Jeff Dixon's profile answers

Conduct as many informational interviews as possible. Not only does this help you understand what people do across a variety of industries, but it's the fastest way to find an interesting job. Demand (or strongly urge) that every person with whom who you speak give you 3 additional contacts.

General:
> John Cook's Venture blog (http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/)
> John Battelle's Searchblog (http://battellemedia.com/)
> Internet Outsider (http://www.internetoutsider.com/)
> The Long Tail (http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/)
> GigaOM (http://gigaom.com/)

Recruiting Specific:
> Jobster blog (http://jobster.blogs.com/blog_dot_jobster_dot_com/)
> Cheezhead (http://www.cheezhead.com/)...

Recipient of Faculty Award for Academic Excellence awarded to top 10% of graduating class

Launched iQuantic as the second professional of a start-up consulting firm to the high-tech industry. Led teams of associates on engagements that translated clients' business objectives into creative equity-based reward strategies. Created the most widely-used annual survey on equity pay practices in the high-tech industry....

Managed a team of eight employees at the motor division of an Indian-based manufacturing company with revenues of $500 million. Led the team in assessing the division's order processing function. Recommended and implemented process changes that reduced order processing cycle time by 50 percent while increasing order accuracy....

DIGITAL MUSIC
2005 - 2006
Managed software product development for a to-be-launched web- and client-based digital music product offering. Oversaw all strategy and product requirements definition from back-end services to customer-facing elements.

3RD PARTY APPLCATIONS
2002 - 2005
Led all aspects of global software product development for three products that account for more than 30% of Amazon's unit volume globally. These products, Marketplace, Merchants@ and Merchants.com, focus on third-party sales, both on and off Amazon web properties. Managed a team of six product managers. Responsible for all merchant- and buyer-facing market and customer research, product strategy, requirements definition, and launch-related activities.

MARKETPLACE
2001 - 2002
Managed the third-party seller P&L for Amazon's books, music, video and DVD product lines through a team of four product managers and account managers. Monitored competition, managed pricing for both buyers and sellers, and secured technical resources for product and feature enhancements.

CORPORATE ACCOUNTS
2000 - 2001
Managed the entire development and launch of Amazon's Corporate Accounts product, a scalable, self-service purchasing program for institutional customers. Conducted primary and secondary research, as well as created marketing requirements, financial models, product requirements and use cases. Developed usability studies and directed design and editorial decisions. Worked closely with third-party credit underwriter and software engineers during all aspects of development and testing. Developed sales and marketing strategy and promotional campaigns.

BOOKS DIVISION
1999 - 2000
Managed the Professional & Technical book categories. Oversaw the Computers & Internet category site redesign. Managed in-stock availability and pricing. Responsible for all promotional and advertising activity. Optimized return on investment in editorial, licensed and customer-generated content through content-related A/B tests....

Managed software product development for a to-be-launched web- and client-based digital music product offering. Oversaw all strategy and product requirements definition from backend services to customer-facing elements.

Led all aspects of global software product development for three products that account for more than 30% of Amazon's unit volume globally. These products, Marketplace, Merchants@ and Merchants.com, focus on third-party sales, both on and off Amazon web properties. Managed a team of six product managers. Responsible for all merchant- and buyer-facing market and customer research, product strategy, requirements definition, and launch-related activities.

Key Achievements:
- Developed underlying platform framework that facilitated Amazon's rapid entry into eight new product categories.
- Created mechanisms for merchants to upload 1MM+ new products into Amazon's catalog that resulted in over $100MM in annual sales.
- Developed and designed feed- and web-based tools and features necessary for merchants to sell, including registration, product creation, inventory management and order management....

Managed software product development for a to-be-launched web- and client-based digital music product offering. Oversaw all strategy and product requirements definition from back-end services to customer-facing elements.

Manage software product development for a to-be-launched web- and client-based digital music product offering. Oversee all strategy and product requirements definition from back-end services to customer-facing elements.