The role
From Amazon's own posting.
In this role, you will lead the development and launch of some of Fire TV's best selling devices as well as develop new ones. You will make high judgment decisions, present persuasive cases to executive leadership and have enduring impact on the future of Fire TV. You will work closely with a high-energy team consisting of HW, OS and software engineering, user experience, finance, marketing, customer service, and Amazon leadership, and ship devices to customers globally. You will lead large teams of 50+ team members through high complexity and high ambiguity product development cycles, while building excellent intuition for one-way door decisions. In this role you will also work on hardware systems and platform Software/OS – bringing in your unique perspective into the complex systems that make winning products.
You will work with a broad array of technical and non-tech stakeholders – from design to architecture and core technologies all the way through product development and commercialization. You will have visibility at the highest levels of Amazon's leadership team, and work on our most strategic future initiatives. You will innovate on new devices, features and experiences, even as you manage the operational rigor of rolling out high quality devices on time and within budget. Finally your team will ship - to millions of customers at a scale that only Fire TV can enable.
This role is a good fit for someone creative, who has strong customer focus and product sense, combined with an established track record in consumer technology products, connected devices, and a real passion for TV and mobile video entertainment.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead the development of the consumer-focused product strategy and vision for next-generation devices and experiences
- Oversee programs in various stages of the lifecycle- from ideation to development to launch/retirement.
- Define creative, high quality, long term product roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
- Develop detailed business requirements and user stories that are used to create product specifications and architecture for each product and application
- Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support load
- Drive product launches in concert with Engineering, Operations Go to Market, PR, and other Product teams
- Create buy-in for the product/feature/service vision and strategy with technical and leadership teams
- Operate with influence across a variety of cross functional technical, design and commercial teams
- 8+ 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 technical product management
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
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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, Seattle - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually