Are you excited about customer-facing research and reinventing the way people think about long-held assumptions? At Amazon, we are constantly inventing and re-inventing to be the most customer-centric company in the world. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.
The World Wide Grocery Stores Technology (WWGST) organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s ultra-fast grocery product initiatives. Our key vision is to transform the online grocery experience and provide a wide grocery selection in order to be the primary destination to fulfill customer’s food shopping needs. The WWGST Supply Chain team builds and operates world class grocery supply chain systems and infrastructure to deliver growth for the business globally. We’re growing in scale and volume, by orders of magnitude. We are a team of passionate tech builders who work endlessly to make life better for our customers through amazing, thoughtful, and creative new grocery shopping experiences. To succeed, we need senior technical leaders to forge a path into the future by building innovative, maintainable, and scalable systems.
Our organization applies Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Econometric/Economic Methodologies to derive actionable insights about the complex economy of Amazon’s grocery shopping business. We also develop Statistical Models and Algorithms to drive strategic business decisions and improve operations. We are an interdisciplinary team of Product Managers, Engineers, and Scientists incubating and building day one solutions using cutting-edge technology, to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon. In this team, you will:
• Create strategic vision based on rigorous analytics. Not only do you have a deep intuition for customer needs, you are also adept with quantitative data sets. Your innate curiosity drives you to find new ways to learn more about your customers and the industry.
• Have convincing communication. You thrive in environments with a wide range of stakeholders across various functions, and possess a toolkit of communications that enables you to construct engaging and conclusive narratives.
• Have a strong sense of urgency to deliver a product that your customers love, in the shortest amount of time. You cannot wait to delight your customers, and execute relentlessly and innovate constantly as a result. When faced with hurdles, you enable your team and collaborate with your teammates to find mutually beneficial solutions.
Key job responsibilities
• Define products and services with the goal of enabling WWGST’s any physical stores to increase revenue and retain customers.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to bring your ideas to market though rapid iteration.
• Identify and mitigate enterprise risk.
• Build business cases, articulate strategy, sell your vision to leadership, understand the market, analyze consumer engagement, lead your team, etc.
• Make hard, high-judgment trade-offs between features and speed-to-market
• Develop a long-term strategy for your area of ownership and execute go-to-market plans for new features and offerings.
• Present your findings to large groups, including senior leaders
