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Amazon Principal Product Manager – Tech: Alexa Calendar, Alexa Daily Essentials in Seattle, Washington
Description
Want to transform the way people interact with Alexa? This role will enable you to shape how customers use the power of Alexa’s AI to keep their households organized, coordinated and connected. Our vision is to build a calendar assistant with full insight into the household schedule across personal and work commitments, that rapidly adapts to customers' dynamic daily schedules, anticipates scheduling and coordination needs, and proactively helps customers avoid schedule issues and optimize their time.
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, you'll 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
We're 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.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's 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)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
Bachelor's 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 Company’s 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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