Principal Product Manager - Technical, Shopper Understanding and Response Prediction

Amazon • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $206,900 - $279,900 • Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about computational advertising and sponsored recommendations? Do you thrive in a fast-paced organization where your work directly impacts hundreds of millions of customers? Do you love to innovate at the intersection of customer experience, deep learning, and large-scale machine learning systems — including the frontier of GenAI? If so, the Amazon Sponsored Products Shopper Understanding and Response Prediction team could be the perfect place for you. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. We are 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 to improve both shopper and advertiser experience. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we grow at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. We are looking for a seasoned Principal Product Manager – Technical to join our Shopper Understanding and Response Prediction team and drive significant business growth. We build advanced deep learning models, large-scale machine learning pipelines, and real-time serving infrastructure to match shoppers' intent to the most relevant ads — across all devices, all contexts, and worldwide marketplaces. By deeply understanding shoppers' intent and interests, precisely estimating their interactions with ads, and leveraging the latest advances in GenAI to unlock richer shopper representations and more adaptive prediction systems, we help shoppers discover new products they love, provide advertisers with the most efficient path to meeting their business objectives, and build a major, sustainable business that enables Amazon to continuously innovate on behalf of all customers. We work hand-in-hand with engineers and applied scientists — both within the team and across various retail partner organizations at Amazon — to keep the retail experience relentlessly high. We are looking for an entrepreneurial product leader who thrives on tackling ambiguous problems to deliver tailored, personalized shopping experiences to Amazon customers. This is a high-impact role that demands strategic vision and big-picture thinking, as well as sharp execution, technical depth, analytical rigor, and excellent communication.

Requirements

• 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 management

Nice To Haves

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency and productivity, with the ability to craft effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs in a professional setting

Responsibilities

• Chart and execute a course for delivering personalized shopping experience on both Amazon Search and Product pages
• Obsess over your customers and work backwards to define tenets, customer experiences, long-term goals, focus areas and key success metrics.
• Develop and present working backwards documents and product plans (PRFAQs)
• Drive intake, planning, and prioritization of feature and enhancement requests in close partnership with engineering, science, and product partners across Amazon
• Influence senior leaders across Amazon by proactively communicating your vision, reporting plans and progress, and aligning with Amazon's core leadership principles

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal