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Senior Director
Amazon
New York, NY, United States
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Senior Director, Audible Studios
Audible is looking for a talented individual to help us develop exciting content for Audible Studios. Our objective is to create innovative audio content that expands our portfolio beyond our current partnerships and entices listeners with new types of content. This position reports to the Publisher for Audible Studios.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Drive growth and creativity of Audible Studios publishing.
• Generate ideas – lots of them – to further push the boundaries of audiobooks.
• Be a key part of a team of high-powered editors who will develop projects, and recruit and work with writers from across the profession to create innovative audiobooks.
• Use high business and creative judgment to make consistently good content investment decisions on the behalf of the customer and the business.
• Coordinate effectively among cross-functional teams, particularly Audible’s audio production, merchandising, marketing, and public relations teams.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Significant experience acquiring and editing longform and book-length content.
• Demonstrated experience and success as a creative juggernaut who is excited about blazing a new trail as Audible continues its mission – to unleash the power of the spoken word.
• Possess a record of being a visionary with a focus on customer obsession. You delight in disrupting the status quo.
• Ability to lead in a high-energy, high-intensity and rapidly evolving environment under aggressive deadlines and demonstrated success driving results from cross-functional team.
• Comfort using data analytics to drive business strategy.
• A passion for the narrative design and well-wrought prose and an equivalent passion for translating writing into powerful spoken words.
• Relevant and appropriate educational background.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
BENEFITS
We have a comprehensive benefits package but here are some of the fun perks:
• Daily catered lunch, Monday breakfast and juice bar, snacks and Friday happy hours
• Free onsite gym and 25% fitness reimbursement
• Seasonal sports clubs - basketball, hockey, soccer, volleyball, softball and more
• Company sponsored events
• Transit reimbursement, paid parking and shuttle service
• Tuition assistance
• Annual Amazon discount
• Meaningful community involvement opportunities including mentoring interns, literacy tutoring and Audible Scholars, along with collaboration on start-up projects incubating in Newark Venture Partners
Audible, Inc. is the world’s largest seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information and educational programming. Since inventing and commercializing the first portable digital audio player in 1997, our focus on technological innovation and superior programming has earned us millions of subscribers around the world. We’re an Amazon subsidiary with a presence on four different continents, yet we maintain a startup vibe and small company feel. We offer more than 350,000 downloadable audiobooks, audio editions of periodicals, and other programs, and an escalating array of listening products that enrich daily life for a growing population of people who want to be more productive, well-informed, and thoughtfully entertained.
Audible is an Equal Opportunity-Employer-Minority/ Female/ Disability/ Vet