Brooklyn

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 some of the most exciting 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. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.Amazon Music is awash in data! To help make sense of it all, the CAST team within DISCO (Data, Insights, Science & Optimization) team accelerates and facilitates content analytics and provides independence to generate valuable insights in a fast, agile, and accurate way. This domain provides analytical support for the below topics within Amazon Music: Programming / Label Relations / PR / Stations / Livesports / Originals / Case & CAM. The CAST team enables repeatable, easy, in depth analysis of music customer behaviors. Our goal is to empower all teams at Amazon Music to make data driven decisions and effectively measure their results by providing high quality, high availability data, and democratized data access through self-service tools.If you love the challenges that come with big data and devops, then this role is for you. We collect billions of events a day, manage petabyte scale data on Redshift and S3, and develop data pipelines using Spark/Scala EMR, SQL based ETL, Airflow and Java services.We are looking for a talented, curious, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented Data Engineer, who knows how to take on big data challenges in an agile way. Duties include big data design and analysis, data modeling, and development, deployment, and operations of big data pipelines. The CAST team develops data specifically for a set of key business domains like personalization, playlist programming, merch, artists, and provides and protects a robust self-service core data experience for all internal customers. We deal in AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, EMR, EC2, DynamoDB, and Lambda. Key job responsibilities* Writing scripts, building microservices in AWS to increase team efficiency* Building and managing ETL pipelines in AWS to ingest data from external vendors* Assist the BIs on the team in managing our existing environment that consists of Redshift and SQL based pipelines. The activities around these systems will largely be well-defined via standard operation procedures (SOP) and typically involve approving data access requests, subscribing or adding new data to the environment, but there will be cases where creative problem-solving is required* SQL data pipeline management (creating or updating existing pipelines) and maintenance tasks on the Redshift cluster* Assist the team with the management of our next-generation AWS infrastructure. Tasks includes infrastructure monitoring via CloudWatch alarms, infrastructure maintenance through code changes or enhancements, and troubleshooting/root cause analysis infrastructure issues that arise, and in some cases this resource may also be asked to submit code changes based on infrastructure issues that arise.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 1+ years of data engineering experience- Experience as a data engineer or related specialty (e.g., software engineer, business intelligence engineer, data scientist) with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets- Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries with large-scale, complex datasets- Experience with one or more scripting language (e.g., Python, KornShell, Scala) ...

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 some of the most exciting 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. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.The Publisher and Songwriter Relations team works with music talent (i.e., songwriters, producers, and artists), music publishers, songwriter trade associations, record labels, performing rights organizations, and non-profit organizations to drive reciprocal value for songwriters and their business intermediaries, and Amazon Music and their customers. This is a cross-functional position that collaborates with other Amazon Music and pan-Amazon stakeholders (i.e., Prime Video, Twitch, Audible, Amazon Games, Studio126, Public Policy). The team is seeking a proactive, creative, detail-oriented, and highly organized Program Manager, who will focus on supporting: (i) partnership campaigns; (ii) content production; (iii) songwriter and producer playlisting; (iv) songwriter development programs; (v) the team’s operational needs; and (vi) music studio activations. The ideal candidate is passionate about songwriters and understands their foundational significance to the sustainability of the music industry.Key job responsibilities• Support project management for the team’s priority initiatives to drive growth, engagement, and brand awareness for Amazon Music• Execute mid-size opportunities independently in support of larger team’s goals• Coordinate integrated planning, execution, and cross-team support for current programs and new initiatives• Lead songwriter and producer playlisting and manage the Songwriters and Producers in-app homepage• Liaise with publishers, managers, and trade associations to strengthen and maintain strong relationships with songwriters and producers• Support production and marketing for the team’s content programs• Lead program management for songwriter development programs• Develop and assist in managing a reporting system that provides metrics to measure business impact • Assist in scaling the team’s programs globally by launching and operationalizing such in international territories in addition to the US, Canada, and United KingdomBASIC QUALIFICATIONS• Bachelor’s Degree• 4+ years of experience working directly with music talent• 4+ years of project or program management• Demonstrated program or project management success, leading campaigns from start to finish• Exceptional problem-solving, attention to detail, and ownership skills• Excellent verbal and written communication skills• Proactive drive to deliver results• Knowledge of the music creation process, understanding of the value chain, and passion for music creators, especially non-artist songwriters and producers• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams, both internally and externally• Comfortable working across international time zones • Experience collating and analyzing data generated from marketing campaigns ...