Principal Product Manager - Technical, Amazon Search

The Amazon Search team creates powerful customer-focused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories our services go to work. We design develop and deploy high performance fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.

Our team is responsible for running large programs for Amazon Search including Rufus.

In this role you (as a Principal PMT) will be leading a key initiative for Amazon Search to enable Off-Amazon Selection on Amazon ( You will drive the vision and requirements and partner with teams across Amazon to deliver a product that helps hundreds of millions of customers. You will be responsible for defining the product vision and roadmap in a data-driven and working backward (from customer) approach partnering with engineering program design PR legal and other functions to make your vision a reality.

To fulfill this role you will need to possess strong product management skills and be comfortable to operate at scale and will have experience in leading large cross-functional and cross-organizational products. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. High judgment negotiation skills ability to influence and ability to remain calm are essential to succeed in this role. You will be joining a select group of people making history by building products that will be used by millions of customers across the globe.

Key job responsibilities
1. Define and build a vision for the next generation of AI-powered experiences on Amazon. This includes drafting documents that work backwards from our customers (PR-FAQ style) to describe key objectives execution strategies goals and solutions. You will own annual and quarterly plans feature requirements resourcing asks and more.

2. Partner with stakeholders to design and align on roadmaps and goals. You will define and maintain a prioritized backlog working closely with the development teams to understand feasibility and technical approach for each item.

3. You will write feature requirements review technical designs and work across teams to craft disruptive solutions for complex problems.

4. Define and execute various strategies for collecting user research and customer feedback. You will leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate launch readiness and identify areas to improve.

5. You will evaluate technology trends to define a roadmap of features that delights our customers.

6. Build and executive a go-to-market strategy for new features

- Bachelors degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience technical product management

- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies business analysis or process improvement

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.