Amazon Ads is one of Amazon’s fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Physical Stores Advertising team focuses on developing engaging advertising products for customers that shop at physical stores, such as Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Style, and Amazon Go, as well as third-party stores not owned by Amazon. We’re tackling a relatively new area for Amazon Ads and building technology from the ground up. We own building, launching, and commercializing innovative ad products in-store and do not shy away from technical challenges. Our team is responsible for full-stack implementation and integration of new advertising products, which power the ad content, targeting, and attribution across our advertising network with physical stores. We utilize the latest in cloud technology to build out products supporting custom experiences, both in browser and on mobile platforms, using custom hardware and android operating systems. We are also experimenting in new areas, leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and big data, to provide unique experiences for physical store shoppers and advertisers alike.
Key job responsibilities
- Own product discovery, exploration, and building for new advertising opportunities in grocery using coupons.
- Deal with direct senior leadership requests and ideas for projects that look +10 years ahead.
- Drive strategic and technical alignment with partner teams spanning multiple lines of business, including Ads and Physical Stores.
- Partner and lead product development with a high performing engineering team.
- Lead weekly business reviews and manage to a core set of metrics and KPIs for the business.
- Maintain strong business & technical vision for your teams and consistently push teams to deliver with the highest standards.
- Lead and influence across different organizations and align diverse teams to a common goal.
A day in the life
As Principal Product Management – Technical, you will lead through influence, collaborating with a team of software developers to deliver on your product vision and roadmap for Physical Store Advertising. You will thrive in leading complex product initiatives across internal teams and senior stakeholders to prioritize features while spearheading the definition of new capabilities through product and technical design documents. You will have a high level of comfort with ambiguity, a deeply analytical mindset with the ability to investigate complex challenges, and can effectively influence across organizations. You work backwards from the customer, dive deep into data to understand the issues, and drive product development to deliver collaboratively with your teams and partners.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience technical product management
- 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
- 4+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- Experience with Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) advertising
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $144,000/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.