Amazon Search creates powerful, customer-focused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Our Visual Shopping team creates solutions aimed at helping customers search and discover the world around them via a camera-phone view. We use advanced technologies to leverage our vast catalog of images in ways that dramatically improve the experience of Amazon customers. We tackle complex problems in computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems.
Amazon Search is seeking a quick-thinking, detail-oriented program manager to help us build Amazon-scale datasets for our machine learning efforts. Specifically, you will accelerate the progress of our computer vision teams both by measuring the performance of their solutions, and by creating new datasets that incorporate feedback from the performance monitoring. To succeed, you must possess a broad knowledge of consumer products in general, excel at program management, and continuously seek out ways to improve and scale up our dataset building efforts.
Key job responsibilitiesManaging the end-to-end relationships with our vendors and workforcesForecasting future spend, and tracking overall vendor spend to budget, closely coordinating with Finance and other stakeholdersNegotiating and managing vendor contractsMonitoring vendor performance and addressing any issues or concerns to maintain service levelsCommunicating opportunities and status reports to Amazon leadershipDesigning, operating and analyzing data groundtruthing pipelines that involve multilingual workforces Minimum Requirements3+ years of program or project management experienceKnowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experienceExperience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvementsExperience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams2+ years of vendor management experience3+ years of driving process improvements experience3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experienceExperience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organizationExperience building processes, project management, and schedulesKnowledge of basic statistics (standard deviation, correlation, hypothesis testing) Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. 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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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