Sr Manager, Annotation Ops Integration, GO-AI

Amazon; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Dev Center India - Hyderabad is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Product Management to lead GO-AI central operations, including quality, labor planning, and capacity management. The role drives strategy, scalability, and workforce development across a distributed team.

You will own capacity planning, process improvements, and tool adoption to optimize efficiency while partnering with engineering, science, and product leadership on roadmap execution and AI-enabled process improvements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 6+ years of team management experience.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or equivalent.
• Experience working cross-functionally across several teams both technical and non-technical.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy for GO-AI's central operations capabilities, ensuring quality, capacity, and people development functions operate as a unified, scalable system
• Deliver annual operational efficiency targets through kaizen, process automation, and workforce utilization improvements
• Translate variable customer demand into reliable capacity plans that balance cost, quality, and delivery speed
• Convert program-specific operational patterns into standardized service offerings that scale across the portfolio
• Own the associate lifecycle from onboarding through upskilling, ensuring workforce readiness keeps pace with new program launches and evolving AI model requirements
• Lead tool strategy for workforce planning and capacity management, driving adoption of platforms that replace manual processes
• Represent operations in cross-functional forums with engineering, science, and product leadership
• Lead and develop a geographically distributed team across the United States, India, and Costa Rica, ensuring alignment and operational consistency across time zones

Skills

Technical product management

Roadmap strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Team management

Capacity planning

Operations planning

Business analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Description

GO-AI is a technology enablement organization that accelerates the development and enhances the performance of AI-based robotic and automation solutions for Amazon Robotics (AR) and key Worldwide Operations programs. We combine human expertise with machine learning to produce high-quality training data, validate model outputs, and continuously improve AI system performance across many annotation programs and a large global workforce.

GO-AI is a technology enablement organization that accelerates the development and enhances the performance of AI-based robotic and automation solutions for Amazon Robotics (AR) and key Worldwide Operations programs. We combine human expertise with machine learning to produce high-quality training data, validate model outputs, and continuously improve AI system performance across many annotation programs and a large global workforce.

This Senior Manager, Technical Product Management will lead central operations functions within GO-AI, including quality assurance, labor planning and capacity management, and people development initiatives (upskilling, learning programs, career progression). You will own the strategy for GO-AI operations capabilities and evolution, translating demand signals into production-ready capacity plans and converting program-specific operational patterns into scalable, repeatable processes. You will drive operational efficiency initiatives, evaluate and adopt tools to improve workforce planning and utilization, and lead AI-enabled process improvement across the organization.

As GO-AI evolves from a labor-led service to a tech-enabled operation, this role will ensure the operational foundation, including workforce readiness, quality standards, and capacity planning, adapts in step with that transformation.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy for GO-AI's central operations capabilities, ensuring quality, capacity, and people development functions operate as a unified, scalable system
• Deliver annual operational efficiency targets through kaizen, process automation, and workforce utilization improvements
• Translate variable customer demand into reliable capacity plans that balance cost, quality, and delivery speed
• Convert program-specific operational patterns into standardized service offerings that scale across the portfolio
• Own the associate lifecycle from onboarding through upskilling, ensuring workforce readiness keeps pace with new program launches and evolving AI model requirements
• Lead tool strategy for workforce planning and capacity management, driving adoption of platforms that replace manual processes
• Represent operations in cross-functional forums with engineering, science, and product leadership
• Lead and develop a geographically distributed team across the United States, India, and Costa Rica, ensuring alignment and operational consistency across time zones

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 6+ years of team management experience
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or equivalent
• Experience working cross-functionally across several teams both technical and non-technical

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering consumer software products and services in a high growth environment
• Experience in a fast-paced, automated, industrial, logistics, production or manufacturing environment
• Experience in operations planning for AI/ML data production, annotation, or expert workforce operations
• Track record converting bespoke operational solutions into standardized, repeatable service offerings
• Experience driving AI adoption or process automation within an operations organization
• Familiarity with make/buy decisions for operational software tools (WFM, scheduling, planning platforms)

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Company

Amazon Dev Center India - Hyderabad

Job ID: A10509802