DESCRIPTION

Do you have a passion for diving deep to build new products that will drive critical business decisions and operations at scale? Do you want to work on a global project of critical importance to the future of Amazon, real never-been-done-before stuff of complexity? If yes, the Amazon MODE (Media Operations, Data, and Execution) team is looking for somebody with your enthusiasm and skills to work as part of the team. We are looking for a technical product manager who is curious, driven, and passionate about marketing and media. This global role is cross-functional and will work closely with marketing, media planning, finance, engineering, legal, business development, and product management across teams within Marketing, Advertising, and Measurement. If you are looking for a role where you can work on ambiguous business problems and are passionate about innovating new products and features to drive media planning and campaign lifecycle, we want to meet you.

As Senior Product Manager-Tech, you will be responsible for partnering with key stakeholders to clearly define the current tech/data/products gaps in the campaign lifecycle. You will play a key role in defining the long-term technical product vision supporting the functional areas of cross-channel media strategy and planning, buying, marketing operations, campaign reporting and measurement. In doing so you will play a mix of product, and program management roles. You will work with business owners to gather requirements and distill it into clear working-backwards BRDs, use broad context from multiple businesses to guide a team of scientists/ engineers, and manage the program aspects including business reviews and working backward plans. The successful candidate will have strong organizational and influencing skills and uses data to guide his/her decision-making.

Key job responsibilities
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify customer needs, develop and deliver innovative features, products and services that enable marketing measurement at scale to delight customers.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive and improve product capabilities.
• Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation, anticipate, and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer experiences.
• Evaluate the business impact vs the cost of development of key product and infrastructure gaps to influence product prioritization and develop vs. build decisions.
• Write PR/FAQs for key product gaps including the feature sets, business and technical requirements, high-level design, architecture diagrams, and success criteria
• Partner with Engineering, Science and Business Intelligence teams to create best-in-class solutions for customers.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Content, Merchandising, and Business Intelligence teams to create best-in-class solutions for customers.

About the team
We are a new global team that is innovating the cross-channel media strategy and planning, buying, marketing operations, campaign reporting and measurement processes.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree
– 7+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
– 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
– Experience in an operational environment developing, fast-prototyping, piloting and launching analytic products
– Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
– Experience with concepts such as system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making
– Experience performing statistical analysis of data using SQL, Excel and other tools
– Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
– Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
– Experience with marketing measurement related products such as MMM is preferred. Previous experience with digital media companies or agencies is an advantage.

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 https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, WA, Seattle