With millions of customers visiting us every day to find, discover, and buy products, we’re obsessed with making the shopping experience the best it can be – and advertising is a part of that experience. We strive to make advertising so relevant that customers welcome it – on Amazon, on mobile and tablet devices, and across the web. We put the customer at the heart of everything we do. If you’re obsessed with being a part of advertising that informs instead of interrupts; that helps customers deliver great products and brands, not just delivers impressions; and that empowers customers to be decisive, rather than distracts them – then we want you to come join us and make advertising even better.
The Amazon India Advertising business is a strategic start-up with support and interest from business units across the company as well as Amazon’s top management. We are a motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact. This position is based at the Amazon India headquarters in Bangalore, with travel as required.
Key job responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Advertising Strategic Manager
- Own end-to-end key business metrics like ad revenue and active advertisers for a complete category for Amazon advertising (Sponsored Ads)
- Engage with CXOs/ Ecommerce heads of large brands within the category to provide amazon advertising strategy for the brand; act as an Amazon Advertising consultant and product expert; work with the sales team to help brands meet their advertising objectives
- Create and drive processes and initiatives to differentiate Amazon as an advertising destination and to improve advertiser impact
- Identify and drive automation and process improvement opportunities across Amazon’s advertising business
- Lead initiatives which require significant cross team collaboration between Amazon’s ads and other teams; collaborate with global partner teams to drive initiatives
- Develop tools and mechanisms within the team to improve advertising performance overall and work closely with product to integrate such tools within existing platforms
- Strong process orientation; ability to find efficient solutions to problems and automate tasks
- Ability to deep-dive into a problem; very strong analytical skills required
- High bias for action required
- Ability to thrive and perform in an ambiguous setting; sound judgment and flexibility in balancing program requirements, tight deadlines, and keeping people and projects moving on schedule
- Bachelor's degree: Engineering / Commerce preferred OR BTech/ Equivalent Degree
- Master’s degree from Tier 1 B-school · 3+ years of post-MBA experience (preferred)
- E-commerce experience
- Digital advertising experience managing large clients
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