Amazon Search creates powerful, customer-focused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Our Visual Shopping team creates solutions aimed at helping customers search and discover the world around them via a camera-phone view. We use advanced technologies to leverage our vast catalog of images in ways that dramatically improve the experience of Amazon customers. We tackle complex problems in computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems.

Amazon Search is seeking a quick-thinking, detail-oriented program manager to help us build Amazon-scale datasets for our machine learning efforts. Specifically, you will accelerate the progress of our computer vision teams both by measuring the performance of their solutions, and by creating new datasets that incorporate feedback from the performance monitoring. To succeed, you must possess a broad knowledge of consumer products in general, excel at program management, and continuously seek out ways to improve and scale up our dataset building efforts.

Key job responsibilities
· Managing the end-to-end relationships with our vendors and workforces
· Forecasting future spend, and tracking overall vendor spend to budget, closely coordinating with Finance and other stakeholders
· Negotiating and managing vendor contracts
· Monitoring vendor performance and addressing any issues or concerns to maintain service levels
· Communicating opportunities and status reports to Amazon leadership
· Designing, operating and analyzing data groundtruthing pipelines that involve multilingual workforces

About the team
Amazon Search provides a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment with offices located in Palo Alto, California. With us, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading Internet companies.