Job Description
Are you Customer obsessed and eager to propose opportunities and influence business decisions to improve the Consumer and Seller experience across our different Amazon businesses? Amazon is looking for an experienced, talented and highly motivated individual to join our Customer Experience Strategy team in Tokyo.
As a Product and Customer Insights Manager, you will own and contribute to studies that measure Amazon's end-to-end experience. You will drive studies across multiple product lines (e.g. media, consumer electronics, apparel), geographies and departments (Retail, Marketplace, Digital), partnering with senior business leaders in developing studies and following-up on actionable findings. The role will allow you to make a real impact for our customers from Day 1 and provide a dynamic, innovative and fast-paced environment to constantly build your skill set and address new challenges.
You will help Amazon continually raise the bar and help achieve our vision: to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company. If this role is right for you, you will be excited about the opportunity to be our Customers' advocate and influence their experience on Amazon!
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
- Manage Ambiguity: understand complex business problems across business units, geographies and product lines to create hypotheses and translate this into analysis requirements and identify meaningful insights that help Amazon improve our customer experience
- Study Management: lead large and complex studies, including scoping with business leaders, study design, data collection, data analysis, recommendations, and presenting results to senior management
- Stakeholder Management: build strong relations with stakeholders to understand priorities, define the roadmap, and to collaborate on studies and actions to improve our customers' experience
- Team: support hiring and on-boarding of new team members and contribute to our high-performing culture
The right candidate will:
- Have a passion for continuously improving customer experience
- Have experience influencing and earning the trust of stakeholders and moving business teams to take action in both English and Japanese
- Have significant creativity and excellent business judgment
- Have a strong sense of urgency and commitment
- Be a self-starter and an independent thinker who follow-ups on responsibilities in a timely manner while also being a strong team player
- Be a problem solver who always thinks about what to do next
- Have excellent analytical capability
- Possess flexibility and have a track record of delivering results in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous work environment
About the team
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions, dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings - for almost every business at Amazon - for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers).
Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds - including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision Experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- At least 4 years of experience analyzing data and synthesizing into customer insights
- At least 3 years of work experience in consulting, insights, research, program management, or related fields
- Experience presenting to and influencing through data driven insights
- Business Japanese language skills (reading, writing, speaking) at the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level N2 equivalent or above
- Business English language skills (reading, writing, speaking) at the TOEIC 850+ equivalent or above
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative research
- 3+ years living and/or working in Japan