Sr. Category Manager, Blink

Amazon • Hawthorne, CA

2d

About The Position

Blink is looking for a driven, strategic, customer-centric Senior Category
Manager with experience working in a high growth business operation. The Senior
Category Manager will be solution-focused and analytical, an expert practitioner
in creating competitive environments, and have a strong bias for decision-making
rooted in data and analytics. The candidate will have proven experience
delivering results both within and outside his/her organization. In this role,
you will work cross functionally with business leaders across the company —
including GTM, Marketing, Channel, Sales, Supply Chain, and Finance — to
strengthen Blink’s position in the marketplace as well as drive sales and
strategic growth in Offline and Online channels. This candidate will ensure that
developed strategies across critical categories and product verticals win with
our customers.

Successful candidates must work well in a fast-paced and often ambiguous
environment, and will work alongside highly collaborative and entrepreneurial
colleagues in a startup environment. The ideal candidate will have strong
expertise in AI technologies, demonstrated experience in AI prompt engineering,
and the ability to leverage AI tools for advanced analytics. Additionally,
strong Excel Skills and experience in forecasting both unit/financial
performance are critical in this role.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience as a product manager or owner
• Experience owning technology products
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies in a business context.
• Proficient in AI prompting/AI-leveraged analytics.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex AI insights into actionable business strategies
• Experience with AI-driven market analysis and competitive intelligence tools

Nice To Haves

• Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
• Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience leading AI transformation initiatives in strategic planning or category management

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead weekly, monthly, and annual business reviews and sales planning processes.
• Develop AI-based analytics dashboards and reporting systems to lead implementation of category learnings, insight and business strategies, driving prioritization and mitigation of risks substantiated and balanced by sound business/market rationale and thought leadership.
• Manage and own the promotional strategy and planning across all channels including iteration, developing a bundling strategy, modeling, forecasting, and post-analysis reporting to inform our decision making on future programs.
• Develop AI driven category optimization strategies to increase customer awareness, and creating processes to better manage the performance of the category over the long term.
• Partner with retail teams in offline and online channels regarding strategic business planning, identifying opportunities, and evaluating marketing solutions that drive profitable sales growth.
• Partner with sales in crafting analysis, actions, and messaging for key strategic topics, as well as monthly/quarterly business review meetings.
• Foster and facilitate alignment across the sales and marketing business unit around data and insights to develop the view on global growth and household formation.
• Work closely with Planning and GTM teams to imbue business cases with objective strategic rationale for build/forecasting meetings.

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: Mid Level