Amazon Prime’s Science organization leads the Research & Development towards innovation for Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is the backbone of Amazon’s consumer business and aspires to be the world’s most engaging, satisfying, and loved membership program, driving growth and profitability. The program serves over 200 million members across 25 countries and is key to Amazon’s customer growth and engagement.
To lead Prime’s growth and impact through science and innovation, we are seeking a Senior Product Manager- Prime Science , to lead Science product development for Prime worldwide. This leader will lead the Science Product team of product managers, in ideation, design, development, and ongoing management of science-driven platforms and products.
This role is inherently cross-disciplinary. You will work closely with scientists in artificial intelligence and economics; engineering, both science-based and non-science; product managers from other teams; project management, design; finance; business development; and executive teams. This role will also work with country and regional teams to address opportunities worldwide. This role will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership in highly technical, data-driven tasks, and successfully providing strategic leadership and delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.
Prime is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and recognizes that our ability to serve our members is contingent on having diverse backgrounds, ideas, and ways of working on our team. This leader plays a key role as a member of the Prime worldwide leadership team to set the right organizational vision, standards, and mechanisms to ensure Prime is the best place for top talent to thrive.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with internal and external customers to define end-to-end solutions for which science platforms and products are key enablers
- Set and execute the vision for the Prime Science Product team, mentor and develop Prime Science product managers, and provide thought leadership to larger organization
- Deliver on science organization goals for Prime worldwide
- Own the successful execution of science-driven product lifecycle, from requirements, design, science, experimentation, and engineering, to scalable, measurable, transparent, monitored and robust solutions, flexible and extendable in various contexts
- Partner closely with business, engineering, and science teams both within Prime and beyond to develop scalable, science-driven capabilities that serve Prime and partner businesses
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- 2+ years of team management experience
- Experience as a product manager or owner
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of business experience in increasingly senior roles, working with both scientific and engineering teams
- Experience with development of technical, data-driven, automated products
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including VP+ leadership, business leaders, and highly technical scientists and engineers
- Proven communication and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels of a large organization; ability to influence
- Experience delivering consumer software products and services in a high growth environment
- MBA
- Experience and education in a technical field
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $178,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $307,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.#J-18808-Ljbffr
