Brandon Taylor

About Brandon Taylor

As a highly skilled manager with a strong background in leading multidisciplinary teams in product, science, and engineering, I am deeply passionate about using technology to create intuitive, efficient solutions for customer needs. My expertise is mentoring and developing a cohesive, inclusive, and positive team culture providing ownership opportunities where team members build skills and grow their careers. With extensive experience in technical and product design, I have a proven record of building and delivering consumer and enterprise products used by hundreds of millions worldwide. I am a quick learner who easily adapts to new cultures and teams, including multiple positions abroad. Previous direct reports have praised my empathy, leadership skills, and commitment to delivering high-quality products to customers.

Experience

1. Principal Manager - Product, Engineering, Science

   Amazon

   Jul 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Cross-functional manager of product, engineering, and science for central performance and latency team. Team size of 20. Responsible for driving performance strategy across all stores orgs and building automation to measure shopper latency and guardrail hundreds of updates to the shopping experience weekly. Regular reporting of progress to executives (up to CEO and board of directors). During tenure, shopping experience latency reduced 45% and is fastest since 2019. Created science team to research and create models of the financial impact of latency on customer which help prioritize investments and optimize resources. Team consistently outperforms internal benchmarks for team happiness, belief in manager, and understanding of long-term vision.

Education

• Oregon State University

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  1996 — 2001

Skills

• User Experience
• Javascript
• Enterprise Software
• Mobile Applications
• Software Requirements
• Application Development
• Program Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Saas
• Interaction Design
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Sharepoint
• Software Design
• Android
• Software Project Management
• Agile
• Mobile
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Distributed Systems
• Web Development
• Mobile Devices
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Web Services