Senior Product Manager, Technical, Amazon Search
Irvine, CA - USA
Job Summary
The Search Customer Experience team is responsible for the customer-facing features information and look & feel of search results on desktop tablet and mobile devices globally. Our team lives within the Search Organization where we launch new products and innovation on a daily basis. We leverage sophisticated AI machine learning data mining and big data technologies to help customers discover the right products. We run usability studies and obsessively read customer feedback to improve our search experience. Within Amazon broadly we partner with category teams such as Apparel Consumer Electronics Books and Grocery as well as key business partners such as Advertising Rufus Alexa and Video Shopping. Within Search we partner with the teams that power search relevance query understanding browse and product recommendations.
You will work backwards from the customer to design an experience and associated roadmap that uses customer engagement and query understanding data to define and address customer frustrations. Youll develop best practices for insights and KPIs to prove success. You will guide a team of product managers software engineers and scientists to deliver results. You will weigh technology alternatives and be comfortable with products using machine learning and AI generative content. You will have strong judgment and understand which opportunities drive the most strategic value for the business.
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager-Technical to own a key customer facing experience that provides shopping guidance to customers throughout their shopping mission on search. You will define the CX vision develop an actionable product roadmap and coordinate with tech science infrastructure and UX teams to rapidly experiment and implement solutions.
Candidates should have experience working in a fast paced environment have strong bias for action and be comfortable driving clarity from ambiguity. You will work with global teams - both internal Search customers and external tech partners to identify and prioritize needs able to effectively influence up and across the organization and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality search experiences customers love.
A day in the life
Successful candidates will enjoy diving deep into data have well developed analytical skills excellent communication strategies and have experience with executive level reviews. You will thrive in a collaborative creative analytical and fast-paced environment and are comfortable interacting with technical software development teams. You should have the experience and capability to prepare documentation for leadership. Experience managing customer facing technical products and guiding cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management are preferred. This is a highly visible position that will interact with many teams in Search and Retail.
About the team
Joining this team youll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment while leveraging the resources of (AMZN) Earths most customer-centric company and one of the worlds leading internet companies. We provide a highly customer-centric team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto California. Location preference is Palo Alto CA or Seattle WA.
- 5 years of product or program management product marketing business development or technology experience
- Bachelors 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
- Experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience bridging technical and business teams to collect and refine requirements prioritize incoming work requests and ensure all committed work is delivered on time
- Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience in using analytical tools such as Tableau Qlikview QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Experience performing statistical analysis of data using SQL Excel and other tools
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Irvine - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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