Job 148152: Principal Product Manager, New Ad Products and Community Features

The New Ad Products team recently launched a new advertising platform for Kindle with Special Offers including Amazon AdMash. AdMash is an application for the Kindle that allows Kindle users to preview screensavers and vote on which they like best. We are looking for new team members with experience in online games, social networking games and community features to drive the future of AdMash and other key components of this emerging advertising and customer engagement platform.

As a Principal Product Manager in the New Ad Products group, you will drive the vision and strategy for customer facing features. This role is inherently cross-functional—you will work closely with engineering, design, operations, finance and executive teams to launch new scalable features and develop and grow business opportunities for Amazon.com.

Key Responsibilities:

• Research and identify new opportunities to build world-class products for our customers.
• Drive customer awareness and adoption of products and features
• Deliver quality products ensuring the best customer experience for both our advertisers and end-users
• Write business requirement and functional specification documents based on intimate knowledge of the product, the market, and internal dependencies within the company.
• Ensure clear communication and coordination across the business, design and development teams.
• Help define and influence the long-term product roadmap.
• Conduct business and financial analysis, including forecasting, monitoring, and reporting.
• Work cross-functionally with designers, software development engineers, sales people, other product managers, and external partners to guarantee a smooth and efficient product delivery.
• Define and establish the product vision, goals, supporting business metrics, and success indicators.
• Measure and analyze existing products for opportunities to innovate and improve to provide additional benefits to our customers.

• 7+ years in product management, business management and/or marketing is required
• A bachelor's degree is required, an MBA is preferred.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• A proven track record delivering consumer products, digital technologies, media, and/or e-commerce
• Experience with social gaming, community features and social media highly desirable
• High attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• An ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
• Superior verbal and written communications skills.
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired.
• An ability to build strong internal relationships across Amazon and influence teams to deliver the right results for the business.
• A composed, poised and professional demeanor.
• A history of teamwork and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.