Senior Technical Product Manager, Discovery Technology
Amazon
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About the Senior Technical Product Manager, Discovery Technology Role at Amazon
Do you want to reach the next level in your career as a Senior Technical Product Manager? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch technologies? Join the Discovery Technology team in Spain and you'll help millions of customers to discover the best from a multi-billion product selection!
The Discovery Technology team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular, and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We achieve this by combining technology, science, innovation, and creativity to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside AI tools for marketers.
You will be responsible for creating products that help customers shop cross-category, easily discover new ideas, new categories, and new brands, and have fun while shopping. Through leveraging machine-learning models, you will drive opportunities to automate Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising and will help deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe.
A successful candidate will have a strong sense of ownership, great judgment, be highly analytical, able to work effectively in a matrixed organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into products that customers love. The ideal candidate for this role will be customer-obsessed with the capability to dive in and learn new technologies fast and who is comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; will be a creative and an analytical problem solver.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, design, architect, and implement products and tools leveraging the latest AI technology for Amazon's marketers.
- Define customer experience, roadmap, and opportunities to scale, collaborating with software engineers, applied scientists, UX research and design, business stakeholders, and partner teams.
- Scale learnings across teams at Amazon.
A Day in the Life
Your duties will include working on the initial product definition, securing buy-in, and translating that vision into an actionable, measurable experimentation and launch roadmap. You will develop and drive requirements back to engineering and applied science teams and partner with them to deliver exceptional products. Expect to be in charge of new projects and initiatives, developing new products, managing business and technical requirements, driving performance, and helping to build plans for the future. We need someone eager to grow with us, passionate about driving clarity in highly ambiguous product and technical environments, and motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
About The Team
The team believes in regular feature development and frequent experimentation, allowing us to continuously improve the customer experience. You will have the opportunity to explore the many channels Amazon provides for customer outreach and engagement, both onsite and offsite. As a new team, we carry little technical debt. We prioritize writing high quality and maintainable code, and build systems that leverage existing tools to provide extensive test coverage across our services. The team provides a great opportunity to make an outsized impact in a burgeoning space and on fresh or even yet to be built services. There are few opportunities anywhere to start on a new team and make an immediate impact at this scale. Help us fulfill our mission of making Amazon the most loved shopping destination for each customer in the World!
Basic Qualifications
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning.
- Experience in technical product management, program management, or engineering.
- Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
- Experience with end-to-end product delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.
Key skills/competency
- Technical Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap Definition
- AI/Machine Learning
- Customer Experience
- Stakeholder Management
- Experimentation
- Problem Solving
- Cross-functional Leadership
- End-to-End Product Delivery
How to Get Hired at Amazon
- Research Amazon's culture: Study their mission, leadership principles, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your resume to highlight experience in technical product management, AI/ML, and customer obsession, aligning with Amazon's core values.
- Prepare for behavioral interviews: Practice answering questions using the STAR method, demonstrating how your experience aligns with Amazon's 16 Leadership Principles.
- Understand Amazon's technical depth: Be ready to discuss product architecture, system design, and technical trade-offs relevant to the Senior Technical Product Manager role.
- Network strategically: Connect with current Amazon employees on LinkedIn to gain insights into the company culture and interview process.
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