Principal Product Manager - Technical, Pricing Shared Services
DESCRIPTION
The Retail Pricing team prices everything shipped and sold by Amazon, worldwide, and cross-format. Our goal is to earn long term customer trust by offering the best prices to customers, across hundreds of millions of prices everyday. Experimentation, automation, and scalability are a core part of our mission statement. In this role, you will seamlessly transition from being the enterprising leader securing organizational alignment on strategic initiatives to delivering new high-performance, fault-tolerant capabilities that improve our prices without human intervention.
We are an interdisciplinary team of Product Managers, Engineers, and Scientists incubating and building day one solutions using state-of-the-art technology to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
This role is critical to ensuring the success of Retail Pricing features supporting millions of customers in their shopping missions as well as a significant portion of Amazon’s revenue. A successful candidate will bring deep product management, technical expertise, and strong business judgment, to help us execute effectively on the complex roadmaps. In this role, you will need to manage cross-functional communication, identify & mitigate risks to efficient delivery, decompose ambiguous problems into workable plans, and to lead execution across multiple product, science, and engineering teams.
This is a highly visible position. You must have the experience and capability to prepare documentation for senior executives and align your roadmap with Amazon’s strategic objectives. Excellent written, verbal communication and data analytical skills are a necessity. Successful candidates should thrive in a highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment oriented around delivering better prices to customers worldwide.
A day in the life
On a typical day, you will talk to several customers, define and prioritize the roadmap, deep dive to root cause a customer issue, release the latest new feature, define and report business metrics, discuss radical new approaches to building and operating at scale.
About the team
The role sits within the Pricing Shared Services organization which is responsible for pricing across all Amazon Stores and their formats, earning our Customers’ trust with consistently low prices. We publish 5+ billion weekly prices for 20+ Amazon formats (Retail, third-party Sellers, Amazon Fresh, Promotions, Amazon Business, and others), own new pricing strategies and deliver them reliably at scale, and prevent errors in our prices. We own a central pricing infrastructure and federate it for our client formats, and utilize ML to automate our pricing decisions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
- Experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and effectively influence across cross-functional teams
- Experience working with Science and Engineering teams building and supporting product features leveraging ML models
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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.