Amazon Global Payments is hiring a Technology Product Leader for our Flexible Payments/Platform team

The Amazon Payments team is seeking a sharp, talented and energetic senior manager to lead a team of product managers to help us meet our ambitious objectives. As the Senior Manager, you'll provide product and customer experience leadership for a strong team in a fast-paced, start-up-style environment.   You'll need to be a pragmatic visionary that can translate business needs into reality, rapidly.

In this role you will lead the Amazon Payments Flexible Payments Service (FPS) business. You’ll be responsible for developing and growing the business, held accountable to financial results.  You will shape the business and product requirements, owning the overall development of the business plans (year over year, 3 year plans, long term vision), driving  product development for new initiatives, making appropriate  tradeoffs to  optimize time-to-market, maintaining the product roadmap, driving marketing  programs, and clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities and desired outcomes throughout the company.

Within the next year, the focus of the business will be on developer adoption.  The Sr Manager of the FPS business will develop a strategy plan to grow a developer and partner community to elevate the adoption of the FPS API service.  In addition, you will need to building out the strategy to provide developers with a set of integration features that makes it trivial for developers to adopt FPS. 

The position will require working closely with finance, owing a P&L while also working closely with sales managers, customer service providers, technical managers, designers, and software development engineer leads.  You will need to focus your attention on becoming the expert on customer needs, working directly with customers, ensuring that FPS meets developer and merchant needs.  You will also  be responsible for managing business relationships and  communication through a  release cycle as it relates to the products  and services developed.  

Candidates must have excellent product instincts and communication skills coupled with a passion for business, technology and delivering a world-class customer experience.  Candidates will have a demonstrated track record managing all aspects of a successful software or technology product throughout its lifecycle, including product strategy development, customer insights/needs, requirements definition and outbound product marketing. Candidates should have strong data-driven analytical skills   and be able to operate and thrive with partial information and ambiguity and have a track record of building successful teams.  Finally, candidates must have proven ability to manage and run a P&L. 

Ideal candidates will have a background in both finance and technology; an MBA and at least 10 years demonstrated work experience, great analytical skills, strong business judgment, superb communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to resolve conflicts and set priorities, and outstanding customer insight.

• Demonstrated ability to define, prioritize and deliver best in class software service products
• A track record of managing and delivering integration software solutions (application programmability interface). 
• Direct experience in managing high traffic, high volume consumer web service products, web site services, or equivalent enterprise-oriented experience
• Demonstrated management experience of 5+ years with teams of 5+ direct reports
• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others, a proven leader
• The ability to succeed in a cross-matrixed organization that relies on building support in  other groups
• Strong presentation skills for representing the business internally and in speaking engagements to large external groups
• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
• Bachelor’s degree; business administration, technology, economics or finance preferred required

• Experience working in a small startup, or venture-funded company highly desirable
• Experience and passion for managing agile software development teams
• Experience with developer-oriented products and direct experience in payments, a plus
• MBA with technology or product concentration preferred