Senior Product Manager (2x) - M@ - Amazon Print E-mail

Senior Product Manager

Job ID:  144426    144719 Location: US-WA-Seattle
Posted Date: 5/26/2011 Company: Amazon Corporate LLC

 
Job Description

Merchant Technologies (M@) organization drives the Selling On Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell on Amazon’s Marketplaces. These solutions include the software platform and applications that enhance demand generation, enable customer acquisition, seller integration, customer relationship management, business analytics, and the inventory and order management functions necessary for sellers to manage their business online at Amazon.com.

 

Our team offers great opportunities for results-oriented individuals who know how to identify market needs and opportunities, define product objectives and plans, are focused on excellent customer experiences, and are experienced in creating and driving functional specifications through the development process. This is your opportunity to make a big impact on the satisfaction of our sellers and the performance of our business.

 

The M@ product manager will help identify and define areas of product strategy and the product roadmap. You will create and deliver product requirements, and drive execution of specific programs and projects to completion against project plans based on the product roadmap. You will collaborate with all relevant engineering teams, category, international and retail business customers to ensure that Selling On Amazon business goals are achieved. You will help establish product roadmaps and prioritized feature lists taking into account core product architecture, new products and features, international expansion, and product performance/availability while continually refining them with direct input from other product managers, relevant Amazon groups and customers, large and small.

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

1)    Manage and drive a number of existing M@ programs and cross functional projects

2)    Participate in designing and creating requirements for the next generation product line

3)    Participate in the creation of market and competitive analysis

4)    Drive the product development lifecycle for your projects acting as the business representative

5)    Coordinate with other Amazon teams, Amazon customers and Amazon business leadership to assess market drivers and determine and quantify business opportunities that are beneficial to Amazon sellers, Amazon customers and Amazon.com.

6)    Partner and coordinate with M@ business leaders to develop a comparable international product line and ensure appropriate product design and architecture; simplify deployment of products and features in new countries, and ensure it’s timely and efficient.

7)    Help coordinate and help drive the M@ business and technology planning process

planning process



Basic Qualifications
  • 5+ years of product development experience in consumer-focused companies
  • A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
  • Must be able to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage changing priorities
  • Must possess strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Must have bias for action, and experience making things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment


  • Preferred Qualifications
  • MBA from a top tier school
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