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Senior Product Manager (Level 6)
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Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. We build software to find products not already sold on Amazon and algorithmically add them to the Amazon catalog. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) infrastructure, extracting structured-data from unstructured-content, automatic item classification, storage systems to hold the massive catalog and distributed systems of cloud-scale. We apply the state- of- the-art parallel processing and machine learning algorithms to evaluate millions of products every day and identify and prioritize new additions to Amazon’s catalog efficiently. If you are customer obsessed, driven, tenacious and analytical, you will have fun solving our business problems of unprecedented scale. Come join us in our journey to make everything - and yes, we do mean *everything* - that anyone wants to buy, available on Amazon!

As a Senior Product Manager, your leading priority will be to design and evolve a scalable product/service offering to allow Amazon to a) add important selection, b) recruit and on-board vendors and sellers, and c) enrich amazon catalog to offer high quality detail pages for our customers. You will also work with teams across countries to drive adoption of Selection Monitoring products. We are looking for candidates with a background in understanding business/customer needs, translating them into feature requirements/process changes, and to drive execution of programs working with stakeholders across multiple marketplaces including Business, Operations, and Technology teams. You will also actively engage the technical teams to define and scope the necessary tools and workflows to be developed to support use cases to add and enrich selection. In addition, you will closely work with retail teams to leverage existing best practices, and drive selection addition. Finally you will target to offer process improvements that reduces friction in product selection creation, accelerate selection addition and enrichment across marketplaces worldwide.

The ideal candidate will have excellent program management, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. In addition, the ability to work backwards and think about the programs and products from a customer perspective is crucial.
You must be able to:

• Interact with Project Sponsors, Program and Product Managers, and multiple development teams to define and deliver complex cross-functional projects.
• Run in front of the software development team, helping define user stories, research appropriate technical solutions, and provide guidance to the team regarding architecture, design, and priorities.
• Build and maintain a complete project schedule, make it constantly visible to management and key stakeholders, and drive it through to completion.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Engage with [many] other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.

Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. We build software to find products not already sold on Amazon and algorithmically add them to the Amazon catalog. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) infrastructure, extracting structured-data from unstructured-content, automatic item classification, storage systems to hold the massive catalog and distributed systems of cloud-scale. We apply the state- of- the-art parallel processing and machine learning algorithms to evaluate millions of products every day and identify and prioritize new additions to Amazon’s catalog efficiently. If you are customer obsessed, driven, tenacious and analytical, you will have fun solving our business problems of unprecedented scale. Come join us in our journey to make everything - and yes, we do mean *everything* - that anyone wants to buy, available on Amazon!

As a Senior Product Manager, your leading priority will be to design and evolve a scalable product/service offering to allow Amazon to a) add important selection, b) recruit and on-board vendors and sellers, and c) enrich amazon catalog to offer high quality detail pages for our customers. You will also work with teams across countries to drive adoption of Selection Monitoring products. We are looking for candidates with a background in understanding business/customer needs, translating them into feature requirements/process changes, and to drive execution of programs working with stakeholders across multiple marketplaces including Business, Operations, and Technology teams. You will also actively engage the technical teams to define and scope the necessary tools and workflows to be developed to support use cases to add and enrich selection. In addition, you will closely work with retail teams to leverage existing best practices, and drive selection addition. Finally you will target to offer process improvements that reduces friction in product selection creation, accelerate selection addition and enrichment across marketplaces worldwide.

The ideal candidate will have excellent program management, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. In addition, the ability to work backwards and think about the programs and products from a customer perspective is crucial.
You must be able to:

• Interact with Project Sponsors, Program and Product Managers, and multiple development teams to define and deliver complex cross-functional projects.
• Run in front of the software development team, helping define user stories, research appropriate technical solutions, and provide guidance to the team regarding architecture, design, and priorities.
• Build and maintain a complete project schedule, make it constantly visible to management and key stakeholders, and drive it through to completion.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Engage with [many] other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will have excellent product management skills with 7+ years of experience in a fast paced environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively and also influence key partners for the program and work effectively with different functional groups, developers, business owners, and senior business leaders.
• Demonstrate business acumen and skills in driving change by developing business proposals and driving implementation of recommendations through effective written and oral communication.
• Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on programs
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically and to drive execution. Should be equally comfortable with long term planning and day to day progress tracking and execution.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and delivering results in a fast paced environment.

 
Basic Qualifications
 

• The ideal candidate will have excellent product management skills with 7+ years of experience in a fast paced environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively and also influence key partners for the program and work effectively with different functional groups, developers, business owners, and senior business leaders.
• Demonstrate business acumen and skills in driving change by developing business proposals and driving implementation of recommendations through effective written and oral communication.
• Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on programs
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically and to drive execution. Should be equally comfortable with long term planning and day to day progress tracking and execution.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and delivering results in a fast paced environment.

 
Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other master's degree in business, marketing or technical discipline
• Experience in eCommerce/Hi-tech/Retail industry or management consulting with focus on one of these industries
• Background in analysis of large volume of data to drive recommendations and make decisions.
• Track record of managing complex projects with aggressive schedules and scarce resources

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