Principal Product Manager, Tech, Amazon Shipping
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Job Location:
Bellevue, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join Amazon Shipping team to shape the future of shipping as a part of a new emerging business and solve the biggest customer pain points in the small parcel logistics industry globally.
Its no secret that Amazon relies on its technology to deliver millions of packages every day to its customers on time with low cost. We the Product and Technology organization simplify complex software solutions that work across our shippers vendors and warehouses to optimize both time & cost of getting the packages delivered. Our services already handle thousands of requests per second make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year integrate with a network of small and large shippers operators and drivers worldwide manage business rules for millions of unique products and improve the ordering and delivery experience for millions of online shoppers. That said this remains a fast-growing business and our technical journey has only started. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal shipping solution on the planet using our technology and engineering muscle as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage top technologies in big data and optimization techniques to operate high volume low latency and high availability services.
What will you do
As a Principal Product Manager you will lead new large product initiatives to define the long-term strategy and vision to meet emerging customer needs. You will handle complex product development and business management scenarios proactively identifying gaps/opportunities to then develop a suite of products to solve the problems.
The ideal candidate has a strong logistics/supply chain and product management background combined with a solid understanding of current technologies. S/he can develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives but also roll up their sleeves dig in and get the job done. Maturity strong business judgment ability to influence cross-functional and remote teams a customer-centric and creative mindset with strong analytical skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent product management prioritization and communication skills as well as the ability to navigate ambiguity.
Key job responsibilities
- Define a data-driven product vision detailed requirements and prioritize competing opportunities.
- Work directly with stakeholders and engineering to build exceptional products.
- Partner with other teams across Amazon Shipping Product and Tech to identify and influence development of new products and services.
- Understand customer (external and internal) needs define clear project plans and execute to high expectations in a fast-paced environment.
- Interact with stakeholders at multiple levels and in multiple locations working with business operations tech and BI teams to define and deliver solutions.
- Anticipate bottlenecks provide escalation management and make tradeoffs to balance business needs versus technical or operational constraints.
- Collaborate with global stakeholders in other regions to define requirements that support international use cases.
- Define user stories and product requirements; while contributing to the technical design of new product features.
- About 10% travel required.
A day in the life
- Start your morning analyzing overnight pickup performance and routing efficiency metrics identifying patterns like why shippers had delayed pickups or where routes are running inefficiently
- Build and refine models that optimize forecasting and routing decisions in real-time determining which driver vehicle and route minimizes costs while maintaining pickup reliability when shippers schedule pickups
- Collaborate with operations teams across US UK and EU markets translating real-world routing challenges (like unnecessary box truck dispatches) into algorithm improvements
- Drive strategic cost reduction initiatives working to cut first-mile costs per package and reduce inefficient infinity routes through smarter capacity planning
- Develop predictive systems that prevent operational failures building tools to predict zero-volume days create same-day pickup recovery options and reduce missed pickups
- Balance technical depth with business impact moving between writing routing algorithms presenting cost savings to leadership and debugging specific route optimization issues across markets
- 8 years of technical product or program management experience
- 2 years of end to end product delivery experience
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Its no secret that Amazon relies on its technology to deliver millions of packages every day to its customers on time with low cost. We the Product and Technology organization simplify complex software solutions that work across our shippers vendors and warehouses to optimize both time & cost of getting the packages delivered. Our services already handle thousands of requests per second make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year integrate with a network of small and large shippers operators and drivers worldwide manage business rules for millions of unique products and improve the ordering and delivery experience for millions of online shoppers. That said this remains a fast-growing business and our technical journey has only started. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal shipping solution on the planet using our technology and engineering muscle as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage top technologies in big data and optimization techniques to operate high volume low latency and high availability services.
What will you do
As a Principal Product Manager you will lead new large product initiatives to define the long-term strategy and vision to meet emerging customer needs. You will handle complex product development and business management scenarios proactively identifying gaps/opportunities to then develop a suite of products to solve the problems.
The ideal candidate has a strong logistics/supply chain and product management background combined with a solid understanding of current technologies. S/he can develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives but also roll up their sleeves dig in and get the job done. Maturity strong business judgment ability to influence cross-functional and remote teams a customer-centric and creative mindset with strong analytical skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent product management prioritization and communication skills as well as the ability to navigate ambiguity.
Key job responsibilities
- Define a data-driven product vision detailed requirements and prioritize competing opportunities.
- Work directly with stakeholders and engineering to build exceptional products.
- Partner with other teams across Amazon Shipping Product and Tech to identify and influence development of new products and services.
- Understand customer (external and internal) needs define clear project plans and execute to high expectations in a fast-paced environment.
- Interact with stakeholders at multiple levels and in multiple locations working with business operations tech and BI teams to define and deliver solutions.
- Anticipate bottlenecks provide escalation management and make tradeoffs to balance business needs versus technical or operational constraints.
- Collaborate with global stakeholders in other regions to define requirements that support international use cases.
- Define user stories and product requirements; while contributing to the technical design of new product features.
- About 10% travel required.
A day in the life
- Start your morning analyzing overnight pickup performance and routing efficiency metrics identifying patterns like why shippers had delayed pickups or where routes are running inefficiently
- Build and refine models that optimize forecasting and routing decisions in real-time determining which driver vehicle and route minimizes costs while maintaining pickup reliability when shippers schedule pickups
- Collaborate with operations teams across US UK and EU markets translating real-world routing challenges (like unnecessary box truck dispatches) into algorithm improvements
- Drive strategic cost reduction initiatives working to cut first-mile costs per package and reduce inefficient infinity routes through smarter capacity planning
- Develop predictive systems that prevent operational failures building tools to predict zero-volume days create same-day pickup recovery options and reduce missed pickups
- Balance technical depth with business impact moving between writing routing algorithms presenting cost savings to leadership and debugging specific route optimization issues across markets
- 8 years of technical product or program management experience
- 2 years of end to end product delivery experience
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 179900.00 - 243400.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 179900.00 - 243400.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Inventory Control
- Warehouse Operations
- Warehousing
- Customer Service
- Shipping & Freight Forwarding
- ISO
- AS400
- International Shipments
- Shipping & Logistics
- Inbound shipments
- Outgoing shipments
- Purchase order
- LTL
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