The Amazon Japan Consumer Innovation (JCI) team is seeking an accomplished, customer-centric, and strategically-minded Senior Product Manager - Technical with a proven track record in the e-commerce sector. The role involves leading the launch and promotion of a new paid service empowering vendors on Amazon to thrive. As a key contributor, you will assume end-to-end ownership of the paid service, addressing top vendor needs to enhance satisfaction and drive sustainable free cash flow for Amazon Japan. Collaboration with both local and global business and technical teams is integral to this role.
Key job responsibilities
To be successful in this role, the Sr. Product Manager - Tech needs to demonstrate a unique combination of strategic, technical, and operational acumen in building, to launch paid services and products. You have experience defining the strategic vision for major features of a product or service, establishing a roadmap, and have a track record of successfully partnering with business teams to understand Retail insights and driving engineering/science teams to deliver on that vision. You understand the architecture of the systems and technologies behind your product (e.g., workflows, APIs, runtime characteristics, design limitations, and maintenance requirements). You are able to influence multiple stakeholders on technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven proposals and communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences including senior leadership. The PMT must also have excellent judgement in prioritizing between vendor experience, business needs, technical design excellence to maximize business impact.
About the team
JCI is a centralized team that support the JP retail business through Tech, Science and services. Our vision is to enable vendors to be successful on Amazon regardless of their size or lifecycle in a scalable and efficiency way.- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Experience in an operational environment developing, fast-prototyping, piloting and launching analytic products
- Experience in end-to-end development of paid services for e-commerce with successful track record of hitting adoption targets.
- A solid grasp of the business side of technology and/or operations with an understanding and zeal for metrics and analysis to deliver on business objectives.
- Experience in Japan's B2B e-commerce industry, working with vendor, seller, and account management systems and automation.
- Japanese language proficiency
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