Principal, Product Mgmt - Tech, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT)

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

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the Outbound and Flow team within Fulfillment Technologies. You will drive vision and strategy, ingest shipments from SCOT, and optimize FC operations across regions.

Lead cross-functional efforts to deliver scalable software features, collaborate with engineering, operations, and safety teams, and push initiatives across director portfolios to improve DEA, speed, quality, and cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• 8+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Set a holistic vision for products and technologies in development.
• Manage relationships with leadership across AFT and stakeholders.
• Drive strategy and planning for expansion and year-over-year investments.
• Develop strong internal relationships and drive cross-team alignment.
• Establish priorities across multiple workstreams and initiatives.
• Unblock challenges and escalate when needed.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Software Development, Operations, Science, and EHS teams to deliver on strategic goals.
• Report monthly/quarterly business reviews and yearly strategy documents.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

End-to-end delivery

Technical product management

Engineering discussions

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Description

The Outbound and Flow team within the Amazon Fulfillment Technologies team is looking for an experienced Product Manager who will contribute to the vision and strategy of our products. Our team provides products and services responsible for outbound fulfillment - they ingest shipments from upstream systems (SCOT) and process them through picking, packing and shipping. Our vision is to improve customer experience - Delivery Estimate Accuracy (DEA), Speed, Quality and Cost, while improving associate safety and simplifying our operations. We do so by building products that are highly reliable, resilient, self-healing, scalable, extensible, and designed with focus on the safety and accessibility of our workforce from the start.

Description

The Outbound and Flow team within the Amazon Fulfillment Technologies team is looking for an experienced Product Manager who will contribute to the vision and strategy of our products. Our team provides products and services responsible for outbound fulfillment - they ingest shipments from upstream systems (SCOT) and process them through picking, packing and shipping. Our vision is to improve customer experience - Delivery Estimate Accuracy (DEA), Speed, Quality and Cost, while improving associate safety and simplifying our operations. We do so by building products that are highly reliable, resilient, self-healing, scalable, extensible, and designed with focus on the safety and accessibility of our workforce from the start. As a Principal Product Manager, you will drive innovative product features that help us deliver on this vision. You will work on identifying opportunities to make our FC operations more efficient, and drive design and development of software features to address these opportunities. You will drive the design and buildout of features to streamline Fulfillment center (FC) operations across different types and WW regions, while leveraging and expanding current initiatives in Primitives and GenAI across the organization. You will also serve as a product lead for cross outbound and flow initiatives that span multiple director portfolios

Key job responsibilities

Your Specific Responsibilities Include

• Setting a holistic vision for your products and technologies in development -- or haven't been invented yet.
• Managing relationships and reporting with leadership across AFT and our customers / stakeholders
• Driving strategy and planning for expansion and year-over-year investments across initiatives.
• Developing strong internal relationships with key internal stakeholders and drive cross-team and cross-org alignment.
• Establishing priorities across multiple workstreams and initiatives.
• Finding creative ways to unblock challenges that arise and deciding when to escalat.
• Working closely with Product Managers, Software Development, Operations, Science, and EHS teams to ensure investments and develop deliver on strategic goals.
• Reporting (monthly and quarterly business reviews, yearly strategy documents)

About The Team

AFT owns and operates the AFT Warehouse Management System (WMS) and select hardware– these technologies automate, orchestrate, and direct fulfillment in Amazon Robotics sort and non-sort buildings, traditional sort and non-sort buildings, IXDs, Fresh, Pantry, and Quick Deploy sites. AFT also owns and operates the FaaST Warehouse Management System (WMS) that runs in Vendor Flex buildings, India Mini-FCs (small footprint, manual buildings in IN), and select Seller Flex locations (3P Sellers who are Prime enabled leveraging the FaaST WMS). AFT also owns the External Fulfillment Platform (EFP), a technology that integrates 3P WMSes to the Amazon Supply Chain. AFT owns network infrastructure and devices in all building types including Sort Centers and Last Mile sites and owns labor planning and scheduling technology that is leveraged for Fulfillment Centers in NA and EU and Sort Centers in NA.

AFT General Summary

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

Outbound Flow

AFT’s Outbound Flow team pairs data science with innovative technologies to optimize throughput within every Amazon fulfillment center. We deliver smiles for Amazon customers with safe, sustainable, cost-effective, on-time package deliveries.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ 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 technical product management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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

Company

Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10528986