Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. These Sellers offer unique products providing a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics and Apparel to Consumables and beyond. Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) enables Sellers to provide fast and efficient delivery to their customers using Amazon fulfillment services. Sellers now make up the majority of the business on Amazon.com.
We are looking for a Principal Product Manager tech who is analytical, resourceful, customer-focused, and team-oriented with written and verbal communication skills to drive decisions at the senior executive level. A successful candidate should thrive in a collaborative, creative, and fast-paced environment with a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results.
This new role is unique in that you will be entrepreneurial while leveraging Amazon’s resources and scale. You will work closely with a cross-disciplinary team of data and research scientists, economists, engineers, product managers and executives across the FBA business to accelerate our new product development and launch cycle. We are on the forefront of supply chain thought leadership, working on some of the most exciting and challenging problems in the industry. Join us as we shape the future of global supply chains and marketplace.
Key job responsibilities
This is a highly visible role that requires partnering with FBA teams, Seller Services, Operations, and Finance teams to impact both Amazon’s top and bottom line. As a member of the FBA Inbound team, you will play a key role in shaping Amazon’s FBA business with the following technical product management and leadership responsibilities:
• Own a portfolio of innovative seller-facing management tools from ideation stage to launch.
• Develop and write proposals and business plans, gain approval from stakeholders (e.g., adjacent product managers, legal, PR) and leadership to move those plans forward
• Collaborate with scientists and product managers as well as operations teams, user experience teams, and seller support teams, to create product vision and road map for tools used by third party sellers
• Work closely with scientists and software developers to build minimum viable products
A day in the life
FBA team focuses on driving seller growth and reducing costs for the fast-growing FBA business by effectively managing our supply chain. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering our customers the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. FBA enables Sellers to provide fast and efficient delivery to customers using Amazon fulfillment services. In 2022, Sellers used FBA to fulfill billions of customer orders, shipping more than half of all products offered on Amazon. To our customers, FBA provides a broad and diverse inventory of products from apparel, books, electronics, to consumables with many of them available with 1-Day shipping. This is a unique space where we innovate using various management science tools, such as optimization, econometrics, machine learning, market/contract design, behavioral and experimental sciences to solve novel problems at scale. We work full stack, from foundational back-end systems to future-forward user interfaces.
Our culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. As mentioned by Jeff Bezos in his annual letter to shareholders, FBA is one of the strategic long-term opportunities for the company to improve the lives of sellers and buyers while leveraging our logistics infrastructure to generate increasing free cash flow and triple digit return on invested capital. Our long-term vision is that customers can order and receive a seller’s product the same day anywhere in the world. Inventory Planning within FBA is a core essential that serves Sellers in determining what, when, and how much to reorder, how to drive sales on existing inventory and how to optimize for best returns.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
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 $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.