Sr. Product Manager - Tech, SP Search Supply and Experiences
Job ID: 2816492 | Amazon.com Services LLC
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products sold on Amazon through native advertising. SP achieves this by optimizing systems and ad placements to match advertiser demand with publisher supply using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. Our goals are to help buyers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and to build a major, sustainable business that helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers.
As a Senior Product Manager (Technical) for the SP Ads Search Supply and Experience team, you will be responsible for building industry first ad experience that elevates the shopper experience. You will be the product visionary for a green field space in the advertising domain with the end goal of making product discovery simpler, smarter, and efficient. You will also be tasked with elevating our user experience through continuous experimentation, out-of-box thinking, and technical deep dives to make data driven business decisions. You bring strong negotiation skills to align on roadmap prioritizations across internal and external stakeholders, and are comfortable in making high judgment decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive the vision and mission for a new advertising experience. Think outside the box to test bold and novel ideas with the goal of optimizing the shopper experience.
- Work across internal and external stakeholders to align on experimentation and technical roadmap.
- Execute on roadmap and big ideas to drive both shopper and business impact.
- Make steady incremental progress towards the end state by striking the right tradeoff between tactical and long term choices.
- Comfortable in making high judgment decisions, and driving alignments with stakeholders with varying viewpoints.
- Our systems are complex and you need to be a curious person and also able to dive deep into all our upstream and downstream systems to understand how it impacts our products and collaborate with partner teams to customize solutions as and when needed to uplevel the quality of our products.
- Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and adept in managing expectations with senior leadership team.
A day in the life
The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity and with an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must.
About the team
We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
