Principal PMT, Software & Experiences, Personal Devices

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The person in this role will play a pivotal role in going from docs to delivery – from defined ‘hero experiences’ in PRFAQ docs for our constellation of Personal Devices to shipping them, working with partner teams, across device software, Alexa Core, Domains, and Design. Will understand key dependencies, partner roadmaps, evolving tech stacks, and AI models, early in the cycle and work to ensure a path to implementation; or influence the evolution of the stack to enable the experiences to ship. This role requires a multifaceted leader who will serve as a strategic leader, operational catalyst, cross-functional integrator, and execution-focused product leader. The successful candidate will champion the product vision with senior stakeholders, inspire and mobilize teams around specific experience development, navigate complex organizational dependencies while securing resource alignment, and maintain focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences across our device ecosystem. We are looking for a relentless product builder who will keep their ‘eyes on the prize’ and ship delightful experiences for customers on our Personal Devices. Requires technical sophistication to understand the entire software stack, from OS, to device software, to the Alexa system, visual design system, domain software and 3P service integrations. Requires the ability work with Principal / Senior Principal engineers, to participate in making the right architecture / implementation choices, for scalable horizontal software solutions to deliver common experiences across Personal Devices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience technical product management

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Ship ‘hero experiences’ across Personal Devices
• Map out dependencies across partner teams
• Work with individual product PMs to make requisite feature, schedule trade-offs
• Participate in quality & resource trade-offs
• Work continuously with key leaders, PMs / TPMs across partner teams to influence the art of the possible, in a resource constrained environment – to get great features and experiences built for Personal Devices
• Shipping features that have complex cross-org dependencies is the metric of success
• Imagine and drive the future of AI enriched experiences for future generations of Personal Devices, as well as participate in the definition of future categories of devices.
• Be a relentless advocate for Personal Devices – build / gain mindshare in partner orgs
• Inspire a desire to ship great experiences on these new and exciting Personal devices
• Prototype and demo experiences to inspire product building
• Hold a high bar on the quality of experiences, be a hands-on product maker, test experiences through the dev. cycle and provide input – demonstrate editorial capability and ‘product taste’
• Participate in and actively shape development of common set of ‘horizontal features’ across Personal Devices -> demonstrate ability to scale software investments.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal