We are looking for a motivated, entrepreneurial, high-judgement and customer obsessed Principal Technical Product Manager to evolve the shopping experience on Amazon. In this role you will lead initiatives to create delightful experiences for customers to discover advertised products within Amazon’s Search experience. This role will innovate on current and next-generation advertisements that are dynamically tailored and integrated with multiple other Amazon systems. This role will cover both existing and new marketplaces and provide cross-functional leadership for product and business strategy.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you will:
• Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements—often driving resolution to hotly debated topics—either through smart tradeoffs or inventing around constraints
• Manage the P&L around the advertising experience across all Amazon Stores for search results on Amazon.
• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
• Bring innovative ideas to the table, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
• Report progress and influence decisions with executive leadership
• Work closely with designers, economists, Sr. engineers and Team Leaders to invent new experiences that customers and advertisers love.
• Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
•Set clear, measurable quality goals for in a data-driven way
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you will:
• Obsess about customers, their shopping journey, and their overall experience.
• Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements—often driving resolution to hotly debated topics—either through smart tradeoffs or inventing around constraints
• Manage the P&L around the advertising experience across all Amazon Stores for search results on Amazon.
• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
• Bring innovative ideas to the table, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
• Report progress and influence decisions with executive leadership
• Work closely with designers, economists, Sr. engineers and Team Leaders to invent new experiences that customers and advertisers love.
• Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
•Set clear, measurable quality goals for in a data-driven way
About the team
This role is within a brand-new organization focused on delighting customers while driving long-term growth and revenue. Prospective candidates should have the desire and capability to drive results from the ’ground floor’ of an impactful and important charter in support of the customers who drive the Stores business. Great opportunity to invent, build, and drive large-scale impact.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters Degree—MBA or in a science or engineering field
- Experience defining the analytics necessary to drive data driven decisions at scale
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Demonstrated ability to successfully influence stakeholders without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across business units
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
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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.