The Senior Product Manager - Technical (PM-T) will lead the discovery, definition, and delivery of capabilities required to launch and expand Amazon Leo's eCommerce presence into new geographies. This role involves working on complex, high-impact challenges - from understanding regulatory and technical requirements unique to each market, to building scalable solutions that accelerate country readiness.
The PM-T will partner closely with engineering, legal, and business teams to define requirements, drive technical architecture decisions, and ensure the right foundations are in place for a successful launch. This is a high-visibility role at the intersection of product strategy and technical execution, with direct impact on Amazon Leo's global expansion roadmap.
Key job responsibilities
Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for country expansion, setting the technical direction for launching eCommerce into new geographies while balancing speed-to-market with longterm scalability
Own and instrument readiness as a gating input metric for country launch sequencing. Define, track, and optimize compliance readiness scores across target geographies to accelerate launch timelines.
Identify and prioritize regulatory, technical, and customer experience requirements across the full LBGUPS (Learn, Buy, Get, Use, Pay, Serve) journey, translating country-specific needs into clear product specifications for engineering teams.
Serve as the single-threaded owner for cross-functional alignment across engineering, legal, finance, operations, and business development, ensuring launch milestones and dependencies are clearly defined and tracked
Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership through well-structured written documents, and establish launch readiness criteria to validate country readiness before go-live
Capture learnings from each launch to continuously improve the expansion playbook and identify opportunities to automate repeatable country tasks.
Conduct direct customer discovery in target geographies to validate LBGUPS journey gaps and distinguish regulatory constraints from genuine customer needs.
Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
A day in the life
As a PM-T on the Country Expansion team, your day is a blend of technical problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration. You'll work with engineering, legal, and business teams across geographies to define requirements, resolve blockers, and drive decisions that determine whether a new country launches on time. From reviewing country-specific technical solutions to aligning on Shared Capabilities that accelerate future expansions, every decision you make today builds the foundation for customers in new geographies to seamlessly discover, buy, and receive products.
About the team
The Country Expansion team is at the forefront of bringing Amazon Leo's eCommerce experience to customers in new geographies. We tackle some of the most complex and rewarding challenges in the company - navigating country-specific regulatory requirements, building Shared Capabilities that scale across geographies, and partnering with teams across engineering, legal, finance, and operations to make every launch a success. If you're energized by ambiguity, thrive at the intersection of technical depth and strategic thinking, and want your work to directly shape how millions of new customers experience Amazon Leo for the first time, this is the team for you.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
- 6+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- 3+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
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, WA, Redmond - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
