Do you have a passion for products? Do you have proven strategic influence capabilities, analytical capabilities, exceptional communication, project management skills, and the ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment? Can you be both scrappy and strategic? If this sounds like you, then come join the Amazon Private Brand, Global Product Development & Optimization Team as our new Manager, Product Development in charge of driving the product development for global Hardline Private Brands business!



Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will be responsible for:
• Define product development strategy, roadmap priority across owned categories with alignment across global stakeholder teams, such as regional business management team, global sourcing team
• Provide coaching and guidance to the Hardline product developers, to define the product development roadmap, identify and align the product proposition across key features and ASP, ensure product is developed and launched on time and on target
• Identify and drive iteration on scalable solution to keep improving productivity and efficiency for product developers across planning, development and commercialization; bring user needs to Assortment optimization team for longer team data tools and automated solution building

Traits of success:
A success candidate will demonstrate
- Strong strategic agility: ability to define the team vision that can cultivate the emerging market, customer and technology trend, to identify areas for innovation or improvement and deliver scalable and efficient solutions; can standing alone to drive strategic influence across stakeholders
- Problem-solving Ability: strong analytical horsepower to identify and break down complex problems quickly and efficiently, ability to evaluate trade off, to make decision under pressure
- Leadership: demonstrated experience in growing team across seniority level, in leading and motivating cross-functional teams to achieve product goals and organizational objectives
- Product development management: Ability to manage product lifecycle from ideation, design through commercialization; Be a smart and hard-working person who loves products and "getting it done, on time."
- Scale mindset: always look for opportunity to drive scale solution for efficiency enhancement, have the technical aptitude to quickly grasp complex technical issues and communicate directly with the expert teams such as design, material and data tech.
This is a full-time position may require domestic and international travel up to 25% of the time over the course of a year, along with the physical ability to lift up to 25 pounds, and perform regular movements including sitting, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, squatting, bending, and reaching.


About the team
The mission of Amazon Private Brands (APB) offers product categories across hardline (HL), Softline (SL) and consumables. Its mission is to build the most trusted and loved brands on Amazon, improving the customer experience and driving incremental profit for Amazon. We deliver a product assortment that offers incremental value for customers in terms of sustainability, reliability, safety, availability, price and speed compared to competitive products, which reinforces Amazon’s low price-high value perception and drives repeat store visits. We drive growth and profitability by clearly communicating to our customers through a streamlined brand which gives a clear signal to customers that they can buy with confidence, making faster and easier purchase decisions amidst the vast array of similar products sold in Amazon’s stores. The Product Development and Optimization Team focuses on worldwide product development under the Product Development sub-teams, and drive data driven scale solution, business tenets and optimize product life cycle management under the Assortment Optimization sub-team, for both Hardline and Softline.