Senior Manager, Spoken Word, Spoken Word

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Senior Manager – Spoken Word, German Market

You will be the local leader responsible for growing Amazon Music’s spoken word business across podcasts and audio books in the German market. The role owns how spoken word shows up for customers from discovery and engagement to long‑term listening and how Amazon Music partners with creators, publishers, and the wider audio industry in Germany.

Munich (preferred);
Berlin open for consideration.

• Own the overall Spoken Word strategy for Germany spanning podcasts and audio books, translating global priorities into clear local plans, goals, and execution.
• Act as the senior market leader for Spoken Word in Germany, building and maintaining deep relationships with top creators, publishers, networks, and industry partners to grow listening and engagement on Amazon Music.
• Drive audience growth by identifying opportunities across content, product, and marketing and working cross‑functionally to turn those opportunities into delivered outcomes.
• Partner closely with global and regional teams across Amazon Music Product, Content, Creator, Marketing, Industry Relations, Audible PR, and Analytics to ensure a cohesive data‑informed approach.
• Use customer and performance data to guide decisions while being comfortable making judgment calls where data is incomplete or signals are mixed.
• Oversee high‑impact initiatives such as creator partnerships, launches, campaigns, and industry moments that meaningfully move awareness, trust, and consumption of spoken‑word audio.
• Represent Amazon Music Spoken Word in Germany externally, shaping narratives with press and industry stakeholders and advocating for Amazon’s strategic priorities.
• Serve as the voice of the German market internally, surfacing opportunities, risks, and learnings to inform broader spoken‑word strategy and roadmap decisions.

You’ll operate at the intersection of content, product, marketing, and partnerships, translating global strategy into local execution that drives measurable listener growth. This is a highly visible role with broad ownership: you’ll set direction, represent Spoken Word externally, and work closely with senior stakeholders across Amazon to shape how podcasts and audio books come together as a single compelling customer experience.

Love Podcasts & Audio books? Come join Amazon Music where we are reinventing how people discover and experience spoken‑word music and culture within a community of passionate fans.

• Experience in the entertainment industry, preferably within podcasts or music
• Experience working cross‑functionally across marketing, product management, analytics, UX, and research
• Experience building and growing relationships with internal and external partners
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English and German (C1/C2)
• Experience in data analysis and leveraging analytics to make decisions
• Experience building, executing, and scaling cross‑functional programs or marketing campaigns from concept to completion
• Experience in podcasts, audio books, or spoken‑word content businesses

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