Sr. Product Manager – Tech, Tablets

Job description

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Are you excited to play a strategic role in defining the future of Amazon tablets? Come join a dynamic, customer-obsessed, world-class product team to completely reshape the customer experience on our tablets.

We are looking for a highly technical product leader who wants to build Amazon's innovative new generation of tablet devices for adults and kids. This PM will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our next-gen core-tier tablets, delivering best in class hardware and end to end experiences that delight both adults and kids, and redefine their expectations of their tablets. With a deep knowledge and passion for tablets and portable device technologies, sensors, and customer empathy to inform meaningful innovation, this PM will prioritize and lead investment into new features and use cases for the next high-volume tablets. If you are a data-driven, customer focused, and deeply analytical product leader, this is the right role for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of a bold, customer-focused product strategy and vision for next-generation high-volume tablets for adults and kids to enable new use cases, delightful performance, and connected experiences to deliver a great holistic customer experience.
- Lead initiatives in various stages of the lifecycle—from ideation to development to launch.
- Drive device product launches, leading the full product life cycle from inception to mass production, in partnership with Engineering, Operations, Business Development, Go to Market, PR, and other cross-functional teams.
- Write and clearly communicate thoughtful product strategies to offer the best Android benefits and Amazon's content and services, and translate them into actionable roadmaps.
- Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create product specifications and architecture.
- Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance, and operational excellence.
- Proactively identify and resolve issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
- Create buy-in for the product vision and strategy with leadership and internal partners, including Product leads, Engineering, UX, Legal, Finance, and more.

A day in the life
While each day may differ, you will always learn something new, innovate and delight our customers, and grow. You will be the primary advocate of our customers and define the best product experiences for our next generation Amazon Tablets to delight them, while also adding business value. You will dive deep in customer data, category dynamics, and tech trends to define and gain buy-in for next gen device detailed features (HW and SW). You will work closely with an integrated core team to define detailed requirements, and move the product concept to execution through development, launch, and mass production. This includes executive communications, defining a product vision, partnering with engineering to optimize the product, and identifying ways to address customer feedback.

About the team
The Amazon Tablet team is a world-class team that delivers high-quality, innovative products that are loved by our customers. Our team focuses on spinning many of Amazon’s flywheels with bar-raising mobile experiences on our tablets. Over the last 12 years, we have built 4.0+ star rated products, and we continue to look for ways to scale our business. Join us as we continue our ambitious journey which will give you the opportunity to deliver disruptive products with global impact.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- 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
- Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA
- Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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