About the position
Are you passionate about impacting customers lives? Do you want to work at a team that solves significant customer problems? Amazon requires leaders who move fast, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and can break down and solve complex problems. This is a smart team of doers that work passionately to solve customer pain points and make their life easier. As a Sr. Product Manager - Technical for Kindle, you will be working with a unique and gifted cross-functional team to developing exciting products for our customers. You will have the critical role of leading and driving the hardware product definition for Kindle devices, and shape the product roadmap while driving new features based on this vision. We are looking for someone with a passion for product making and a proven track record of shipping commercially-successful connected devices with intuitive customer experiences. You are business-oriented and skilled in the development and implementation of a product plan. You will be responsible for capturing, documenting, and communicating requirements throughout all stages of the product family's lifecycle. You must be responsive, flexible and able to thrive in an open, collaborative environment. Come help build the future of Amazon devices and services for millions of customers!
Responsibilities
- Lead hardware product strategy and definition for Kindle products
- Create buy-in for product vision both internally and externally and evangelize that vision within the organization
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that affect the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
- Develop detailed business requirements that can be used to create product specifications and design
- Work closely with management, design, operations, finance, and engineering leadership to develop and deliver innovative consumer products
- Manage prioritization and trade-offs for customer experience, performance and schedule
- Manage delivery of current products concurrently with future product planning
- Drive product and feature launches with teams inside and outside of Amazon
Requirements
- 5+ years of team management experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing and launching V1 products
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Equity options
- Sign-on payments
