Amazon.com strives to be Earth's
most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually
anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want -
low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and
evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from Web site to
e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation
that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest minds come to
Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of
shoppers and sellers around the world. Amazon’s vision is to offer the earth’s
largest selection and lowest prices to our customers.
Over 2MM Sellers in 9 countries
(and growing) list their products for sale on the Amazon.com Marketplace.
Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of
offering the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. These Sellers offer
hundreds of millions of unique SK Us
providing a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics,
Apparel to Consumables and beyond. Our business currently represents more than
1/3 of Amazon units sold, and is growing all the
time.
The Marketplace organization
drives the Selling on Amazon business and develops solutions that enable
millions of sellers around the world to sell to more than 150mm customers (and
growing). These solutions include the software platform and applications that
drive demand generation, customer acquisition, seller integration, customer
relationship management, business analytics, and the inventory and order
management functions necessary for sellers to manage their business online at
Amazon.com.
Our team is
made up of people like you. People who are: Entrepreneurial –We build
solutions for all sellers, regardless of size. In fact, many of us are sellers
ourselves. Innovative – Our problem space evolves every day due to scale, new
categories and new geographies. There is no playbook for a Marketplace of this
size, so innovation and creativity are a must. Passionate – We are passionate
about our customers, both sellers and buyers. Everyone’s an owner at Amazon,
and our team is no exception. Our business is growing fast and the pace is even
faster. Leaders – We recognize the desire for people to lead, whether it is the
development of a new feature or ownership of a new category. We invest in our
team members, providing challenging roles with significant responsibility.
Coaching and mentoring is taken seriously to ensure we continue to build a
company we can be extremely proud of.
We are looking for a visionary
technical leader to work on the Seller Services team to improve the Catalog
Quality though automated machine learning methodologies. As this leader, you
will combine your technical vision with business judgment in making decisions
and guiding the teams. You will be the primary owner in building
high-performance teams, driving innovation, technology roadmaps and delivery of
customer-centric systems. You will be executing in a fast-paced environment,
driving for results and continuous improvements in Seller
experience.
Ideal Candidate:
- · Must be technically credible to lead teams of world-class software engineers and be able to make the right design decisions and technology choices
- · Deep understanding of overall systems development life cycle including various methodologies (agile, waterfall, iterative)
- · Experienced in developing the long-term strategy for technology platforms and that translate into an achievable roadmap
- · Experienced building and managing teams that designs and delivers scalable, extensible complex distributed systems.
- · Has managed remote development teams
- · Understands how to scope and justify resources and budget needs to senior leaders and finance partners
- · Knows how to effectively operate technology platforms which are highly reliable
- · Experience with open source technologies, object-oriented design, and agile development methodologies
Responsibilities:
- Build a Business and Ontology
supported Operations team to train the machine learning system with relevant
data
- Build and Manage high performing
technical teams
- Fix the defects in catalog with
machine learning techniques or by improving manual
operations
- Use analytical influence over
multiple departments, increasing their productivity and effectiveness to achieve
strategic goals
- Work with Sellers, business
managers, operations, software development, sales, account managers, legal and
finance.
- Build and execute on new
initiatives and roadmaps each year
- Work with the functional business
leaders to build scalable processes and metrics
- Support network level excellence
in six sigma and lean practices through designing and implementing systems,
metrics, and programs that drive adoption and continuous
improvement.
- Provide metrics inputs to various
reporting decks; communicate key performance indicators to the Seller Services
team in support of network objectives.
- Collaborate with counterparts in
other functional areas in the company
Basic
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering,
Math, Statistics or related discipline
- 10 + years Management experience
in a retail, manufacturing, production or quality, distribution
environment
- Ability to lead, teach and develop
associates and managers to deliver key organizational
goals.
- Cross-functional project
management experience
- Process improvement experience via
Six-Sigma and LEAN tools
- Experience using and communicating
performance metrics
- Proven track record to creating
and executing on highly effective quality processes
- Strong people management skills,
with a proven ability to hire and grow talented personnel in multiple
locations
- Is innovative, can simplify, and
has relentlessly high standards
- Maintains composure in the face of
highly ambiguous environments and constant change
Thanks &
Regards,