US Latin Music Programmer, Amazon Music US Latin Team

Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

We are looking for a highly motivated and ambitious US Latin Music Programming Lead to join our team!

Then you could be the right candidate to lead our programming efforts to build and grow an immersive and customer-obsessed Music Streaming Service.

• Serve as Amazon Music's US Latin Music expert.
• Be the voice of new music releases and trends internally and externally across several genres.
• Gather, analyze, report, and act on listener engagement and content usage data.
• Obsess over the quality of the music experience of our service, identifying, influencing and actioning improvements for our customers.
• Apply extensive music knowledge to create hand-curated experiences specifically for Amazon Music's unique audience.
• Use a deep understanding of Latin music genres, subgenres, and microgenres to inform programming.
• Use a combination of good judgment and data to identify and execute on opportunities to create new playlists and stations.
• Enact a plan to improve existing programmed content through regular updates.
• Execute towards team goals for increased engagement and, working with your manager, generate a plan to achieve those goals.
• Develop and manage programming strategies for frontline and catalog content, and seasonal campaigns.
• Apply knowledge of customer behavior to ensure positive CX across visual and voice.

• You are responsible for delivering difficult and creative music programming to achieve shared goals. Programming strategies may not be defined.
• Your work impacts the customer-listening experience (CLX) at the family level (i.e. genre ladder, theme, campaign) at the local level, and may impact at the regional and/or international level.
• You are able to influence partner teams and coordinate with them on planning (e.g., cross-functional events, seasonal programming, product launches, etc.). You understand and can communicate the context behind the team’s programming goals, objectives, and challenges.
• You apply your knowledge of cultural and/or music trends and the industry landscape to make informed programming strategy recommendations.
• You look for opportunities to improve cross-team processes and your team’s operational excellence.
• When faced with initiative limitations, you are able to show good judgement in making trade-offs between time vs. quality. You understand and show good judgement in making trade-offs between local programming and international programming.

About the team

• Fluency in Spanish and English written and oral communication.
• Encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of Latin music.
• In-depth knowledge across a range of Latin music styles, and of current trends and history in both music and the music industry.
• Proven experience in using data and knowledge to drive decision-making in music curation.
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables, and deliver on-time, at pace.
• Ability to create content for a specific audience beyond your own musical taste.
• Proficiency in MS Excel (Vlookup, Pivot Tables).
• A lot of initiative, creativity, and team spirit.
• Network in US Latin Music Industry and/or Media, especially in Mexican Music.
• Exceptional Spanish and English communication and writing skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Gen Z music preferences.
• Experience from working in Music Streaming environments.

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