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Principal Product Manager, Technical, Ads , APM

Amazon.com Inc

  • Palo Alto, CA
  • 9 days ago

    Highlights

    You will design advertiser-facing workflows powered by generative AI, partner with teams building creative transformation technology that converts a single advertiser asset into display, audio, and video formats, and identify and resolve gaps in ad-serving and bidding logic that limit omni-channel performance. Define and coordinate experimentation strategies - including multi-phase testing programs - to validate hypotheses around ad-serving optimization, creative transformation, and advertiser adoption, using data and metrics to inform investment decisions.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationPalo Alto, CA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Omni-channel advertising is reshaping how advertisers achieve their marketing objectives on Amazon and beyond. In this role, you will serve as the single-threaded leader of a product, engineering, science, and business development team charged with bringing Amazon"s omni-channel advertising vision to life. You and your team will work across partner teams - including the Amazon Demand-Side Platform (DSP), Supply-Side Platform (SSP), and go-to-market organizations - to define the product strategy, build the technology, and drive advertiser adoption. You will design advertiser-facing workflows powered by generative AI, partner with teams building creative transformation technology that converts a single advertiser asset into display, audio, and video formats, and identify and resolve gaps in ad-serving and bidding logic that limit omni-channel performance. If you are a technically curious product leader who thrives on turning ambiguous, high-impact opportunities into concrete results, we would love to hear from you.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the 3-5 year product vision and strategic roadmap for omni-channel advertising, translating broad market opportunity into a sequenced plan of deliverables with clear trade-offs and measurable outcomes.
    • Lead end-to-end product development across engineering, science, design, and business development teams, deconstructing complex technical challenges into straightforward solutions and driving alignment across multiple organizations.
    • Define and coordinate experimentation strategies - including multi-phase testing programs - to validate hypotheses around ad-serving optimization, creative transformation, and advertiser adoption, using data and metrics to inform investment decisions.
    • Partner as a technical peer with engineering and applied science teams to evaluate architecture proposals for extensibility, scalability, and performance, ensuring today"s decisions do not constrain tomorrow"s strategic options.
    • Drive strategic communications through written narratives, business reviews, and executive forums, influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to secure resources and align priorities.

    A day in the life

    Your morning might begin with a deep-dive into experiment results from a new ad-format test, deciding whether the signal warrants scaling or pivoting. By mid-morning you are in an architecture review with engineering, weighing trade-offs in real-time bidding logic. After lunch you lead a cross-team alignment session to resolve a prioritization conflict between your roadmap and a partner team"s deliverables. Later you draft a vision document for a whitespace opportunity you have been researching, pulling together advertiser feedback, usage data, and competitive signals. You close the day by reviewing a generative AI prototype your team built to streamline creative workflows, pressure-testing the output quality before greenlighting the next sprint.

    About the team

    Our team sits within Amazon Ads and is focused on making omni-channel advertising simple and effective for advertisers of every size. We build the products and technology that let advertisers reach customers across display, audio, and video through a unified experience. The team is a collaborative mix of product managers, software engineers, applied scientists, and business development professionals who work closely with partner teams across the DSP, SSP, and sales organizations. We are investing in generative AI, creative automation, and advanced bidding systems - and this role will be at the center of shaping what comes next.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

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