Program Manager, Visual Shopping_

DescriptionAmazon 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 responsibilities· Leading the development of datasets for machine-learning initiatives, including orchestrating the efforts of multiple stakeholders and resolving tradeoffs between quality, latency and cost.· Designing, operating and analyzing data groundtruthing pipelines that involve multilingual workforces.· Assessing the quality and content of images and other data for locales in which Amazon conducts business.· Monitoring the performance of production machine-learning systems and machine-learning development processes, and identifying improvement opportunities.· Communicating opportunities and status reports to Amazon leadership.About the teamAmazon Search provides a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment with offices located in Palo Alto, California. With us, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading Internet companies.Basic Qualifications- 3+ years of program or project management experience- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teamsPreferred Qualifications- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization- Experience building processes, project management, and schedulesAmazon 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit mazon.jobs/en/disability/us.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. For more information, please visit boutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.