Amazon

Chief of Staff, Devices HW Product Development

Amazon$206K — $279K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in technical product or program management
  • 6+ years working directly with engineering teams
  • Experience with end-to-end product delivery
  • Experience owning and driving roadmap strategy
  • Experience in feature delivery tradeoffs
  • Experience in engineering discussions about technology strategy

Responsibilities

  • Develop resource requirements for product development aligned with roadmap programs
  • Coordinate the forecasting and reporting of resource requirements
  • Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives for the Hardware organization
  • Translate strategic plans into actionable projects with defined requirements
  • Extract insights from historical data trends for senior leadership
  • Design scalable plans for long-term strategic operational efficiency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Mental Health Support and EAP services
Full Job Description
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!

Key job 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.

About the team

We are a team of hardware engineers with varying engineering backgrounds. We thrive at problem solving, driving leadership decisions, looking around corners, and leading teams to bring devices to market!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 206,900.00 - 279,900.00 USD annually

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