![]() ![]() ![]() What’s your educational background? Do you use your degree from Blair in your position? In 2005, I took my first 9 to 5 job managing the IMAX theater and planetarium at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. My first job out of Blair was playing saxophone with a 15-piece salsa band that played nightclubs throughout the Southeast. The store had a tiny footprint, so we were always talking with our customers to make sure we carried the products they wanted, in hopes that they wouldn’t get in their cars and drive to one of the larger grocery stores in town. I spent a lot of rainy Sundays rotating apples, stocking craft beer and refilling the bulk granola containers. It was a neighborhood store where we knew all of our customers by name and most customers carried a tab with the store. On the weekends and evenings during high school, I worked at a small hippie grocery store and fruit stand in North Seattle. I also help design the technology platform that enables us to grow our business quickly and have the flexibility to keep up in an industry faced with rapid change and innovation. We have a catalog of more than 35 million tracks, so I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can maintain a high level of quality for our customers across a huge catalog. My team manages Amazon’s digital supply chain, acquiring audio music files and metadata from record labels, and then presenting those products to customers in ways that make it easy for them to find the music they want to listen to and to discover new music. Jack Rutledge (Photo credit: Adair Freeman Rutledge) Learn how Jack Rutledge, BMus’03, MBA’09, a Blair School of Music undergraduate, turned his talent for music and business to become head of catalog and selection for Amazon Music. ![]()
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