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Our Team
Product Knowledge (PK) is responsible for developing the product knowledge graph and services powering the customer display, search, and supplier experience. We manage a comprehensive set of schematic and semantic constructs that allows us to understand customer's intent to provide a buying experience that feels targeted to their shopping mission. We build distributed systems that are partially or entirely powered by AI and ML. Our high scale distributed systems process hundreds of millions of updates on the billions of products to power the online buying experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon's customers worldwide.
Our Mission
Enable customer shopping journeys on Amazon by modeling an authoritative, standardized, semantically rich, easily discoverable, extensible, and universally applicable body of product knowledge that can be consistently utilized across customer shopping experiences, selling partner listing experiences and internal enrichment of product data.
Your Role
If you are excited about making Amazon more dynamic and changing the way we model and understand products and help customers discover, compare and purchase things that delight them, come join us! We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager with initiative who enjoys diving deep into the data and coming up with innovative solutions.
You will take on interesting challenges everyday. You will need to be comfortable pushing back and challenging the status-quo. You will need to design keeping both short-term and long-term mind. You will need to make high judgement calls around reuse vs rebuild. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems. You will need to be comfortable in leading design reviews and representing your team and business to other parts of Amazon.
The ideal candidate will be a leader who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. You will have excellent business, technical, analytical and strategic thinking skills. You are effectively able to work with business and technology leaders to define and prioritize key business and customer problems, build data acquisition and mine data using AI and ML.
As a Sr SDM you will: