Amazon

Principal Product Manager, Personal Devices

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Proven experience in roadmap strategy and product definition
  • Hands-on experience in feature delivery and trade-off analysis
  • Background in technical product management
  • Preferred: Advanced degree (MS/MBA) in a relevant field
  • Preferred: Expertise in mobile device architectures and next-gen sensor technologies
  • Preferred: Experience with zero-to-one hardware product development

Responsibilities

  • Own the full product roadmap from concept to mass production
  • Drive selection and evaluation of emerging technologies and components
  • Lead cross-functional efforts among engineering, design, and operations teams
  • Manage complex technical and business trade-offs with analytical rigor
  • Champion customer experience in hardware development
  • Influence senior leadership with detailed product definitions
  • Set high standards for product quality and operational discipline

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Parental leave benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program and mental health support
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
As Principal Product Manager - Technical on the Personal Mobile Devices team, you will lead the vision, strategy, and end-to-end execution of one or more next-generation hardware products, defining device architectures, component strategies, and ID directions that will put transformative technology into the hands of millions of customers. This is not stewardship of an already defined roadmap. This is new-to-world device creation where every decision, every choice has to be rooted in delivering features that customers find useful, delightful and are willing to pay for. This is part vision, part curation and 100% responsibility for execution, shipping devices at scale and delighting our customers.

Key job responsibilities
• Own the end-to-end product roadmap from early concept through mass production, making disciplined trade-offs across compute, AI, graphics, performance, cost, power, and time-to-market.
• Drive the technology scouting and selection process Evaluate emerging components (chipsets, displays, sensors, batteries, connectivity modules) and make high-conviction bets on the technologies that will define the next product generation.
• Lead cross-functional execution across hardware engineering, industrial design, operations, supply chain, and software teams, ensuring tight integration from silicon to system to experience.
• Navigate deep technical and business ambiguity - structuring complex trade-off decisions (e.g., BOM cost vs. capability vs. schedule vs. customer hero features) with analytical rigor and sound product judgment.
• Champion the customer experience throughout the hardware development process, ensuring that every component choice, material selection, and design decision ladders up to a cohesive, delightful product that customers reach for every day.
• Influence senior leadership with compelling product definition docs grounded in customer insight, competitive analysis, technology trends, and business-case rigor.
• Raise the bar on hardware product craft across the organization, setting standards for meticulous attention to detail, technical depth, design excellence, and operational discipline.

About the team

Join a fast-paced, high energy, collaborative team working to define the future of Alexa powered Personal Devices! We can promise that you will work hard, do exciting work, and have the opportunity to invent and ship delightful devices and experiences for our customers, and in the process learn and grow.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree

- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

- Experience technical product management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- • Advanced degree (MS/MBA) in a relevant discipline.

- • Deep expertise in mobile device architectures, on-device AI/ML hardware acceleration, and next-generation sensor technologies.

- • Experience defining new hardware product categories or form factors (zero-to-one).

- • Track record of working with operations teams who manage global supply chain and manufacturing partnerships.

- • Familiarity with hardware-software co-design, particularly for AI-native device experiences.

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

About Amazon

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Amazon Careers

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