DESCRIPTION Technical Principal Product Manager, Performance Advertising
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.
Analytics and Data Management owns delivering Spektr: "always-on analytics" platform for Advertising needs that is fully scalable and reliable. Our products are strategically important to our leadership, finance, economists, analysts, machine learning scientists, SDEs and BI partners to drive long-term growth. We mine 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.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the competitive research, managing go-to-market strategy, guiding product roadmap, driving customer adoption and building cross-functional product alignment for Spektr with other Amazon Advertising groups. In this role, you will be required to show high bias for action, willingness to dive deep into complex problem areas to deliver high scale impact at fast-pace. This role also requires you to constantly think big in highly ambiguous environment and collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders to deliver transformational outcomes. You should be willing to get your hands dirty, try new ideas take effective data-driven decisions working backwards from customers. In this role, you are also required to continually refining technical
A day in the life
Specific skills we are looking for:
Ability to get a lot done in a startup environment with a mix of ambiguity and opportunity
Strong project management skills and attention to detail
Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary – a general manager / owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive
Ability to have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination
Ability to earn trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
Fluency in working with technology and digital media
Exceptional ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data in order to make recommendations for improvement
Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work
Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills
Ability to think strategically and act tactically
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- 8+ 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
