Senior Product Manager - eCommerce

Amazon.com, Inc., (Nasdaq: AMZN) opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995, and today has become a Fortune 500 company and the number one online retailer in the world, offering - Earth's Biggest Selection- .

Core values and principles at Amazon.com include a constant focus on the customer, tireless innovation, long-term perspective, and openness to new ideas and concepts. Technology is not just about being faster and bigger (although this is important); it's ultimately about satisfying people's needs. We solve existing problems and anticipate potential new ones by starting with the customer and working back towards a solution.

In our zeal to help consumers find what they need, our understanding of end users- shopping patterns is very relevant. It gives us the ability to show highly relevant advertisements for both Amazon and non-Amazon products/services. The Advertising team at Amazon focuses on showing such ads to end users, both on the Amazon Owned and Operated properties, and on 3rd party Publisher sites. By correlating purchase and browse patterns, we calculate the probability of a customer making a purchase (or clicking through), the cost of showing an advertisement, and make a data based decision on what advertisement is best to surface.

The Associate Publisher Network (APN) focuses on building a valuable supply source for Amazon advertising by leveraging the existing Global Associate Program. As the leader of a product group in APN, you will focus on Publishers as customers, and come up with innovative ad formats that enable them to maximize their revenue with the least effort.

- You will develop the strategic vision and execution roadmap for consumer and Publisher facing products through your own insights in the space, and by looking at competing products in the market.

- You will compete with other advertising giants on the internet. In addition to defining the products and setting the vision, you will work with product marketing to formulate Go-To-Market strategies, measure actual business impact, and refine the products further.

- You will have a deep understanding of technology and will appreciate the challenges in developing the best ad products. You will demonstrate a good understanding of the advertising ecosystem (specifically supply side), and will invent and simply to keep us moving fast in a highly competitive space.

You will lead an organization of product managers and software development teams that gives you end-to-end thought leadership and execution responsibilities. You will be excellent in written and verbal communication, and will regularly interact with executives in articulating your vision.

Professional Background And Experience:

The objective is to attract an experienced, global product and technological visionary, Proven ability in envisioning, conceptualizing and delivering consumer internet products at a rapid pace.

- Must have exceptional product management background.

- You are a builder with genuine passion for building innovative, next-generation products, technologies, and businesses.

- Adept recruiter with a demonstrated ability to attract and develop world-class teams.

- A strong operator with significant experience in building and leading large teams.

- Proven experience building and deploying highly scalable, reliable, and flexible systems/platforms in advertising technology or related areas such as search, payments, ecommerce, etc.

- Highly technical; ideally a blend of engineering management skills and visionary capabilities.

- Strategic, yet execution oriented; ability to translate a long-term vision into a near-term, executable plan. Triage ability; good at prioritizing, enabling teams to focus and ensure delivery of the most important projects.

- Strong and convincing leadership and management skills, able to build and inspire a high performance organization.

- Flexibility and adaptability; must be able to work within Amazon's existing operations infrastructure.

- Not afraid to take risks, while being realistic.

- Entrepreneurial with an innate sense of urgency; will add positive pressure to get things done more quickly while maintaining high standards.

- Excellent communicator; can articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.

- Likeable personal qualities to help foster an open environment at all levels of the organization.

- Team oriented, collegial, and collaborative.

- Bachelor's Degree : Computer Science or related engineering field

- 5 years+ people management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

- MBA preferred

- Product building experience in advertising, e-commerce, domain

- Large global product company and startup experience