Amazon

Principal Technical Product Manager, Special Projects

Amazon$179K — $243K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Proven experience in roadmap strategy and definition ownership
  • Strong background in feature delivery and product trade-offs
  • Technical product management expertise preferred
  • Experience working directly with engineers for product enhancements
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies or business analysis

Responsibilities

  • Own and ensure data integrity for reporting at VP/SVP level
  • Collaborate with technical teams to define product objectives and deliverables
  • Articulate product results and their impact on adoption
  • Influence stakeholders for effective decision making
  • Lead cross-functional teams through strategic and tactical decisions
  • Provide insights on project performance and operational alignment
  • Drive execution of program plans ensuring goals are met on time and budget

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health Support
Full Job Description
Key job responsibilities
• Owns reporting mechanisms and ensures data integrity at the VP/SVP level for multiple projects, Communicating portfolio risks, updates and forward-looking plans
• Works cross-functionally with technical teams on product definition, end-to-end roadmaps (e.g. defining objectives, milestones, and deliverables)
• Clearly and briefly articulates how product results impact downstream technical adoption and helps define our overall product strategy
• Influences key stakeholders through effective communication and strategic engagement to drive decision making and project progression.
• Leads multi-functional teams through both tactical and strategic decision points, understanding dependencies, risks and mitigations
• Provides strategic insights on overall project and operational performance to ensure portfolio alignment, program prioritization, and issue escalation are addressed efficiently.
• Drives execution of program plans and critical decision making, while taking accountability for 'on time, on budget' delivery of program goals & milestones
• Provides expert guidance on budget planning, forecasting, and leverages quantitative analytics to forecast time and cost to goals & milestones.
• Supports/manages cross-functional meetings, including scheduling logistics, the creation and distribution of meeting agendas and minutes, and drive completion of action items.

A day in the life

You check in with teams developing products, talking to technical leads and engineers. Unexpected results in a recent test lead you to dig in to understand the issue better, huddle with relevant engineers and partner teams to formulate hypotheses for the issue, and test to validate them. Working with technical leads, you add roadmap items to validate hypotheses in the next development sprint, informing downstream customers of potential impact. You then write a document for senior leadership, focusing on recent progress and major decisions made, defining measures of success, elevating risks and how you plan to mitigate them.

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

- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements

- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

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, MA, Boston - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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