Sr. Product Manager – Tech, Tablet Platform

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited to play a strategic role in defining the future of Amazon tablets? Come join a dynamic, customer-obsessed, world-class product team to completely reshape the customer experience on our tablets.

We are looking for a highly technical product leader who wants to build high-quality product platform services and features for core experiences on Amazon's new generations of tablets. This PM will leverage the best of Android's capabilities to build and optimize a scalable and highly tuned experience, focusing on performance, power management, identity management, and AI architecture on our tablets to help scale a large, profitable business in the devices, entertainment, and productivity space. If you are a data-driven, customer focused, and deeply analytical product leader, this is the right role for you.

Key job responsibilities
  • Lead the development and execution of a bold, customer-focused product strategy and vision for platform components to manage performance, power management, Customer Identity, and AI experiences to deliver a great holistic customer experience.
  • Lead initiatives in various stages of the lifecycle—from ideation to development to launch.
  • Write and clearly communicate thoughtful product strategies to offer the best Android benefits and Amazon's content and services, and translate them into actionable roadmaps.
  • Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture.
  • Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Proactively identify and resolve issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
  • Create buy-in for the product vision and strategy with leadership and internal partners, including Product leads, Engineering, UX, Legal, Finance, and more.
  • Drive product launches in partnership with Engineering, Business Development, Go to Market, PR, and other cross-functional teams.

A day in the life
While each day may differ, you will always learn something new, innovate and delight our customers, and grow. You will be the primary advocate of our customers and define the best product experiences for our next generation Amazon Tablets to delight them, while also adding business value. You will own the horizontal system platform software experience, providing detailed guidance to software teams across the entire software stack to deliver a great customer experience with the right technical tradeoffs. This could mean defining a product vision, partnering with engineering to optimize the product, or identifying ways to address customer feedback.

About the team
The Amazon Tablet team is a world-class team that delivers high-quality, innovative products that are loved by our customers. Our team focuses on spinning many of Amazon’s flywheels with bar-raising mobile experiences on our tablets. Over the last 12 years, we have built 4.0+ star rated products, and we continue to look for ways to scale our business. Join us as we continue our ambitious journey which will give you the opportunity to deliver disruptive products with global impact.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
  • Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
  • Experience with end to end product delivery
  • Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
  • Experience managing technical products or online services
  • Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
  • Bachelor's degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • MBA
  • Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
  • Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools

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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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


USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually

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