Sr. Product Manager - NLP, Alexa Japan

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Product Manager in the NLP domain to own the Japanese language experience for Alexa. This hybrid product and language technology role combines product strategy ownership with hands-on language engineering expertise to build and localize GenAI technology for the Japan market. As the single-threaded owner of the Japanese language capability bar, you will define the vision, roadmap, and success metrics while providing direct technical and linguistic support to global teams across ASR, TTS, NLU, and conversational AI. This high-visibility role impacts millions of Japanese customers and establishes Amazon's AI voice leadership in Japan. You will shape the future of Japanese AI voice technology at the intersection of product strategy and cutting-edge language technology. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable writing a product vision narrative for senior leadership as designing test sets to measure Japanese pitch accent accuracy, diagnosing error patterns, or automating evaluation pipelines. You can conduct deep dive analysis on language performance and bring compelling data to motivate change. You will work across Applied Science, Engineering, QA, UX, and business stakeholders in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, structuring problems into actionable frameworks that drive measurable outcomes. Key job responsibilities Product Strategy Ownership • Define and own…