Principal Product Marketing Manager

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a pioneer in crowdsourcing and work distribution, a new category of web services that promises to lower costs and transform how work is done. The Mechanical Turk Principal Product Manager will help define the business strategy and drive marketing initiatives.  The ideal candidate is a seasoned Product Manager and thought leader with strong business strategy and marketing management experience in internet services.

If this sounds like you, this is your dream job in which you will play a big hand in creating a significant new business for Amazon.  Your responsibilities would include:

• Develop plans for and drive execution of marketing, roadmap and business initiatives that will have a significant impact on Mechanical Turk adoption and usage.
• Evangelize Amazon Mechanical Turk through compelling blog posts, presentations, demos, white papers and discussions.

• Create and drive awareness, adoption, and usage of Mechanical Turk through innovative and effective marketing and evangelism programs.

• Conduct business and financial analysis, including forecasting, monitoring, and reporting.
• Measure and analyze customer usage patterns.  Identify opportunities to innovate and improve, providing additional benefits to the customer.  Build strong internal relationships with technology and development teams to drive implementation.
• Measure and analyze impact of existing pricing and merchandising.  Identify opportunities to innovate and improve.  Build strong internal relationships with the sales and business development organizations to drive implementation of new merchandising strategies.

Qualifications

• 10 + years of product management and marketing experience in a technology business
• A proven track record in shaping business strategy and delivering technology products/services in a high growth environment where priorities can shift rapidly.
• Technical depth and business savvy to successfully engage and influence with all levels and disciplines within the organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop sound business proposals backed by hard data and metrics.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
  • BA/BS required; BS in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics plus MBA preferred

• Strong track record of developing marketing strategies and materials to drive significant awareness, adoption and usage of a technology product.

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; strong bias for action.