Principal Product Manager – Tech Alexa Calendar, Alexa Daily Essentials
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Job Summary
In this role you will be the single threaded owner of our consumer Calendar experience on Alexa. Your ability to harness AI to deliver compelling customer experiences will be critical to success. To succeed youll need to rely on a combination of curiosity and expertise to shape your experiences. Your strategic thinking skills creativity and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams will be key to success. This is an unparalleled opportunity to shape the future of Alexa and ambient intelligence.
Key job responsibilities
Craft the vision roadmap and requirements for Alexa Calendar including maintaining and expanding our existing offering while leaning into innovation with AI. This includes partnering with international teams to localize the experience for each region.
Translate customer requirements into technical specifications make trade-offs to optimize time-to-market and collaborate with developers/managers to prioritize roadmaps and make technical decisions
Own strategic planning and resourcing across the Food charter
Work backwards from customer needs identifying key goals features and execution strategies (e.g. PR-FAQs BRDs)
Recognize and scope new customer opportunities execute strategies for user research and customer feedback collection using both quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate opportunities
Define the architectural and platform vision for the product space alongside your engineering partner team
Collaborate with Science teams to define exemplars test cases and quality KPIs to maintain the customer experience quality bar
Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for new features
Communicate customer opportunities business priorities and performance metrics to executives
A day in the life
You will own the Alexa Calendar charter defining the vision strategy product and technical roadmap for a critical product area as Alexa evolves. You will interact daily with product managers designers developers and engineering managers based in the US Canada and India leading them to create and deliver innovative and scalable products. You will be a passionate product person committed to innovating on behalf of customers. This is a Think Big role where you will collaborate closely with colleagues from multiple product functions to craft new ways for customers to interact with Alexa and consume highly personalized content.
About the team
Were a collaborative team that works closely together fostering a creative and fun dynamic. We build Alexa experiences that customers connect with on a daily basis connecting to the essential services that become part of their daily routine. The ideal candidate for this role will possess a strong product background with a penchant for cross-team collaboration across business technical and design counterparts. They will have deep technical skills and a customer-centric mindset with a history of launching notable products.
- Bachelors degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience technical product management
- 8 years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience in written and oral communication including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical business executive)
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies business analysis or process improvement
- Bachelors degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science engineering statistics
- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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 CA Sunnyvale - 206900.00 - 279900.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 179900.00 - 243400.00 USD annually
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