Sr. Product Manager - International Custom Solutions Display Advertising

Interested in building innovative media solutions which create great, engaging user experiences and help advertisers achieve their objectives by aligning with our leading sites and brand? Utilize your deep media advertising expertise, strong business and relationship skills in helping us build customized ad solutions which allow advertisers to be integrated in our world-class user experiences that results in both increased advertiser value and improved user experience. As a Senior Custom Ad Solutions Manager, you will be work with top advertising brands and sales in understanding advertising goals and ideate creative solutions to achieve those goals based on our internal options. You will take these insights and navigate internally to define, justify, build and execute on these solutions which are wins for both the advertiser and Amazon users. You have the primary responsibility for all project deliverables and act as the single point of contact for all project communication.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Lead custom solution’s development efforts such as site and feature integration, interactive media/widgets, original content and sponsorships across all Amazon locales and other Amazon owned and operated sites (e.g., IMDb and DPReview.com).
• Collaborate with Sales and Advertisers/Agencies to develop and promote advertising solutions that meet advertiser objectives and end-user needs.
• Drive product requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, and launch efforts.
• Work cross-functionally to manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer experiences.
• Define key metrics for Custom Solutions program success, track and deliver program reporting to internal and external teams.

Qualifications:

• Passionate about generating big, creative ideas for online media, growing the business, and working with advertisers and agencies to build innovative products.
• Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, proven ability to influence others internally and externally and experience partnering with a world-wide sales organization.
• Sound business judgment as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize.
• A proven track record of delivering initiatives from conception through completion on time, within budget and on or beyond scope.
• Basic understanding of technical integration of ideas, and the ability to build relationships with dev managers, SDEs and designers).
• Must be able and willing to think and act both strategically and tactically.
• A strong background (7+ years) in product management, sales and/or marketing is required; people management, online advertising industry experience and/or previous sales/business development experience are highly desired.
• A bachelor's degree is required, an MBA is preferred.