Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager - Technical to invent new advertising recommendation experiences to help brands selling on Amazon realize their full potential. Working backwards from our brands, you will need to define a vision and roadmap that provides advertisers with the insight and recommendations they need to optimize and orchestrate our full suite of ad products. You'll collaborate with a team of software and data engineers to leverage the latest big data technologies to deliver on this vision. Success will require balancing big, industry changing goals with a bias for action and consistent delivery of advertiser value. You will also need to adeptly use data and compelling advertiser feedback to communicate and build support for your vision with partner teams and leadership. We are growing very fast and breaking new ground, so the ideal candidate is invigorated by an environment of ambiguity and constant change.

Over the last year, advertisers have given our product launches rave reviews we've delivered significant YoY business growth. We've just scratched the surface.

Key job responsibilities

• Working backwards from our advertisers, define an industry leading vision and roadmap.
• Evangelize the vision with partner teams and leadership.
• Be the expert on advertiser optimization needs.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists and engineers to ideate, design, develop and deliver great advertiser experiences.
• Inspire the team to continually invent and simplify solutions to complex problems.
• Vigorously and consistently refine product definitions to deliver faster, without sacrificing the advertiser experience.
• Coordinate with partner teams to ensure we deliver seamless experiences across multiple advertiser touch points.
• Own the user experience; write working backwards documents; define user stories and product requirements;
• Define success metrics for features, track performance, and deliver results.

About the team

The Recommendation Optimization Experience (ROX) team helps advertisers achieve their business goals by delivering insights and recommendations via Console and APIs that are personalized to the advertiser, easy to understand, contextually relevant, simple to adopt, and fully optimized to grow the advertiser’s business.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ 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 technical product management
• Experience leading cross-organizational programs and setting and holding teams and individuals to timelines and deliverables without explicit authority
• Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.