At AbeBooks, we are reimagining how customers discover the millions of printed works available from sellers across the world. As a Senior Product Manager - Technical, you will define the strategic vision for onsite search and discovery, encompassing how customers find, explore, and engage through keyword search, browse and navigation, recommendations, and personalization.
You will own a complex product area, working backward from customer needs to deliver experiences that make discovering rare and unique items intuitive and delightful. You will partner with software engineers, UX designers, and business stakeholders, leveraging advances in semantic search and natural language processing. The problems you solve may not have clear precedents. You will use your expertise and judgment to define the right goals, evaluate emerging technologies, and design long-term solutions.
Key job responsibilities
- Define and own a multi-year product roadmap for search and discovery, balancing short-term customer impact, long-term strategic bets, and technical backlog prioritization.
- Work backward from how customers actually search and browse to identify unmet needs, developing product vision documents (PR/FAQ), and requirements that translate into architecture for search, browse, and personalization systems.
- Establish metrics that distinguish leading indicators from lagging outcomes, using data to identify the highest-leverage improvements across the discovery funnel.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, assessing how to apply them to AbeBooks use cases.
- Lead product development end-to-end, shipping customer-facing experiences across search and discovery while managing cross-team dependencies, driving prioritization consensus, and serving as the bridge between business stakeholders and engineering.
- Build innovative concepts and champion them through senior leadership, on the strategic direction for how customers discover products on AbeBooks.
- Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints to maximize customer value while maintaining system health.
- Mentor and develop other product managers, establishing best practices for experimentation, roadmap planning, and product lifecycle management.
A day in the life
No two days look the same. You might start your morning digging into search performance data, spotting why zero-result queries spiked or whether a new recommendation model is outperforming the baseline. Later, you're in a design review for a browse experience, or sketching how a new discovery feature could help a collector find the obscure edition they're hunting without knowing the exact title. Some days you're writing a PR/FAQ and building the case for investment. Other days you're presenting your roadmap to senior leadership, connecting the dots so the search and discovery experience feels cohesive. When things get stuck, you unblock them.
About the team
AbeBooks offers competitive salaries, a generous benefits package, and personal development days.
What really makes us stand out is the world-class team of people that you get to work with every day. We trust our employees because we only hire the best. We want people who are prepared to challenge the status quo and always raise the bar.
Apply today, and learn more about why you should join our award-winning company.
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
- Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Experience with A/B testing
- Track record of assessing architectural trade-offs and influencing engineering design decisions
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
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