Principal Product Manager, Amazon

Tech, Last Mile Routing

$144-279.9k

Expert level
Austin
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Open for applications

$144-279.9k

Expert level
Austin

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
  • Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
  • Experience technical product management

Desirable

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

What the job involves

  • The last mile routing and planning team is looking for a technically strong, detail oriented Principal Product Manager-Technical with a strong track record of delivering transformational products who can own and deliver the next generation containerization and routing framework for Amazon Logistics
  • You can expect all the challenges and benefits of a high-profile business: wide-open space for improvement and innovation, a strong team, and a fast-paced environment
  • These will require a willingness to dive into the details, solve new problems as they arise, think big, leverage high judgment and gut instinct, look around corners, and always obsess over customers
  • You are results oriented and have thrived and succeeded in launching new transformational products under tight deadlines. In addition to product management and technical skills, the role requires a strong operational focus
  • You will need to constantly look for optimization areas, work with science and tech on implementing the roadmap, track progress and define how we scale; Ability to influence, analytical ability, strong tracking/monitoring capabilities, exceptional communication skills and leadership are essential to success in this role
  • The pay-off is high ownership, an ability to deliver results, execute launches with high quality and raise the bar for how we expand our logistics programs
  • You will interact closely with the business team, the technology team, and the supply chain/operations team to identify/manage critical projects
  • Build a cohesive long-term product vision and both long-term and short-term product strategy/plan across a product or suite of products
  • Lead a high performing team of Senior and Principal PMTs to envision ideas to transform the space then execute against them
  • Build scalable mechanisms to ingrain product thinking into not only product folks but into the broader set of stakeholders across the organization
  • Define new products and drive alignment across multiple business and technical stakeholder teams
  • Scope large projects, manage project timelines, and communicate to senior leadership (VP+) on status, risks, and process/product changes
  • Create long-term product vision, influence partner teams towards that vision, and determine and build business metrics to help prioritize and drive execution towards the vision
  • Collect business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, write specifications, work with software teams to produce project schedules from design to release, and manage the production launch
  • Leads and coordinate design & implementation efforts between internal and external tech and business teams to develop optimal planning solutions
  • Work with multiple teams to build software that integrates multiple heterogeneous data sources into elegant software platforms to help us build efficient, flexible, and scalable solutions
  • Use this intelligence to expose trends and drive decisions for our stakeholders
  • Work with business owners to validate assumptions and ask questions to fill in knowledge gaps to ensure that the correct systems are built
  • Engage with all types of customers ranging from executives to developers

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

Insights

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16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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