Principal Product Manager, Technical, Amazon Ads
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for major initiatives. 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. As a Principal Product Manager - Technical on the Reporting Experience team you will own the end-to-end product experience including defining the product strategy, product roadmap, and gain a deep understanding of your customer and business landscape. Your contributions will directly lead to new ad products, innovative new experiences, and faster execution for engineering teams. If you enjoy working with high performance teams, being part of a rapidly growing business, and inventing creative solutions to complex product development scenarios, this may be the role for you.
The Measurement and Data Science (MADS) Reporting Experience team is responsible for the software that hundreds of thousands of advertisers use to manage their advertising strategies on Amazon. These tools are also a fast evolving fabric that enable rapid development by teams across Ads. You will collaborate closely with our product and technology leaders, and independently influence the long-term product strategy and vision to meet emerging customer needs and technologies. As a single-threaded product owner and subject matter expert, you will also gain a deep understanding of the end-to-end product architecture and bring the knowledge of our systems to bear as you find ways to incorporate new advertising customer and partner requirements into the product experience. In addition to being responsible for the P&L of this line of business, the Principal PMT is responsible for high-level delivery goals, business reporting to the SVP level, and creating a bold vision for how Amazon Ads meets users where they are and guides them through the next stages of their growth.
Key job responsibilities
Because this role runs a direct business, supports end users, and delivers tools to developers, its stakeholder base is diverse; great candidates will demonstrate excellent communication skills and that special ability to speak to the long-term vision while laying out the stepping stones that lead to incremental success and growth. They enjoy in diving deep, understanding the technical details, and take pride in solving customer problems. Most important, they will work shoulder-to-shoulder with product leaders, engineers, and software managers to deliver truly innovative products.
About the team
Measurement and Data Science (MADS) delivers scaled advertising campaign measurement and reporting. We support all Amazon ad programs including Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display, Amazon DSP, 3P Paid Merchandising (HOTW), and Amazon Live. We serve advertisers by creating campaign measurement products and delivering performance reporting through our reporting API (hundreds of millions of queries per day) while enabling stakeholder teams to launch and measure new marketing tactics. In addition to developing new measurement and reporting, we develop the foundational architectures of scaled measurement including our compute infrastructure (100+ services, 25K+ nodes), data set storage (2 PB/day), and processing of ad, conversion, and identity events in near real time . Offline reports generated through UIs and APIs have seen 2X YoY increase. MADS is comprised of product managers, scientists, and software development contributors in Austin, Toronto, Boulder, HQ2, and Seattle.
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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
- Superior verbal and written communications skills.
- Track record of complex and creative problem-solving, and the desire to create and build new businesses
- Experience in online advertising
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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.