Principal Product Manager, Amazon

FireTV

$145.7-240.9k

Expert level
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Irvine, CA or Sunnyvale, CA

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

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Job no longer available

$145.7-240.9k

Expert level
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Irvine, CA or Sunnyvale, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • You are an entrepreneurial, innovative individual who thrives on solving hard problems, and embraces ambiguity to bring first-to-market consumer and advertising experiences
  • You are able to work extremely effectively in a matrix organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that customers love
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 10+ years of end to end product delivery experience

Desirable

  • Master's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, data science, engineering, or other related field

What the job involves

  • We are looking for an innovative Principal Product Manager to lead exciting new Ad products that scale across Amazon devices such as Amazon Echo, Fire TV, and Fire Tablet
  • You will be responsible for conceptualizing, developing and operating new display advertising products from the ground up and launch features for both Amazon Advertisers and devices customers globally
  • You will define the strategy and vision for the products, and develop and look after product roadmaps and features based on team strategy and vision
  • Define creative, high quality, simple product roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
  • This role is inherently cross-functional — you will work closely with engineering, design, business development, marketing and executive teams to bring features to market and develop and grow business opportunities for Amazon
  • Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture for each product and application
  • Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
  • Gather and analyze voice-of-customer and voice-of-advertiser data
  • Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, advertiser experience, performance and operational support load
  • Work closely with engineering teams and design team to deliver products to market
  • Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
  • Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
  • In this role you will collaborate with the team to develop the product vision for a brand-new set of advertising experiences on Amazon Devices that delight and engage end-users with their favorite brands
  • You seek to understand customer impact, business value and celebrate delivering innovative experiences to customers & advertisers
  • You're regularly connecting with other teams to break down silos, and seeking opportunities to implement tools and mechanisms that keep teams connected, engaged and delivering results through documentation and support
  • You seek to understand status, blockers and use or invent mechanisms to provide transparency across stakeholders

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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