Do you want to reach the next level in your career? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!
The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, innovation and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.
We believe in rapid development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale.
We're seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager (Technical) to lead new monetization initiatives across Amazon's marketing and advertising placements. This role will drive the strategy and execution of innovative advertising solutions that create value for vendors, sellers, and customers while delivering significant business impact. You will work backwards from the customers to lead, design, architect, and implement large, critical technical solutions to make a profound impact for our customers. You will play a key role in driving the strategy, vision, roadmap and opportunities to scale, working closely with software engineers, applied scientists, business stakeholders and partner teams such as retail Category teams, the Personalization team and Amazon Advertising. You will have a high degree of ownership over critical features and the customer experience, leading projects involving distributed systems, web development, front-end/back-end design, and more.
You are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and who has a track record of building strong teams that deliver results. You have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations. We need someone who is eager to grow with us and is passionate about driving clarity in highly ambiguous product and technical environments, and has a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
A successful candidate will have a strong sense of ownership, great judgement, be highly analytical, able to work effectively in a matrixed organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into products and applications that customers love. The ideal candidate for this role will be customer-obsessed with the capability to dive in and learn new technologies fast and who is comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; will be a creative and an analytical problem solver. Experience with e-Commerce, branded marketing and/or advertising products will be applicable and helpful.
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include
• Lead the vision and strategy for new monetized placements with Advertising and Retail
• Drive the development of new sponsored experiences across key shopping surfaces
• Own the experimentation roadmap for new advertising placements and sponsored events
• Owning strategic planning to achieve business objectives and define product vision, experimentation roadmap, and comprehensive balanced KPIs to measure impact and progress.
• Mentoring individual contributors, ensuring organizational health and career development within your organization
• Working closely with software managers, engineers, scientists, and business stakeholders across different teams on a daily basis to define system architecture, elaborate user stories and discuss business and technical trade-offs.
