Principal Product Manager - Tech, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Product Manager – Technical for the Advertiser Growth & Strategies team in Seattle. You will rethink advertiser-facing processes, features, and controls, enabling accelerated growth with high autonomy in a complex ad tech environment.

Lead the integration of Gen AI and LLM capabilities to deliver advanced, adaptive experiences for advertisers and shoppers, while influencing across teams and priorities. This role demands broad domain expertise and strategic thinking.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience.
• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.
• Experience technical product management.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term product vision for advertiser controls and campaign management as shopper behavior shifts toward conversational commerce
• Rethink how advertisers create, manage, and optimize campaigns — leveraging advances in large language models and generative AI to deliver intelligent, adaptive experiences
• Collaborate with ad and retail leadership to ensure advertising products enhance both the advertiser and the shopper experience, driving with backbone when trade‑offs require it
• Make high‑judgment product decisions in complex, ambiguous environments with incomplete information
• Drive consensus across engineers, scientists, designers, and senior leadership, delivering through influence with and without authority
• Deeply understand our technical systems, their constraints, and downstream dependencies to identify the right trade‑offs
• Work backward from customer problems to define solutions that serve both advertisers and shoppers
• Stay at the frontier of Gen AI and LLM capabilities, translating emerging research into practical product opportunities

Skills

End-to-end delivery

Technical PM

Roadmap strategy

Engineering collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Conversational shopping is challenging the traditional paradigm of performance advertising. Within the Advertiser Growth & Strategies team for Sponsored Products and Brands, we are delivering new ad products and features that help our advertisers adapt, scale, and succeed in this shifting landscape.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager – Technical to rethink our advertiser-facing processes, features, and controls, setting the foundations for accelerated growth. This is a high‑autonomy, high‑ambiguity role that demands deep Ad Tech expertise, hands‑on experience building customer‑facing Gen AI products, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term product vision for advertiser controls and campaign management as shopper behavior shifts toward conversational commerce
• Rethink how advertisers create, manage, and optimize campaigns — leveraging advances in large language models and generative AI to deliver intelligent, adaptive experiences
• Collaborate with ad and retail leadership to ensure advertising products enhance both the advertiser and the shopper experience, driving with backbone when trade‑offs require it
• Make high‑judgment product decisions in complex, ambiguous environments with incomplete information
• Drive consensus across engineers, scientists, designers, and senior leadership, delivering through influence with and without authority
• Deeply understand our technical systems, their constraints, and downstream dependencies to identify the right trade‑offs
• Work backward from customer problems to define solutions that serve both advertisers and shoppers
• Stay at the frontier of Gen AI and LLM capabilities, translating emerging research into practical product opportunities

About The Team

The Advertiser Growth & Strategies team within Sponsored Products and Brands builds the tools, systems, and intelligence that help advertisers grow efficiently on Amazon. Our work spans campaign automation, bidding strategy, audience targeting, and agentic product experiences powered by generative AI. We operate at the intersection of advertising, retail, and AI; and we’re hiring leaders who thrive in that complexity.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience technical product management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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