Principal Product Manager - Technical, New Products Details

Principal Product Manager - Technical, New Products

Canary - US - Sunnyvale, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

• 8+ years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition

Are you passionate about impacting customers’ lives? Do you want to work on a team that solves significant customer problems through innovative technology? Amazon requires leaders who move fast, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and can break down and solving complex problems. This is a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting-edge advances in technology and to solve real-world problems that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we cannot even imagine yet. As a Principal Product Manager - Technical, you will be working with a unique and gifted cross-functional team to developing exciting new products for our customers.

As a Principal Product Manager - Technical, it is your responsibility to define and deliver a world-class experience that impacts the lives of customers worldwide. In this role, you will drive the product strategy, vision, and execution of new customer facing product initiatives and devices. You will take on the most challenging, ambiguous product management assignments and handle them with autonomy and high visibility. You will work closely with partner teams that include user experience design, marketing, business development, program management, and engineering teams to identify business opportunities and bring new customer experiences to market. You will also work closely with the hardware and software engineering teams to shape the product vision and prioritize features.

Successful candidates will be strong, self-driven leaders who can develop amazing customer experiences at scale, communicate clearly and with data, prioritize effectively, have a consistent record of accomplishment, and are adept at synthesizing a variety of inputs into creating and launching products that customers love.

As the Principal Product Manager-Technical, your key responsibilities will include:

• Defining new customer experiences that drive discovery and adoption of new Amazon devices
• Evaluating business opportunities, defining and re-defining business models and applying, or creating, new and emerging technologies
• Generating buy-in for the product vision with leadership and partner teams
• Creating and maintaining an optimized and logically sequenced roadmap
• Translating end-to-end customer experiences into clearly defined product requirements
• Managing prioritization and trade-offs to ensure delivery of a great customer experience
• Anticipating and resolving strategic and customer issues that impair the team’s ability to deliver
• Leading cross-functionally to ensure the product vision is adopted and implemented effectively
• MBA
• Experience defining new user-friendly products with software and hardware features
• Experience defining a product roadmap and leading programs that meet aggressive goals and deadlines in a regulated industry
• Strong persuasion skills and ability to create buy-in for a bold vision
• Experience creating product specifications, performing competitive analysis, and/or market research in a regulated industry
• Technical proficiency demonstrated through technical degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience with agile/scrum software development
• Strategic product acumen and proven ability to define a winning business strategy
• Analytical aptitude and data-driven problem solving abilities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to senior executive audience.
• Ability to work gracefully and have a bias for action in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.