Principal Technical Product Manager, Special Projects

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); In loco; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Amazon Special Projects is seeking innovators to build entirely new products and services that positively impact customers. The team values Think Big leadership, inclusion, mentorship, and career growth while tackling ambitious challenges at scale.

You will own reporting mechanisms for multiple projects, collaborate with technical teams on product roadmaps, and influence stakeholders to drive decisive progress and strong program outcomes.

Mansioni

• Owns reporting mechanisms and ensures data integrity at the VP/SVP level for multiple projects
• Works cross-functionally with technical teams on product definition, end-to-end roadmaps (e.g. defining objectives, milestones, and deliverables)
• Clearly and briefly articulates how product results impact downstream technical adoption and helps define our overall product strategy
• Influences key stakeholders through effective communication and strategic engagement to drive decision making and project progression
• Leads multi-functional teams through both tactical and strategic decision points, understanding dependencies, risks and mitigations
• Provides strategic insights on overall project and operational performance to ensure portfolio alignment, program prioritization, and issue escalation are addressed efficiently
• Drives execution of program plans and critical decision making, while taking accountability for ‘on time, on budget’ delivery of program goals & milestones
• Provides expert guidance on budget planning, forecasting, and leverages quantitative analytics to forecast time and cost to goals & milestones
• Supports/manages cross-functional meetings, including scheduling logistics, the creation and distribution of meeting agendas and minutes, and drive completion of action items.

Descrizione del lavoro

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle seriously. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

Key job responsibilities

• Owns reporting mechanisms and ensures data integrity at the VP/SVP level for multiple projects, Communicating portfolio risks, updates and forward-looking plans
• Works cross-functionally with technical teams on product definition, end-to-end roadmaps (e.g. defining objectives, milestones, and deliverables)
• Clearly and briefly articulates how product results impact downstream technical adoption and helps define our overall product strategy
• Influences key stakeholders through effective communication and strategic engagement to drive decision making and project progression.
• Leads multi-functional teams through both tactical and strategic decision points, understanding dependencies, risks and mitigations
• Provides strategic insights on overall project and operational performance to ensure portfolio alignment, program prioritization, and issue escalation are addressed efficiently.
• Drives execution of program plans and critical decision making, while taking accountability for ‘on time, on budget’ delivery of program goals & milestones
• Provides expert guidance on budget planning, forecasting, and leverages quantitative analytics to forecast time and cost to goals & milestones.
• Supports/manages cross-functional meetings, including scheduling logistics, the creation and distribution of meeting agendas and minutes, and drive completion of action items.

A day in the life

You check in with teams developing products, talking to technical leads and engineers. Unexpected results in a recent test lead you to dig in to understand the issue better, huddle with relevant engineers and partner teams to formulate hypotheses for the issue, and test to validate them. Working with technical leads, you add roadmap items to validate hypotheses in the next development sprint, informing downstream customers of potential impact. You then write a document for senior leadership, focusing on recent progress and major decisions made, defining measures of success, elevating risks and how you plan to mitigate them.