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Principal Product Manager - Technical, Performance Advertising

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Analytics and Data Management owns delivering Spektr: €œalways-on analytics€ platform for Advertising needs that is fully scalable and reliable. Our products are strategically important to our leadership, finance, economists, analysts, machine learning scientists, SDEs and BI partners to drive long-term growth. We mine billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

You will be responsible for the competitive research, managing go-to-market strategy, guiding product roadmap, driving customer adoption and building cross-functional product alignment for Spektr with other Amazon Advertising groups. In this role, you will be required to show high bias for action, willingness to dive deep into complex problem areas to deliver high scale impact at fast-pace. This role also requires you to constantly think big in highly ambiguous environment and collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders to deliver transformational outcomes. You should be willing to get your hands dirty, try new ideas take effective data-driven decisions working backwards from customers. In this role, you are also required to continually refining technical

Specific skills we are looking for:

• Ability to get a lot done in a startup environment with a mix of ambiguity and opportunity
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary €“ a general manager / owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive
• Ability to have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination
• Ability to earn trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
• Fluency in working with technology and digital media
• Exceptional ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data in order to make recommendations for improvement
• Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work
• Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills
• Ability to think strategically and act tactically

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Bachelor's Degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to get a lot done in a startup environment with a mix of ambiguity and opportunity
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary €“ a general manager / owner mentality and an entrepreneurial drive
• Ability to have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination
• Ability to earn trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
• Fluency in working with technology and digital media
• Exceptional ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data in order to make recommendations for improvement
• Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work
• Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills
• Ability to think strategically and act tactically