Principal Product Manager – Tech: Alexa Calendar, Alexa Daily Essentials

Amazon • Seattle, WA

54d

About The Position

Want to transform the way people interact with Alexa? This role will enable you
to shape how customers use the power of Alexa’s AI to keep their households
organized, coordinated and connected. Our vision is to build a calendar
assistant with full insight into the household schedule across personal and work
commitments, that rapidly adapts to customers' dynamic daily schedules,
anticipates scheduling and coordination needs, and proactively helps customers
avoid schedule issues and optimize their time.

In this role, you will be the single threaded owner of our consumer Calendar
experience on Alexa. Your ability to harness AI to deliver compelling customer
experiences will be critical to success. To succeed, you'll need to rely on a
combination of curiosity and expertise to shape your experiences. Your strategic
thinking skills, creativity, and ability to collaborate across cross-functional
teams will be key to success. This is an unparalleled opportunity to shape the
future of Alexa and ambient intelligence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience technical product management
• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)

Nice To Haves

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics
• Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units

Responsibilities

• Craft the vision, roadmap, and requirements for Alexa Calendar, including maintaining and expanding our existing offering while leaning into innovation with AI. This includes partnering with international teams to localize the experience for each region.
• Translate customer requirements into technical specifications, make trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, and collaborate with developers/managers to prioritize roadmaps and make technical decisions
• Own strategic planning and resourcing across the Food charter
• Work backwards from customer needs, identifying key goals, features, and execution strategies (e.g., PR-FAQs, BRDs)
• Recognize and scope new customer opportunities, execute strategies for user research and customer feedback collection, using both quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate opportunities
• Define the architectural and platform vision for the product space alongside your engineering partner team
• Collaborate with Science teams to define exemplars, test cases, and quality KPIs to maintain the customer experience quality bar
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for new features
• Communicate customer opportunities, business priorities, and performance metrics to executives

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