Principal Product Manager-Technical Amazon Robotics

Are you inspired by invention Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture Answer yes to any of these and youll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. Were revolutionizing global fulfillment by developing stateoftheart robotics solutions for Amazons Fulfillment Centers. Amazon is worlds largest handler of singular items and our work combines computer vision mobile robots advanced endofarm tooling and highdegree freedom movement to solve realworld problems at massive scale. Our smart team of doers collaborates with customers across Amazon worldwide to conceive develop prototype and deploy innovative robotic systems.

Amazon Robotics is seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager Technical (PMT) to lead category development for our new robotic manipulation arm architecture and perception systems. In this role you will create and drive category vision and strategy based on customer and business needs. Youll develop roadmaps conduct business case and financial analyses define and prioritize features and requirements and manage resource scoping and commitments for highvisibility product categories. This highly crossfunctional position involves close collaboration with Amazon Robotics development engineering team on manipulation and sensing products while working alongside solution integration engineering teams to incorporate these products into new designs and launches. This individual contributor role reports into Amazon Robotics Product Management Excellence organization.

The ideal candidate combines creativity with strong analytical skills and is able to work extremely effectively in matrix organizations. You should be adept at synthesizing diverse business needs technologies and capabilities into product solutions that deliver transformative results. Were looking for a customerobsessed technologysavvy leader with proven success in developing complex commercial products and platforms.

Join us. Have fun. Make history.

Key job responsibilities
* Drive the development of the vision strategy business plan and roadmap for your product categories.
* Be a passionate advocate for the customer; understand and articulate business and customer needs leverage internal knowledge and expertise and prioritize requirements.
* Inspire the team with the category and product vision and work crossfunctionally to bring that vision to life.
* Define use cases write requirements documents and own the business metrics and KPIs for your products.
* Author internal whitepapers and present to executive leadership to drive alignment on category strategy multiyear roadmaps product plans and resource allocations.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime employees include:

1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you! At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!


About the team
The Product Management Excellence (PME) teams mission is to collaborate with Leadership and broadly across Amazon Robotics (AR) to establish our longterm vision and influence ARs product and technology strategy to develop a portfolio that maximizes ARs impact to Amazon. We aim to own the full product lifecycle by balancing three ongoing priorities: 1 continuously improving the worlds largest robotics product base 2 delivering new solutions that maximize our customers business performance and 3 inventing transformative products to solve our customers future needs

10 years of product or program management product development engineering or technology experience 10 years PMT experience 15 years total experience if mixed with other technical roles)
Bachelors degree
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition for a product category
Experience making sound choices on producttechnology feature capability and performance tradeoffs
Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

MBA and/or postgraduate engineering/science degree
Experience developing and launching firstgeneration B2B/B2B2C products and services; comfortable with ambiguity and nascent markets
Familiarity or experience with robotic mobility and/or manipulation computer vision actuators sensors and/or machine learning/AI
Experience analyzing applications for robotics and automations systems and specifying HW SW and CX requirements
Experience using rapid prototyping and other creative mechanisms to gather direct customer feedback throughout the product development process
Passion for driving customer experiences and diving deep into highly technical topics with engineers and scientists
Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills; demonstrated ability to influence others and manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
Proven analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases

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