Are you ready for a high-visibility opportunity to catalyze the strategic roadmap for Books? Are you energized by articulating trade-offs and shaping the go-forward vision for Amazon's very first product? Do you love managing experiments, finding and squashing defects, and putting yourself in the shoes of customers, publishers, and authors?

Amazon seeks a Program Manager to join the Books team. The successful candidate will be thoughtful, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, financial analysis, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives. The role operates in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment, and will provide decision support and advice for key business leaders.

This role is inherently cross-functional: Success will depend on your ability to operate efficiently across teams, drive alignment (or identify critical decisions/debates) among stakeholders, and ensure accountability from contributing teams and individuals. Your key customers are internal, including senior leadership and business leads across marketplaces.

The ideal candidate will be experienced in program management and finance partnership. You will work closely with leadership and functional teams to develop, execute, and strengthen mechanisms for profitability improvement across a global set of stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities
- Present, implement, and track progress on recommendations for new profitability initiatives to leadership; surface tension and debates to drive the right solutions

- Organize selection experiments, debates, and recommendations; define success metrics and go/no-go criteria for initiative launch and/or scaling

- Identify and implement opportunities to scale profitability initiatives across MPs

- Monitor problematic profitability areas and coordinate quick action when needed; connect high-level analytics with anecdotes to bucket selection cohorts to action- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams- MBA
- 2+ years of profit & loss management experience
- Knowledge of SQL

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 https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.