Sr. Product Manager, Fashion + Fitness, US Shoes Category

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech

This role is for a Sr. Product Manager in Amazon Fashion & Fitness, focusing on the US Shoes Category. The primary responsibility is to elevate the customer shopping experience by launching, streamlining, and building products, programs, processes, and tools. The role involves working with technology and marketing partners to improve various aspects of the shopping experience, including search ranking, catalog improvements, and understanding of shoe-specific diction. While the role mentions leveraging generative AI tools and understanding prompting/evaluation practices, the core function is product management for a consumer retail category, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. launching strategic initiatives that are complex, require high judgement and a high degree of visibility
  2. roll-up your sleeves, while working with internal and external stakeholders to be successful
  3. driving and creating mechanisms to improve the customer shopping experience
  4. elevating the shopping experience for customers and brands on Amazon
  5. launch, streamline and build products, programs, processes, and tools to improve shopping for Shoes, Handbags, and Eyewear on Amazon

Skills

Required

  • product management
  • technical background
  • highly organized
  • analytical
  • communication skills
  • relationship building
  • detail-oriented
  • process driven
  • ownership
  • influencing
  • data analysis
  • strategic thinking
  • project management
  • 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

Nice to have

  • experience leveraging data and customer insights to drive decision-making
  • experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
  • experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency
  • willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
  • Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences

What the JD emphasized

  • high judgement
  • high degree of visibility
  • roll-up your sleeves
  • detail-oriented
  • process driven
  • technical background
  • highly organized
  • analytical
  • work effectively with internal and external stakeholders
  • proven ability to manage critical projects concurrently and through to successful completion
  • highly dynamic environment
  • fast-paced environment
  • white space
  • pioneer new ideas
  • operationalize them quickly and effectively
  • customer-obsessed
  • data and anecdotal evidence
  • drive results at scale
  • prior product management and technical experience
  • strong understanding on the intricacies of working with strategic, cross-category stakeholder teams
  • smart, hard-working and a creative person
  • solving difficult business problems
  • 'getting things done'
  • think big
  • develop and nurture new ideas
  • applying high standards
  • weed out ideas that are less impactful
  • healthy disregard for ‘the ways things have been’
  • collaborating and influencing team members
  • working with development teams and other business groups
  • presenting projects to senior leadership on a regular basis
  • partner to build and execute on new initiatives and roadmaps each year
  • develop a long-term strategy working with external and internal stakeholders
  • elevate strategic projects
  • drive positive customer experience
  • Earns trust quickly
  • build relationships stakeholders across the organization
  • Develops clear and detailed SOPs and functional requirements
  • Partners with key stakeholders globally
  • develop, launch and scale processes
  • balance Brand needs with Customer trust
  • analyze and leverage data
  • assess risk
  • identify mechanisms to pro-actively mitigate the risk
  • Leverages industry best practices
  • establish repeatable practices, principles & processes
  • Develops and communicates our roadmap to stakeholders
  • 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
  • Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
  • Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency
  • willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
  • Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences