Job Description

DESCRIPTIONAmazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for 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.Search Thematic Ad Experience (STAX) team within Sponsored Products is looking for a Principal Product Manager - Technical to lead the product vision and execution of a new ad feature. This is an exciting and new role to utilize the cutting edge technology of Large Language Models (LLMs) in building new ad products that will simplify the product discovery and research for our hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide.Key job responsibilities
The candidate will work with a talented team of engineers and scientists to bring this vision to life. The candidate will be a product visionary, but at the same time be pragmatic and agile. The role will require demonstrated experience in operating in a complex and ambiguous environment, but adept at breaking down these ambiguities into manageable and tractable milestones, while making progress towards achieving the end vision through continuous experimentation. Influencing without authority across organizations (both internal and external) will be a critical skill in this role. The candidate should also be comfortable in making high-judgment calls, both with and without data. The role also requires collaborating closely with UX designers in crafting how the future of shopping experience on Amazon looks like. The candidate will also be a business leader, defining the right success metrics for the program and our customers to drive long-term business growth. If you are excited about developing new customer-facing experiences that directly impacts hundreds of millions of customers, while working at the intersection of cutting-edge science, engineering, and UX; this may be perfect a fit!About the team
We are the Search thematic ads experience team within Sponsored products - a fast growing team of customer-obsessed engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives to drive value for both our customers and advertisers, through continuous innovation. We focus on new ads experiences globally to help shoppers make the most informed purchase decision while helping shortcut the time to discovery that shoppers are highly likely to engage with. We also harvest rich contextual and behavioral signals that are used to optimize our backend models to continually improve the shopper experience. We obsess about our customers and are continuously seeking opportunities to delight them.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Toronto, ON, CANBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Bachelor\'s degree
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience technical product managementPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvementAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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