Amazon - West New York, NJ

posted about 2 months ago

Full-time - Principal
West New York, NJ
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our retail and marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Principal Product Manager - Technical role is the product lead for demand utilization, ensuring that shoppers discover relevant products, and advertisers reach the right shoppers. The role is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for this program and working with strategic partners to create and build innovative experiences. The person in this role will be required to think big, dive deep, have bias for action, and bring a history of delivering results to Amazon's advertising solutions. You will work with a cross-functional team, engaging directly with customers of all sizes and teams across the organization. We're looking for visionary and innovative individuals who thrive on solving problems. An ideal candidate is a leader who leads across the entire product lifecycle. The successful candidate must have problem solving skills, business judgment, technical depth and demonstrated experience leading initiatives that involve multiple cross-functional teams. We are looking for an effective leader to execute both strategically and tactically, and someone who is excited to take on a new, ambitious, and ambiguous program.

Responsibilities

  • Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Sponsored Products program.
  • Ensure that shoppers discover relevant products and advertisers reach the right shoppers.
  • Lead end-to-end product delivery and manage the product lifecycle.
  • Engage directly with customers and cross-functional teams to gather insights and feedback.
  • Drive roadmap strategy and definition, making tradeoffs as necessary.
  • Lead engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to the product.
  • Work collaboratively with strategic partners to create and build innovative experiences.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of end-to-end product delivery experience.
  • 8+ years of technical product or program management experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
  • Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
  • Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements.
  • Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement.
  • Experience interpreting and communicating analytics.
  • Experience leading cross-organizational programs and setting and holding teams and individuals to timelines and deliverables without explicit authority.
  • Experience leading products in the space of performance-based advertising using machine learning methods.

Benefits

  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Accommodations for individuals with disabilities
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