Principal Product Manager, Technical, Recommendations & Machine Learning, Full-time

Do you want to create the next generation of personalized shopping and recommendations? In this role you will lead Amazon’s Recommendation’s organization to define new products and user experiences. Amazon strives to be the Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can research and purchase anything they might want online or offline. We are looking for people to help us build the future.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for defining the 3-5 year strategic vision for the creation of new personalized recommendation experiences at scale. You will build and execute a roadmap with industry leading solutions that enables Amazon’s Recommenders to surprise and delight our customers. This is an opportunity to be part of a ‘greenfield’ effort and innovate in a space that is poised to grow exponentially over the next few years.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:
• Define vision, develop roadmap and drive execution to make Amazon’s Personalized Recommenders the industry leader in new personalized experiences.
• Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture for each product and application
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support load
• Work closely with engineering, design, data science, and program management in an agile environment to deliver products to customers
• Drive product roadmap creation including working with operations, executive team, and other team members
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues to help the team meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
• Interface and partner with all levels of the Amazon businesses.
• Mentor product managers and leaders in the team
• Establish standards/best practices to raise the bar on product management in the organization

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience

– Bachelor’s degree

– Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

– Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

– Experience with end to end product delivery

– Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

– Experience technical product management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 10+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience

– Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements

– Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

– MBA or Master’s degree in Engineering, Management, or Technology. Demonstrated experience incubating and commercializing new technology, working closely with research scientists and technical teams from idea generation through implementation

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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.