In this role, you will build and lead a Product /Program across multiple Amazon teams with the goals of making the most important selection available for our customers, building the framework to capture requirements from WW business teams, analyzing impact, and driving decisions based on insights. Come join us in our journey to make everything - and yes, we do mean *everything* - that anyone wants to buy, available on Amazon!
Our environment is fast-paced and requires a candidate who is flexible, detail-oriented, thrives on ambiguity, and can drive results across cross-functional groups. The ideal candidate will have excellent product management, program management, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. The candidate should have a history of driving deep insights from complex data, have exceptional business judgement including financial acumen to quickly assess the viability of key decisions, and the ability to write compelling business documents and drive outcomes for senior leadership at Amazon. The ability to influence cross functionally and across the organization, at all levels, will be absolutely critical to success in this role.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and own the product roadmap and tech initiatives to improve the end-to-end customer impact
- Drive execution of cross-team tech projects from inception to launch, formulate product vision and strategy, define and prioritize road maps, define user stories.
- Understand your customers and their pain points; work with your users and stakeholders to find solutions that help them enable their scenarios.
- Work closely with WW business, Tech, product/ program teams on defining, designing and delivering high-quality products; provide feedback on priorities, outcomes and timelines.
- Engage with teams across Amazon to evangelize your team's products and build relationships.
Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs vs. constraints.
- Clearly communicate plan and project status to management and key product and business stakeholders.
About the team
Amazon's Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. We build software to find products not already sold on Amazon and algorithmically add them to the Amazon catalog. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) systems, extracting structured-data from unstructured-content, automatic item classification, storage systems to hold the massive catalog and distributed systems of cloud-scale. We apply the state-of-the-art parallel processing, machine learning, Gen AI and deep learning algorithms to evaluate millions of products every day and to identify and prioritize new additions to Amazon's selection efficiently.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and effectively influence across cross-functional teams
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience leading cross-organizational programs and setting and holding teams and individuals to timelines and deliverables without explicit authority
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
- Ability to think both strategically and tactically; equally comfortable with long term planning and day to day progress tracking and execution
- Excellent program management and problem solving skills, track record of improving business metrics
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
