Are you interested in computational advertising and sponsored recommendations? Do you thrive in a fast-paced organization with a significant impact on hundreds of millions of customers? Do you love to innovate at the intersection of customer experience and high-scale machine-learning systems? If so, Amazon Sponsored Products Shopper Understanding and Response Prediction team could be the right place for you.
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. We are defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products to improve both shopper and advertiser experience. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we grow at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
We are looking for a seasoned Senior Product Manager – Technical for our Amazon Ads Response Prediction team to develop bespoke solutions to grow strategic classes of customer experiences. We build bespoke shopping experiences for Fashion shoppers interested in apparel, shoes, handbags, jewelry, luggage, or watches, who are looking for personalized, inspiring and fun shopping experiences. Through deep-understanding of Fashion shoppers unique shopping interest, we help shoppers discover new products, explore Fashion trends and styling ideas. We work hand-in-hand with engineers and applied scientists both within the team and across various retail partner orgs in Amazon to keep the retail experience relentlessly high. We are looking for an entrepreneurial product leader who loves to tackle ambiguous problems to deliver a tailored segmented shopping experience. This is a high-impact role that requires strategic vision and big-picture thinking, as well as sharp execution, technical depth, analytical rigor, and excellent communication.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Product Manager Technical, you will work closely with business stakeholders, machine learning scientists and engineers to
• Develop product thinking and roadmap to optimize sponsored product and whole site shopper experience for Fashion shopping.
• Obsess over your customers and work backwards to define tenets, customer experiences, long-term goals, focus areas and key success metrics.
• Develop and present working backwards documents and product plans (PRFAQs).
• Drive intake, planning, and prioritization of feature and enhancement requests in close partnership with engineering, science, and product partners across Amazon.
• Influence senior leaders across Amazon by proactively communicating your vision, reporting plans and progress, and aligning with Amazon’s core leadership principles.
• Lead cross-functionally to ensure the product vision is implemented effectively.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
– 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
– Bachelor’s degree
– Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
– Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
– Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
– Experience managing technical products or online services
– Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions.
– Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives.
– Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
– High attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
– Experience with online advertising, search, recommendation systems.
– Experience in working with machine learning scientists and engineers.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.