Principal Tech Product Manager, Amazon

Data Services

$161.9-279.9k

Expert level
New York
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

$161.9-279.9k

Expert level
New York

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

  • To succeed in this role you must be an experienced Principal Product Manager - Technical, who is a passionate advocate for customers
  • You should have a track record of end-to-end ownership, influencing across multiple teams and at the leadership level, and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment
  • You should always be looking to invent and simplify
  • You must earn trust with technical credibility and pragmatic decision making, working with a cross-section of senior leaders and technical teams across Amazon
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 11+ years of end to end product delivery experience
  • Experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and effectively influence across cross-functional teams
  • Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
  • Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
  • Experience in owning/managing a a highly-technical product or a product with technical customers (tech teams, engineers/scientists)

Desirable

  • Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
  • Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
  • Experience owning data-centric products

What the job involves

  • We are hiring for a Principal Product Manager (Technical) to drive the evolution of products which provide Amazon business teams and selling partners (marketplace sellers and retail vendors) with comprehensive, accurate, and standardized metrics in a timely manner to enable high quality, high velocity decisions
  • You will own and be responsible for leading the product development lifecycle for services that support online and offline use cases, cross-domain and historical time-series data
  • Your will set the strategy for your service to evolve and scale, enabling its customers to meet growing Amazon business needs without becoming a bottleneck
  • This role has direct impact on thousands of Amazonians and hundreds of thousands of selling partners globally and the tools they use to grow their businesses
  • The Principal Product Manager - Technical, will be fluent in a range of strategic and analytical approaches to product and technical leadership, including the ability to build compelling value propositions, influence stakeholders, and provide clarity on complex systems and dynamics via rigorously refined written and verbal communication
  • Work on large, important product initiatives. Define the long-term product strategy and vision to meet emerging customer needs, and the feature design and technical approach to deliver on this vision
  • Be highly analytical, resourceful, customer-obsessed and team oriented. Drives alignment and coherent product feature, business, and evangelism strategies
  • Drive strategic product communications, owns customer engagement and identify customer requirements by considering data, customer feedback, and user research, and designs product value propositions for large tech and cross-functional audiences
  • Be able to manage multiple projects - including planning, prioritization, and task delegation. Work closely with developers through product launch
  • Define and drive the multi-year vision and technical approach for your product portfolio and the team
  • Work with senior technical and business leaders across Amazon Stores, as well as science, engineering, and finance leaders
  • Deliver 3YP, Vision, PRFAQS, and BRD docs
  • Own end-to-end product lifecycle including customer engagement, PR/FAQ, product requirements, CX design, security and compliance, prioritization, and deliver long-lasting solutions
  • Mentor other product managers and continuously raise the technical product management bar within and outside the organization, sharing knowledge and presenting at internal conferences

Our take

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.

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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

Leadership

Jeff Bezos

(Founder & 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)

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

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