Principal Product Manager - Tech, Intellectual Property Protection

Amazon.com • Seattle, WA

87d • $161,900 - $279,900

About The Position

Every day, millions of brands, sellers, and customers rely on Amazon's marketplace integrity. The Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) team's vision is to build a world free of counterfeits and infringing products - where customers feel confident about every purchase and brands can safely grow their businesses. Our team designs and builds high-performance software systems using machine learning to identify and prevent abuse on behalf of brand owners worldwide. We are looking for a motivated, entrepreneurial, high-judgment Principal Product Manager - Tech to lead the next generation of seller-facing protections and enforcement transparency. In this role, you will own end-to-end product strategies that enable fair enforcement, reduce seller friction, and improve clarity and consistency in how IP-related actions are communicated and remediated. You will develop new scalable solutions and intuitive experiences that help sellers understand, appeal, and avoid violations-strengthening trust in the enforcement process while upholding catalog integrity.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience technical product management
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience leading cross-organizational programs and setting and holding teams and individuals to timelines and deliverables without explicit authority
• Experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and effectively influence across cross-functional teams
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

Nice To Haves

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related technical field
• Experience with large-scale ML systems and model deployment
• Deep understanding of security, fraud detection, or abuse prevention technologies
• Demonstrated ability to successfully influence stakeholders without formal authority, leading cross-functional teams across business units
• Experience in building and driving adoption of new technical solutions
• Experience representing and advocating for various stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around ML architecture decisions and strategy
• Understanding of global intellectual property protection challenges and regulatory landscape
• Experience designing friction-reducing experiences for sellers and developing appeal or remediation pathways
• Familiarity with Amazon Selling Partner tools and seller-facing product lifecycles

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical product strategy for seller-facing systems and interfaces that support scalable, fair, and comprehensible IP enforcement
• Manage the effectiveness metrics and business impact of seller experience improvements across Amazon's global stores
• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps for tools and messaging systems that support sellers through enforcement lifecycles
• Bring innovative ideas to protect brand integrity while ensuring legitimate sellers can succeed with clear guidance and fair recourse
• Report progress and influence decisions with executive leadership, representing both enforcement goals and seller trust metrics
• Work closely with ML scientists, engineers, and policy teams to invent remediation and prevention solutions that are technically sound and policy-aligned
• Interface with global brands and sellers to understand requirements, pain points, and evolving abuse patterns
• Set clear, measurable quality goals for seller transparency, resolution speed, and experience satisfaction
• Drive technical decisions that balance customer trust, seller fairness, and operational efficiency

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees