Global Product Lead - Retail Events

Description Description Amazon is looking for an exceptional leader with the strategic vision, customer focus and demonstrated strength in new product launches to lead the creation of new, global customer events. This role is responsible for invention, business evaluation, marketing and multichannel execution of new retail and entertainment experiences. The role you will play is unique in its scope and breadth of action across dozens of Amazon teams in retail, technology, devices, advertising and entertainment. Given the customer, brand and business impact of this team''s work, this leader will also work directly with senior executives to align strategy, apply high judgement and drive the right inputs to deliver the best outcomes for Amazon customers around the world.Key job responsibilitiesThis is a non-traditional leadership role with a unique confluence of product, marketing and tech capabilities coming together with flawless execution and strong judgement. It is inherently a high visibility and cross-functional role, requiring collaboration and influence with most businesses at Amazon and has direct impact on consumers, selling partners and advertisers. The nature of the role requires this leader to be both creative and analytical, excel at managing and influencing broad stakeholder groups, be able to work extremely effectively across the full lifecycle of event execution from creative vision, to rapid product development, go to market and execution. They must be adept at synthesizing a variety of content and technologies into high quality experiences that customers love and look forward to. The work and ideas of your team are discussed and sometimes debated with the most senior leaders at Amazon. As such, the role requires excellent written and oral communication skills, fluency with data-driven analyses and insights, astute business judgment, successful navigation of ambiguity, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating experiences used by millions of customers. A successful candidate will also be an excellent recruiter and cultivator of talent, effective in rallying their team to navigate unknowns and pursue a big idea.About the teamThis a senior leader role within Amazon WW Events, the team that creates global customer experiences like Prime Day and Holiday.This leader is responsible for leading and developing the careers of a team comprised of talented Product Managers, Program Managers and Marketers. They will also collaborate closely with dedicated creative, engineering, data science and user experience design teams.Basic Qualifications • Bachelors Degree in business, technology or related field• 5+ years of general management, product management, program management, or related roles, demonstrating an increasing scope of organizational and business impact.• 3+ years of team building and people management experience.Preferred Qualifications • Energetic curiosity and the demonstrated ability pursue your ideas both strategically and with operational depth.• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving decision making among stakeholders with competing priorities, especially product and technology teams.• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a high-energy, fast-paced global environment, striking the right balance of data and judgement to make high impact decisions.• Superb verbal and written communication and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels of a large, diverse organization and engage effectively with the most senior leaders.• Consumer facing retail, entertainment, and/or mobile product development and/or marketing experience.• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.• Past experience leading a technology start-up or fast paced internal innovation effort is highly valued.Amazon 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 Qualifications • Bachelors Degree in business, technology or related field• 5+ years of general management, product management, program management, or related roles, demonstrating an increasing scope of organizational and business impact.• 3+ years of team building and people management experience.Preferred Qualifications • Energetic curiosity and the demonstrated ability pursue your ideas both strategically and with operational depth.• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving decision making among stakeholders with competing priorities, especially product and technology teams.• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a high-energy, fast-paced global environment, striking the right balance of data and judgement to make high impact decisions.• Superb verbal and written communication and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels of a large, diverse organization and engage effectively with the most senior leaders.• Consumer facing retail, entertainment, and/or mobile product development and/or marketing experience.• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.• Past experience leading a technology start-up or fast paced internal innovation effort is highly valued.Amazon 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

Created: 2025-10-04