Our mission is to be the most trusted and delightfully easy purchase experience on Earth for the tens of millions of customers that engage with features from Cart through order confirmation on any given day. We have out-sized ability for customer and business impact and own the mission critical distributed systems and infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers across the company.
We care deeply about our people and our proud of our commitment to both building and maintaining an inclusive environment where everyone can be successful. Each month, we dedicate a full, meeting-free day towards learning and development; encouraging team members to innovate and focus on the work they’re most excited about, watch broadcast videos, file patent ideas, learn new skills, take courses, work on career growth, innovate along with our teams, and take extra time to celebrate our successes.
Key job responsibilities
What you will do: You will establish the vision, continuously identify iterative opportunities to further raise the bar, and drive the delivery of PurchaseX’s next generation of customer-facing experiences built on our modernized architecture in support of company-wide strategic initiatives. You will have the opportunity to lead engagement with our dedicated UX and engineering teams to define the roadmap, CX, experimentation strategy, success metrics, and more; obsessing over metrics and leveraging learnings along the way to continue championing the needs of all our customers. You will also work in lockstep with the global partner teams that own features and innovate across Checkout’s experiences; driving a cohesive vision and path forward to deliver a future state architecture that scales to support innovation and deliver a best-in-class purchasing experience. Given the strategic nature of this work, you will also regularly craft and present bar raising artifacts to senior leadership to ensure top-down alignment on your vision and plans.
What you will learn: You will have the opportunity to further developer communication skills – both written and verbal – to influence and work with senior management. You will develop skills in A/B testing, product thinking, and working cross-functionally with UX and engineering teams to drive experiences across all devices (desktop, mobile app, etc.) and in all geographies. You will build relationships and learn about the initiatives driven across our broader organization, which powers Amazon’s most visited experiences (e.g. Homepage, Product Detail page, Navigation, etc.). As a member of one of Amazon’s most critical customer-facing teams, you will also collaborate with the hundreds of partner teams that innovate across Checkout in a given year, gaining rare insight to Amazon-wide strategic initiatives and priorities.
About the team
The Purchase Experience (PurchaseX) organization’s mission is to offer the most trusted and delightfully easy purchasing journey on Earth. We offer the touchpoints that empower customers to collect and manage the items they intend to buy; provide the critical order details that enable them to make informed purchase decisions; surface contextual product and program-related benefits/recommendations to help them basket-build and deepen their relationship with Amazon; and celebrate purchase completion while guiding them towards the next step of their shopping journey. Our team of more than one hundred builders owns the software, systems, and processes that enable hundreds of teams and builders to innovate on behalf of our customers in the final stages of the shopping journey.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Bachelor’s degree
– 7+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
– Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
– Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
– Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
– 7+ years of blending product and program management skills to execute strategic initiatives about process creation, standardization, and improvement experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
– Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
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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.