Principal Product Manager - Technical, Kindle Software

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal PM-T for Kindle, where your passion for reading and writing will drive innovative features for millions of customers. This role demands strategic vision and operational excellence as you collaborate with engineering, design, and analytics teams to enhance the Kindle experience. With a commitment to customer-focused innovation, you will influence product strategy and deliver impactful solutions that redefine digital reading. If you're ready to make a significant impact in the world of digital literature, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Equity Options

Sign-on Bonuses

Flexible Work Environment

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product or program management experience.
• Experience in driving product strategy and roadmap.
• Technical product management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive a bold vision for Kindle devices and features.
• Deliver a balanced product roadmap based on customer insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for product launches.

Skills

Product Management

Data Analysis

Roadmap Strategy

Feature Delivery

Technical Product Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Project Management Methodologies

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you an experienced product leader with a passion for shipping great products? Are you inspired by re-inventing how people read and write digitally? Do you like the idea of seeing your work impact millions of customers? Do you love to read? Answer yes to any of these and you belong with Amazon Kindle. Kindle is among the bestselling products in the history of Amazon, with a rich legacy for driving customer-focused innovation. Our continued growth requires leaders who operate both strategically and tactically; think big to drive new opportunities; dive deep in data to uncover customer insights; break down and solve complex problems; and drive operational excellence for their teams.

Kindle is looking for a Principal PM-T to set the software strategy for popular Kindle devices like Paperwhite, Colorsoft, and Scribe. Using customer insights and data-driven decision making, you'll develop intuitive features that help customers get more out of reading and writing on their Kindle devices.

This role is inherently cross-functional; you will work closely with engineering, design, research, analytics, and hardware teams to bring your vision to life, and ultimately deliver a delightful experience to our customers. If you're passionate about the future of reading and writing and building products that become an essential part of people's daily lives, this role offers you the chance to make a lasting impact on how people engage with the written word in the digital age.

Key job responsibilities
• Drive a bold vision for the future of reading and writing on Kindle devices like Paperwhite, Colorsoft, and Scribe.
• Deliver a roadmap that balances innovation with speed to deliver, and is grounded in deep customer and data insights.
• Serve as a key influencer in developing and auditing business strategy, contributing significantly to the overall Kindle strategy, and customer engagement and analytics.
• Work with teams across Amazon, and cross-functionally with design, research, engineering, and hardware team to deliver an inspiring product roadmap that balances short term wins with long term bets based on that vision.
• Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, legal, marketing, customer service and other product management team members.
• Role is global in nature and will work with teams in other countries.

About the team
The Kindle Software Product Management team owns the customer facing software experiences across all Kindle devices and apps - ranging from how you read, write, navigate, acquire content and more. We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to be the world's favorite place to read, write and get more out of reading.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 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 technical product management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
- Experience building software for consumer electronic devices.

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, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.