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Contact: assoc-jobs@amazon.com
Years Experience: 5
Education Required: Four-Year Degree

Job Description:

What's in it for me?

Interested in a challenging opportunity that will leverage your unique blend of technology and business skills? As a technical program/product manager, you will shape the next generation product strategy for the Amazon Associates program, the leading provider and largest network of affiliate solutions on the Web. Your responsibilities will include innovating and prioritizing new features and services to extend our current product offering, conducting business and competitive analyses, building product roadmaps, collecting requirements, writing functional specifications, scheduling, and managing key software projects. You will be ultimately responsible for the success of critical initiatives as we extend the ways consumers find and discover Amazon products and services across the Web.

Our Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess a technical background that enables him/her to interact easily with software and Web developers and a demonstrated ability to think strategically about product and business issues. The right person will have 5-7 years of product and program management experience, be highly analytical, have strong communication skills, be detail-oriented yet able to look at a wide array of choices and identify what truly matters, and be calm in the face of fast-moving and hectic environments. Experience working with large, high performance systems, distributed networks, and a working knowledge of database modeling, OO language and design, XML, XSLT, HTML, and JavaScript is desired. Bachelors degree required; MBA and computer science degree preferred.

Amazon.com
work hard, have fun, make history

We employ some of the world's brightest and most innovative minds in software, working on event-driven fulfillment planning, optimal content selection, product recommendation algorithms, guaranteed interprocess messaging, and the list goes on and on. Whether you're scaling our world-class supply chain systems or you're architecting an ecommerce platform that big name retailers (Target and Toys 'R Us, for example) depend on to run their online businesses - you'll find challenging work that'll stretch you on multiple dimensions.

At Amazon, we ship software continuously, so you'll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks not years. Amazon has an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals' innovative ideas are prized and routinely make history. Because you'll be on a small cross-functional team that is responsible for both business and technology decisions, you'll never want for understanding the relationship between what you're working on and the ultimate business value that is being created.

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and is now the world's leading ecommerce technology company. Amazon.com seeks exceptionally well-qualified candidates and offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Contact: assoc-jobs@amazon.com