Principal Product Manager - Tech, Partner-Branded Fire TV, Fire TV - Partner-Branded TVs

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Join Amazon's Fire TV organization as a Principal Product Manager - Technical, where you'll act as the Chief Product Officer (CPO) for a prestigious global TV brand's entire Fire TV lineup. This is your opportunity to drive product strategy and innovation for a world-class partner whose devices deliver entertainment experiences to millions of customers across the globe. We power Fire TV's expansion across the global smart TV landscape by building the enterprise tools and services that enable TV manufacturers to bring Fire TV to millions of customers. Our diverse, international team embodies Amazon's "Day 1" mindset – we're scrappy problem-solvers who find creative ways to deliver results, but we never lose our sense of humor along the way. Whether we're streamlining factory processes in China or debugging validation tools in Bengaluru, we're laser focused on our partners' success. If you're energized by complex challenges and passionate about building tools that scale, we'd love to have you join us.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
• Bachelor's degree
• 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
• Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese (written and verbal)
• 4+ years of experience working on products that require tight hardware-software co-development, including platform software integration, performance tuning, and cross-functional collaboration among hardware, software, and firmware teams
• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• 2+ years of consumer electronics experience
• Experience working with smart TVs, streaming devices, set-top boxes, soundbars, or other connected entertainment/living room devices

Responsibilities

• Understand the needs and related trends for customers, TV partners, and offline consumer electronics retailers
• Keep abreast with the technologies and trends related to TVs
• Work closely with the TV partner to define a strategy that drives growth, innovation and delights customers
• Define the global roadmap for TVs including TV line-up, specifications, software features working backwards from customers, partners, industry and business needs
• Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture for each product and application
• Work closely with engineering, program management, and QA teams to implement and deliver the product, on-time and exceeding a high-quality bar
• Drive decisions across cross-functional teams that include engineering, UX and commercial teams.
• Drive product launches in concert with Engineering, Go to Market, operations, PR and other teams
• Work with TV partners on defining the product roadmap, product requirements
• Write BRDs, strategy docs, or PRFAQs
• Work with engineering and other tech teams to build the product and see them through launch
• Work with go-to-market, business development, finance, PR and other internal teams on the launch of TVs

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

What This Job Offers

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