Principal PMT, Rufus International

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Sign-on & RSUs

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a senior product leader to define the Rufus International vision and multi-year strategy. This role drives global expansion for an AI-powered shopping platform, shaping how customers worldwide discover, decide, and act on products.

The Principal PMT will own roadmaps, align cross-functional teams across product, engineering, science, and UX, and establish operating models to scale while reducing cost and complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience in technical product management, development, or technology.
• 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 Rufus International.
• Define capabilities and architectural investments to deliver Rufus globally.
• Incorporate international requirements into platform design from the outset.
• Prioritize global investments and resolve trade-offs across needs, requirements, complexity, and scalability.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, science, and UX to align roadmaps and resources globally.
• Define the global operating model to accelerate scale and minimize duplication.
• Represent Rufus International in Director/VP forums to align strategy and priorities.
• Establish metrics to measure global scalability and customer experience.

Skills

Roadmap strategy

Feature delivery tradeoffs

Technical product management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

We’re hiring a senior product leader to help shape the future of AI-powered shopping at Amazon.

Alexa for Shopping is reinventing how hundreds of millions of customers discover products, make decisions, and get things done, from finding the right product to tracking prices and automating everyday shopping tasks. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of generative AI, agentic experiences, and commerce at extraordinary scale.

The Principal PMT for Rufus International will define how we build Rufus for the world. This leader will own the product vision and multi-year technical strategy for global expansion, making "Worldwide from Day 1" the default across every marketplace and surface. They will identify and drive the foundational investments needed to dramatically reduce the time, cost, and complexity of bringing Rufus innovations to customers globally.

With Rufus already serving customers across Europe, Japan, India, and Canada, this is a rare opportunity to shape the architecture and operating model behind one of Amazon’s most ambitious global AI products. The Principal PMT will make consequential product and technical decisions spanning global feature parity, localization, skills and tool integrations, and platform evolution, while empowering international teams to innovate faster and build experiences tailored to their customers.

This is a highly visible, high-impact role at the intersection of generative AI, global commerce, and platform transformation. The Principal PMT will represent the Rufus International strategy in senior leadership forums and align leaders across product, engineering, science, and international teams on the priorities, investments, and trade-offs required to bring the future of AI-powered shopping to customers around the world.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Rufus International, making WW from Day 1 the default across locales and surfaces.
• Define the capabilities and architectural investments required to reduce the cost, effort, and time to deliver Rufus experiences globally.
• Shape technical and architectural decisions to ensure international requirements are incorporated into platform design from the outset.
• Prioritize global investments and resolve trade-offs across customer needs, market requirements, technical complexity, and long-term scalability.
• Partner with product, engineering, science, and UX leaders to align roadmaps, architecture, and resource investments around a common WW strategy.
• Define the global operating model across central and international teams to accelerate scale and minimize duplicated investment.
• Represent Rufus International in Director-and-VP-level forums, driving alignment on strategy, priorities, investments, and cross-organizational decisions.
• Establish mechanisms and success metrics to measure global scalability, customer experience quality, and the effectiveness of WW from Day 1 investments.

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
• development, or technology experience.
• Experience communicating product strategy and influencing decisions with senior leadership through written narratives and executive reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Experience defining and scaling technical platforms or self-service capabilities that enable multiple teams to independently build, launch, and operate customer-facing experiences.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process.

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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon.com Services LLC