Senior Head of Product - Seattle, WA, United States - Amazon

Description

It's All About the Long Term" is one of the key themes in the very first shareholder letter of Amazon ( ).

Long term thinking and decision making, along with customer obsession, has been in Amazon's DNA from the very beginning.

Customer Forecasting & Valuation owns the primary decision metrics at Amazon, leveraging causal machine-learning models to predict the long-term impact of customer actions and business decisions.

Inferences produced by our models and systems guide business leaders in making high judgement investment decisions with conviction.

The outputs drive long range strategic planning for businesses, serve as inputs to financial planning/portfolio optimization decisions and are used as the metric in real time policy optimization systems.

To serve the varied and evolving decision contexts throughout Amazon, our models work with a high volume and complexity of data and at provide inferences with reliability and low-latency.

You will work very closely with senior business and finance leaders in defining the problem, influence senior and principal economists to identify niche scientific approaches to the problem and set a multi-year product vision for direction for a team of talented ML scientists, software development engineers, and data engineers.

You will have to strategically balance between serving expanding customer needs and building high performance and sustainable software solutions.

In this role, you will be a leader working directly with senior L8+ leaders, establishing new mental models with business executives, guiding end-to-end development from customer requirements through research, development, and operating a WW portfolio of model outputs.

Guide project, science and engineering managers with trade-offs between customer benefit and complexity.

• Own regular business reviews with senior leaders/executives WW.
• Drive strategic alignment with senior leaders using data and insights through decision narratives, usage guidance and investment proposals.
• Evangelize through training, white papers, and presentations to executives

Their verbal and written communication skills are exemplary and helps build trust with other leaders.

They have an eye for details, are comfortable reviewing financial/economic model outputs and understand the implications of the decisions they drive.

Seattle, WA, USA - Bachelor's degree

• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.