Amazon Hiring for Senior Program Manager, APIE (Amazon Product Improvement & Excellence) at Chennai, India Full Time

Description

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Today, we operate retail websites in nine countries, offering millions of products in more than 40 categories worldwide, and we still like to work hard, have fun and make history!

Amazon’s Retail Business Services (RBS) team is looking for a Senior Program Manager to help expand its Brand Experience products on growth analytics to Amazon’s Selling Partners WW. RBS BX products and technologies help selling partners identify areas of improvement to improve product quality, improve display page and launch hero products. Amazon has over 2 million active sellers WW and has added 367k sellers since Jan 2020. When we are successful, we will be continuously improving the brand experience through reducing cost to serve and improving new hero products on Amazon, reduce the negative customer experiences and making it easy for our Selling Partners to get onboard.

As the Senior Program Manager, you will own the launch and expansion features of RBS BX produts to WW Selling Partners and drive adoption and actionability. You will be expected to gather business and systems requirements from internal and external stakeholders, write specifications, drive project schedules from design to release, and manage the production launch. You will work with our product and operations teams, and internal/external technology teams to remove roadblocks and sustain expansion velocity. You will leverage your team to provide solutions that address localized needs (functional, legal, compliance), while not compromising on the standardization of the solution within each segment. In addition to expansion, you will also be responsible for driving adoption of the product in your target segments, improving actionability of the insights you share through the initiative, and maintaining the quality of RBS BX’s outputs.

A successful candidate will be an exceptional strategic thinker and will have exposure to customer experience improvement. Key skills for the role include an extraordinary ability to deal with ambiguity, to network effectively and influence partner teams without authority, to overcome unforeseen obstacles, and a passion for developing a deep understanding of the tech product.

Responsibilities:

1. Build deep knowledge of RBS BX offerings, and business requirements.

2. Develop trust-based relationships with program’s key stakeholders.

3. Help define the program strategies, develop program roadmap, and organize work steams and milestones; gain buy-in and interlock across functional and regional leaders.

4. Manage timely and successful delivery of the program, working with program’s product owners and cross-functional teams to manage risks, and measure and report on progress. Gather and analyze data on launch performance results

5. Anticipate and resolve bottlenecks, manage escalations, balance trade-offs, and resolve complex execution and operational issues.

6. Build and deliver program’s operational and management reports. Use data and analytics to make day-to-day business decisions and achieve results

7. Work with global and regional teams to lead program’s adoption efforts. Hold regular business reviews with both internal and external partners

8. Define and manage to program KPIs. Use Voice of the Customer, experimentation, data analysis, to set global quality standards and specifications for all product media for Amazon

9. Present strategic program and user insights and recommendations to stakeholders and cross-functional team.

10. Provide ad-hoc support and analysis to senior leaders on strategy documents and research requests.

About the team

The north star of Product Design Recommender (PDR) is to empower brands to design and launch successful products that customers love and achieve 4+ star rating. PDR leverages natural language processing (NLP), ML and AI to convert customer reviews available in Amazon into accurate product development insights. PDR will address the concerns of lack of data/insights, inaccuracy of data from 3P tools and dispersion of data across multiple tools in Product Research and Development. The scope of PDR covers end to end Product Research & Development, offering insights relevant to different phases of product development like Research and Ideation, Design and Engineering.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

• 5+ years of program or project management experience

• 5+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience

• Master’s degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field