Do you like Amazon Alexa and have a passion for cars? You can be part of the team that will help shape the development and drive the launch of new voice-forward in-vehicle experiences with our strategic partners. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge automotive solutions that will be used every day by people you know.
The Amazon Smart Vehicles team is looking for a product leader to define and create the next generation automotive digital experiences, both in and around the car.
Key job responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will have launched multiple, impactful products, have demonstrated the ability to lead high-performance teams, and have deep understanding of product management, user experience, and software development processes (especially agile). You should be highly analytical, able to work effectively across teams, and thrive in entrepreneurial, fast-paced work environments. Key responsibilities include:
• Lead product strategy and vision supported by internal data and external analysis.
• Define creative, high quality, simple product requirements and roadmaps based on product strategy.
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support requirements.
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key partners
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver products to market using agile development methodologies.
• Stay current and report on industry trends, including new opportunities, competitor capabilities, etc.
• Measure and analyze existing products and business models for opportunities to innovate and improve, providing additional benefits to developers and customers
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
A day in the life
You will drive requirements and execution of an innovative experience on behalf of Amazon customers. This role has high visibility, cross-functional in nature, and, involves working with both internal teams at Amazon and external to the company. You will own product vision, synthesize customer and business requirements into product roadmaps, and, launch new features from start to finish. You will be a key champion of this product to the industry externally working directly with strategic partners.
- 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 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
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Master's degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics
- MBA