Principal PMT, Alexa for Shopping: Partner Enablement

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle (WA) is seeking a Principal PMT for Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) Partner Enablement. You will own the product strategy and execution to empower internal partner teams to build, test, and operate customer experiences on AFS.

You will define multi-year roadmaps, reduce onboarding friction, and accelerate launch velocity by delivering scalable, self-service capabilities and modular prompt architecture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience.
• 8+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• Experience leading large projects through the full product development life cycle in a large, cross-functional team.
• Experience with software development lifecycle, or experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience leading and influencing your team or organization.
• Experience communicating product strategy and influencing decisions with senior leadership through written narratives and executive reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AFS Partner Enablement, building scalable self-service capabilities that enable Amazon teams to independently develop, launch, and operate high-quality AI shopping experiences.
• Define and deliver platform capabilities that reduce partner onboarding effort and increase innovation velocity, including self-service evaluation, agent routing, configurable customer experience frameworks, and modular prompt architecture.
• Drive prioritization of which partner experiences AFS supports, working backwards from customer impact, strategic alignment, and platform readiness to make investment tradeoffs across competing opportunities.
• Partner closely with engineering, science, UX, and partner product teams to define product requirements, influence technical architecture, and deliver solutions that improve extensibility, reliability, and quality across the AFS ecosystem.
• Lead cross-functional execution to enable strategic partner launches, translating launch learnings into reusable platform capabilities that increase partner independence and accelerate future innovation.
• Interface regularly with Directors and VPs across AFS and partner organizations to align on product strategy, roadmap priorities, resource investments, and launch readiness, influencing decisions through PRFAQs, strategic narratives, and executive reviews.
• Own partner escalations and resolve complex cross-organizational issues impacting partner launches, platform adoption, or customer experience, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term platform health and scalability.
• Establish mechanisms, success metrics, and operational reviews to measure partner onboarding, self-service adoption, launch velocity, customer quality, and ecosystem health, using data to prioritize future investments and continuously improve the partner experience.

Skills

Product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

AI products

Roadmapping

Platform thinking

Job description

Amazon in Seattle (WA) is seeking a Principal PMT for Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) Partner Enablement. You will own the product strategy and execution to empower internal partner teams to build, test, and operate customer experiences on AFS.

You will define multi-year roadmaps, reduce onboarding friction, and accelerate launch velocity by delivering scalable, self-service capabilities and modular prompt architecture.