Chief of Staff, Devices HW Product Development
About The Position
Amazon Lab126 is looking for a Chief of Staff to join the Hardware Strategy & Ops team based in Sunnyvale. This role supports the Director of Product Development and their direct staff. In order to support the broader Hardware org's objectives, this role will bridge critical data and insights with strategic planning and operational mechanisms. This is a senior position that is responsible for driving long term initiatives to meet business goals. A excellent candidate will present high judgement, excellent analytical abilities, and a creative mind to invent solutions to new and old problems. You will collaborate with various business, operations, financial, and engineering teams across Amazon. If you are someone who is naturally curious and passionate about working with large datasets, systematically breaks down highly complex and ambiguous problems with ease and who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to speak with you!
Requirements
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- 6+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 6+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Responsibilities
- Develop and align resource requirements for the Hardware Product Development organization to deliver against roadmap programs.
- Coordinate and drive the process for forecasting/reporting actual resource requirements and analysis for both individual program-level reviews as well as annual planning cycles.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize the capacity of the Hardware organization and ensure we have the right teams in place to deliver against the device roadmap.
- Translate key strategic plans into projects, identifying requirements and relevant stakeholder groups.
- Develop insights from the historical trends, including reports and documents, share and interpret those learning with senior leadership.
- Actively explore and design scalable execution plans for long-term strategic planning opportunities to improve operational efficiency in execution and scaling of the Hardware Organization.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
