to explore content by turning their interests into pathways for discovery. Your mission will be to build features that delight every Audible member by making the process of finding their own content intuitive, effortless, and compelling.

ABOUT YOU
You have a thirst for continuous learning, commitment to action, an attitude that anything is possible, ability to execute cross functional projects and a relentless focus on the customer. You’re an accountable, hands on problem-solver with a positive attitude, letting nothing stand in the way. You have strong problem-solving skills, deep product management experience, and understand content discovery systems and applications. You have excellent communication skills and are a data-driven decision maker. You are ready to actively participate and engage with engineering teams, working as a cross-functional team to solve complex discovery problems for our customers. If you “love rolling your sleeves up and getting stuff done” and have a strong interest in content discovery, particularly in the media industry, this role is for you.

As a Senior Product Manager, Content Discovery you will...

• Define and execute the roadmap with clearly articulated and well measured goals
• Identify, define and execute on projects that elevate the usability, novelty, and comprehensiveness of discovery pathways
• Drive understanding across Audible of how and where discovery initiatives can bolster content discovery and engagement
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering, data science, UX, marketing, and other partner teams to create discovery experiences that are meaningful and delightful to consumers
• Contribute to the worldwide Discovery product strategy/roadmap
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Audible to optimize content classification, browsing, and conversion experiments and measure firmly understood hypotheses and business objectives
• Plan and prioritize the backlog for development teams to ensure maximum value in deliverables
• Interpret insights and business needs and transform into detailed product requirements documents and user stories for engineering teams to execute

ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). Some teams will work mostly at hub, some mostly at home and others hybrid. For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, analytical or related field
• 5+ years of experience in consumer product management, with 1+ year in complex organizations
• Experience in data driven hypothesis testing and experimentation
• Experience working with design teams to improve the user experience for customer facing products/features

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience in a consumer-facing machine learning oriented product management or analytical role
• Experience in content discovery powered by machine learning
• Experience working in navigational or browsing frameworks
• Content streaming/media/entertainment industry experience (books, music, movies, etc
• Ability to recognize the benefits and limitations of the technical design of a feature, and engage with engineering to make informed trade-off decisions
• Strong communication skills - Can provide information to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike and guide them to confidently informed decisions
• Ability to think creatively, execute on a roadmap, build consensus and momentum
• Strong analytical skills
• Data-driven: Define metrics for success and failure; ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to back up assumptions and make decisions
• Team player: Strong, demonstrated ability to rally and bring varying functional teams together

Audible is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Audible is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.