Senior Product Leader, Royalties & Partner Experience

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 228,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Music is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Management - Technical to own the royalty payment ecosystem and define a unified partner experience across labels, publishers, and distributors. You will lead an established team, drive strategy, and partner with engineering, finance, and legal to deliver scalable, self-service reporting and payment solutions.

The role requires extensive experience in technical product management, cross-functional leadership, and building systems that improve

Qualifications

• 6+ years of team management experience.
• 2+ years of end-to-end product delivery experience.
• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Amazon Music's royalty payment ecosystem — spanning accruals, reconciliation, payment processing, reporting, and partner-facing experiences across 45+ countries
• Lead a team of high-caliber product managers through innovation, driving development of new products and experiences
• Drive financial automation programs that reduce manual effort, improve payment accuracy, and scale across geographies and content types
• Serve as the primary product liaison across Content Acquisition, Global Finance, Tax, Accounting, Legal, Label Relations, and Publishing Operations
• Own operational SLAs for month-end payment cycles
• Define and execute programs that address executive-level goals around payment automation, reconciliation accuracy, and partner transparency
• Manage relationships with label and publisher partners on reporting, payment timelines, and data quality
• Drive product strategy for partner-facing reporting and data platforms, shifting from bespoke delivery to scalable self-service experiences
• Define the vision for a unified partner interface across Amazon Music and drive alignment across teams that shape the partner experience
• Evaluate opportunities to improve the partner experience by working across supply chain functions and adjacent teams
• Build relationships across adjacent teams to identify integration points and drive alignment on the partner experience
• Own monthly close operations — ensuring Amazon Music closes its books on time every month across royalties, revenue reconciliation, and partner payments with zero tolerance for missed SLAs
• Drive end-to-end delivery across product and engineering teams, holding the org accountable for shipping against roadmap commitments
• Build and maintain critical relationships across a broad stakeholder landscape: Content Acquisition, Finance, Accounting, Legal, Tax, Label Relations, Publishing Operations, and Engineering leadership
• Serve as the trusted point of contact for major label partners — owning the executive relationship on reporting, payments, and operational issues
• Navigate competing priorities across 10+ internal teams while maintaining trust, responsiveness, and delivery momentum
• Influence without authority across organizational boundaries — this role depends on credibility and relationships as much as positional power
• Manage a multi-disciplinary organization spanning product leaders, engineering managers, vendor operations, and technical program management
• Build, mentor, and develop senior leaders — setting the bar for product and technical excellence across the org
• Set clear vision and priorities that enable the team to operate with autonomy while maintaining alignment to organizational goals
• Foster a culture of ownership, customer obsession, and operational excellence
• 6+ years of team management experience
• 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience delivering consumer software products and services in a high growth environment

Skills

Team management

Product delivery

Roadmap strategy

Engineering collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Music is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Management - Technical to own the royalty payment ecosystem and define a unified partner experience across labels, publishers, and distributors. You will lead an established team, drive strategy, and partner with engineering, finance, and legal to deliver scalable, self-service reporting and payment solutions.

The role requires extensive experience in technical product management, cross-functional leadership, and building systems that improve