Amazon

Senior Product Manager - Technical, Alexa Connections

Amazon$151K — $204K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 7+ years of experience in product management, program management, or technology
  • Proven experience owning and driving product roadmap strategy
  • Hands-on experience with product feature delivery and trade-offs
  • Experience in end-to-end product delivery
  • Ability to engage in engineering discussions around product technology and strategy
  • 5+ years of experience in building and growing profitable partner ecosystems

Responsibilities

  • Build trust-based relationships with communications partners to drive mutual wins
  • Co-create product strategies and define hero use cases with partners
  • Own the partner onboarding experience to streamline integration
  • Drive post-launch partner engagement to enhance adoption and measure impact
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to define APIs and platform capabilities
  • Represent Amazon at partner summits to attract new communications partners
  • Advocate for platform investments to enhance partner and customer experiences

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption reimbursement
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and EAP services
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager - Technical to own the strategy for building an ecosystem of communications partners on Alexa+. This role sits at the intersection of technical fluency, product management, business acumen, and developer advocacy. If you're passionate about working shoulder-to-shoulder with communications partners - understanding their roadmap, identifying mutual wins, and celebrating shared success - this role is for you. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Product Manager - Technical in Alexa Connections, you will have the below responsibilities. This role is cross-functional - you will work closely with engineering, science, design, business intelligence, operations, finance, legal, and executive teams to bring partnership experiences to market. * Partner Relationships: Build deep, trust-based relationships with communications partners - understanding their roadmap, technical constraints, and business goals to identify mutual wins * Product strategy and hero Use Cases: Co-create a compelling product strategy and align on hero use cases with partners that showcase what's possible when their platform meets Alexa+ * Seamless Onboarding: Own the end-to-end partner onboarding experience - reducing time-to-integration and removing friction so partners can go live on Alexa+ as fast as possible * Drive to Success: Partner closely with communications platforms post-launch to drive adoption, measure impact, and iterate toward shared success metrics * Internal Partnerships: Partner within engineering teams within Alexa to define integration points, APIs, and platform capabilities that enable seamless 3P developer experiences * Partner Summits & Advocacy: Represent Amazon at partner summits to attract new communications partners and grow the developer ecosystem on Alexa+ A successful candidate will have strong partner instincts, be able to work effectively in a matrix organization, and be adept at translating partner needs into platform capabilities that benefit customers. A day in the life As a partner product manager in Alexa, no two days are the same. You are the bridge between Amazon and our communications partners - owning the relationship, the integration experience, and the shared success. Weekly, you'll meet with partners to understand their roadmap and integration challenges, co-define hero use cases for Alexa+, analyze adoption metrics, write PRFAQs and BRDs for platform capabilities, and think big about which partners to attract next. Daily, you'll work across engineering, design, legal, BD, and senior leadership - synthesizing partner feedback, competitive intelligence, and technical constraints into cohesive strategy. You'll remove blockers for partners in flight and advocate for platform investments that make Alexa+ the best place for communications partners to build. People will look to you to connect the dots between what partners need and what our platform can deliver. Our partners are technical teams, so you'll use API specs, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation to understand challenges and communicate solutions." BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree - 7+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience - Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition - Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product - Experience with end to end product delivery - Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product - Experience working with a matrixed team of stakeholders to achieve a common goal or equivalent - Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning - 5+ years of building profitable partner ecosystems experience - Experience building and growing relationships with internal and external partners PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience designing digital communication systems - Experience communicating and delivering presentations to customers, stakeholders, and/or teammates - Experience building cross-platform abstraction layers - Experience in developer advocacy, developer evangelism, or partner enablement - Experience defining and tracking partner success metrics (adoption, engagement, time-to-integration) - Experience using AI tools to augment product management and partner strategy work - including competitive analysis, deep research in partner and third-party landscapes, and user segment analysis to define strategy and roadmap 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 - 173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually USA, WA, Seattle - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually

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