Description

Excited about brand building and brand shopping? We empower brands to tell their story and develop a direct relationship with customers. We give them control over their brand voice. Our vision is to bring the best and emerging brands to customers, and lead them through an inspiring, discovery-based, brand shopping journey.

As a Principal Product Manager (Technical) for the Brand Shopping Experiences (BSX) team, you will use a combination of outstanding leadership, thought clarity, analytical skills, cross-functional partnership, business model analysis, and strategic thinking to innovate on behalf of our customers. You "think big, start small" and are excited about the prospect of building new programs from scratch and scaling it to meet future, unforeseen customer needs and business opportunities. You are comfortable having both technical and strategic design conversations with senior engineering and product leaders. You also have a proven track record of owning and delivering world-class experiences for brands (i.e. B2B) that raise-the-bar from an innovation, usability, and design perspective. Lastly, you deliver results in an ambiguous, fast-paced, dynamic business environment and are comfortable exercising judgment across a spectrum of highly diverse problems.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead the development of the product vision, strategy and roadmap

• Create consensus for the product vision both internally and with key partner teams

• Work closely with software engineering, design, and business stakeholders to deliver features

• Define an ambitious product roadmap to deliver on your vision while making iterative progress on behalf of our customers

• Actively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals

• Strong attention to detail and end-to-end ownership

• Must be able to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage changing priorities

• Strong verbal/written communication & data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

A day in the life

In this role, you will be the voice of our brand customers by speaking directly and often with brands to understand their pain points and needs while using our products. You will translate these needs into a vision for how to make building and growing a brand on Amazon easier. You will present your vision to gain buy-in with senior leadership and work with partner teams in the Amazon Stores and Ads organizations as well as with design, science, and engineering teams to iteratively deliver on this vision.

About the team

The Brand Shopping Experiences (BSX) team strives to be a primary enabler of brand-building on Amazon. We help brands develop discovery, consideration, and loyalty with shoppers; expressed in meaningful connections that strengthen brands' current and future sales. Our main customer facing programs are Brand Stores, Brand Posts, and Brand Follow.

We will consider candidates in Seattle, New York or Vancouver Canada.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of end to end product delivery experience

• 10+ years of technical product or program management experience

• Bachelor's degree

• 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

• Experience technical product management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements

• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

• Experience in product management for a customer facing, B2B product

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 $144,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.