Principal Product Manager - Tech, Developer Experience, Buy with Prime API
DESCRIPTION
We build commerce services to support merchants in growing their direct to consumer (DTC) e-commerce businesses. We're looking for an experienced technical product manager to lead Buy with Prime API product that will enable merchants to build innovative shopping experiences and e-commerce applications.
As a Principal PMT, you will lead product strategy for Buy with Prime API product. You will work directly with customers, dedicated engineering teams and senior leadership to drive product development and influence long term strategy.
Our ideal teammate will possess a strong product management background, have experience externalizing APIs for developers. You are naturally curious, data-driven and entrepreneurial as you take end-to-end ownership for your product. You are the kind of leader who anticipates bottlenecks, deftly navigates ambiguity, makes informed trade-off decisions and skillfully balances the needs of the business versus technical constraints. You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills that help you build strong partnerships with colleagues and influence senior leaders. If you enjoy cutting through ambiguity, eliminating complexity and innovating on behalf of customers, come join us!
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy for Buy with Prime API
- Deeply understand the technology that underpins our product and collaborate closely with engineering partners to externalize APIs.
- Work closely with developers to understand friction and collaborate with engineering counterparts on the roadmap to address gaps, identify dependencies and clear blockers, balancing impact vs. engineering cost.
- Champion the ideal end-to-end experience for developers and business decision makers as they consider integrating Buy with Prime.
- Define the success metrics for features or services to track performance, deep-dive on issues and uncover trends and patterns.
About the team
Buy with Prime is helping people re-imagine the way they shop. Our vision is to enable every entrepreneur in the world to reach every customer in the world through every channel they can imagine. Buy with Prime is a new way to extend Prime shopping benefits—including fast, free shipping, seamless checkout experience, and free returns—to merchants’ own online stores, ultimately increasing selection for Prime members. Buy with Prime is an exciting next step in our mission to help merchants of all sizes grow their business—whether on Amazon or beyond.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience technical product management
- 8+ years of experience with development and launch with APIs
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
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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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161,900/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.