Principal Product Manager - Tech, Alexa, Alexa AI Developer Tech

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Alexa, Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Model, Business Processes, Communication Skills, Customer Experience, Ecosystems, Establish Priorities, Financial Strategy, Internet of Things, Marketing Requirements Document (MRD), Metrics, Needs Assessment, Performance Management, Performance Metrics, Problem Solving Skills, Process Development, Process Improvement, Product Management, Product Planning, Product Requirements Document (PRD), Product/Service Launch, Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relations, Reporting Skills, Requirements Management, Software Development, Speech Technology, Support Documentation, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Are you passionate about innovative technologies like speech and IoT? Interested in Amazon Alexa, the brain behind Amazon Echo? The Amazon Alexa team is looking for an experienced Product Management leader to define the end-to-end vision and strategy of the Alexa Skills Kit, the developer SDK and platform that allows 3rd party developers to create skills for Amazon Alexa.

You will understand customer requirements and then be responsible for creating and driving product roadmaps and features. In this role you will work directly with third party developers to understand their needs and aspirations. You will create business requirements documents and develop a long term roadmap for tools, APIs, documentation and developer support. Your goal will be to create an efficient 3rd party developer pipeline, following the developer all the way from education into having successful, certified skills.

A successful candidate will have strong passion for developers and experience in designing platform strategies. You have a background in software development and product management, specific to software platforms and ecosystems. You must be highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively across multiple organizations, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that developers and customers love.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Write product/marketing requirements documents and ensure clear communication and coordination of requirements to the business, design and development teams.
  • Contribute to the overall product roadmap, and manage prioritization and tradeoffs against developer experience, customer experience, and time to market.
  • Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners.
  • Establish business processes and policies as well as metrics and indicators for success.
  • Measure and analyze existing products and business models for opportunities to innovate and improve, providing additional benefits to developers and customers.
  • Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
  • Develop, report, and continually improve business performance metrics
  • Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
  • Manage a team of Product Managers and TPMs to develop the roadmap and deliver key features into the Alexa Skills Kit.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

  • Exhibits excellent judgment
  • Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
  • Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
  • Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
  • Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
  • Is strongly oriented towards results
  • Thinks big

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles