Product Manager

Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced, innovative company? Amazon's South Africa team is seeking a Returns Experience Product Manager to join our team!

In this role, you will drive the strategy, development, and launch of customer-focused products and features that improve the Amazon returns and refunds experience. Working closely with engineering, design, operations, and business teams, you'll manage product development of key features in our roadmap, drive critical business metrics, and define requirements for innovative technologies that delight our customers.

We are looking for a dynamic and talented Product Manager to partner with a dynamic and creative group who set a high bar for innovation and success in a fast-paced and changing environment.

As a successful candidate, you will have experience managing complex businesses, solving technical challenges, and influencing key partner teams to drive initiatives to completion. You have a strong bias toward data driven decision making and an innate ability to understand how metrics relate to business problems and to each other. You are a product leader who has the ability to communicate priorities and work effectively with stakeholders, including teams across software engineering, logistics, product management, legal, finance, and core retail businesses.

You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity, can work across a wide cross section of stakeholders, and relish the idea of solving challenging problems. You will tackle novel, situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with Amazon teams around the globe.

Key job responsibilities
Own the product roadmap for customer experience products/features
Identify customer pain points and opportunities through data analysis and customer research
Define product requirements and success metrics
Collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to build and launch features
Analyze product and business performance to drive product, process and policy improvements
Present product strategies and results to senior leadership
Prioritize features and capabilities based on business impact and customer value
Manage product development through the entire lifecycle

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree
- +4 years direct experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience in product, program, or project management in leading cross-functional teams in delivery of major new products or services

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of SQL and VBA at an advanced level
- Experience building and analyzing cost/benefit scenarios and business cases and communicating results throughout the organization

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.

In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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