DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an experienced candidate with a strong program management background, with a well-rounded exposure to projects involving application of machine learning and AI. You will lead the team through a quarterly planning process, improve experimentation velocity continuously, and hold all stakeholders accountable to a high throughput. You will work with partners across the search orgs, and be responsible for milestones for various high visibility projects. You will develop and own mechanisms like flashes, launch announcements and monthly business reviews to maintain collaborations with business and country teams. As part of the role, you will play a strong role during the operational planning process of the org. As a technical leader, you will influence strategy and outcomes across various search relevance initiatives.

Key job responsibilities
* Carry out quarterly planning process with the scientists/SDEs on the team
* Own plans for high visibility initiatives for improving the precision of search results, and drive towards them
* Drive mechanisms like flashes and monthly business reviews
* Maintain collaborations across business and country teams, driving competing priorities
* Own experimentation velocity for the team, and find avenues for improving the overall throughput of experiments
* Influence overall strategy to improve search relevance

About the team
The Amazon Search Relevance team creates powerful, customer focused search solutions for powering Amazon search worldwide. The Search Relevance-L0 team in the Matching relevance and Early stage ranking org owns the responsibility of improving the precision of search results in all Amazon locales worldwide (22 locales and growing!). The team is also responsible for the secondary language search in all locales worldwide (e.g., Spanish language search on amazon.com). The team owns, innovates on, and builds language models to estimate relevance of tens of thousands of products to each customer query, within a budget of few milliseconds of latency.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
– 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
– 5+ years of software development experience
– Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
– Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules