Amer Malas
About Amer Malas
Amer Malas is a Senior Product Manager AI/ML Global Marketing Platforms at Expedia Group, with extensive experience in product management and business development across various companies including Amazon and RevZilla.
Title
Senior Product Manager AI/ML Global Marketing Platforms
Current Role at Expedia Group
Amer Malas is currently engaged as a Senior Product Manager AI/ML Global Marketing Platforms at Expedia Group. He began this role in 2023, working remotely from Seattle, Washington, United States. His responsibilities include overseeing AI and ML initiatives within the company's global marketing platforms.
Previous Experience at Amazon
Before joining Expedia Group, Amer Malas had a significant tenure at Amazon. He worked as a Senior Product Manager - AI/ML - Adstech for six months in 2022. Prior to that, he served as Sr Business Development Leader from 2021 to 2022 for 11 months and as Sr Category Merchant Manager from 2020 to 2021 for one year, all based in Seattle, Washington. His roles at Amazon involved driving AI/ML product strategies and business development initiatives.
Other Professional Tenures
Amer Malas has held several key positions in different organizations over his career. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Senior Product Manager - eCommerce at RevZilla in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also worked at trustangle as Senior Product Manager from 2014 to 2017 in the Middle East. Additionally, he held the role of Regional Business Manager at InCube FZCO in Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2014. Earlier, he was a Business Development Manager at SMC-i from 2007 to 2013 and a Software Engineer/Product Manager at systems & electronic development SEDCO from 2001 to 2007.
Educational Background
Amer Malas has a comprehensive educational background in engineering and data science. He earned a BS in General Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan, where he studied from 1996 to 2001. He later pursued a Computer Program - Data Science at Maharishi International University, obtaining a Master's degree in 1970.
Professional Achievements
Throughout his career, Amer Malas has successfully increased the adoption of platform features across business lines and regions by 80% for the paid social product in the last year. Additionally, he boosted the return on ad investment by 15% and user satisfaction by 20% for both Search Ads and Paid Social products in the last quarter. He has effectively crafted a clear vision and 12-month roadmap for these products and secured leadership buy-in by showcasing the value proposition supported by data and evidence.