Principal Product Manager - Tech, Personalization
About the role
As a Principal Product Manager in Tech, you will lead the product roadmap for tailoring the experience of every customer on Amazon’s most prominent pages, billions of times a day. Utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning techniques like reinforcement learning and deep learning, you will build highly scalable, real-time systems that determine the content customers see across Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
Envision and define personalized shopping experiences, tailored to each customer's intent, that operate seamlessly across Amazon as a talented personal shopping assistant.
Work with a team of engineers, scientists, engineering managers, and program managers to design, define, and execute a product roadmap to understand customers' intent and help complete their shopping missions.
Drive the roadmap to implement next-generation recommender systems and invent ways to multiply the rate of innovation across the company on behalf of our customers.
Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints.
Assimilate a large number of inputs from stakeholders, develop cohesive designs and functional specs, prioritize, and deliver them in a successful and timely manner.
Clearly communicate goals, requirements, roadmaps, and timelines to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.
Demonstrate maturity, sound business and technical judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
Collaborate with many organizations and leaders across the entire company to build the future of personalized content optimization across Amazon.
A day in the life
You will have a unique opportunity with large scope and responsibility – you will directly impact and help manage features generating billions of dollars of revenue per year. You will collaborate with teams and leaders across the entire company, and gain exposure to many aspects of the Amazon business. You will be a part of a fast-paced, growing research and development team.
About The Team
Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a shopping experience tailored to their current intent, to identify and help customers complete their shopping missions, and to enable others across Amazon with our understanding of the customer's intent. We achieve our mission through investments in UX, Science, and Systems with the purpose of delivering new, personalized shopping experiences. Our vision is for the quality of personalization provided to be a core reason customers choose Amazon, on par with Earth’s largest selection, low prices, and fast and free shipping. In tailoring the shopping experience to each customer's intent, we envision operating seamlessly across Amazon as a talented personal shopping assistant; a partner that is trusted, knowledgeable, and understands your unique preferences.
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Experience with end-to-end product delivery
Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement