The role
From Amazon's own posting.
Do you want to be part of an innovative and rapidly growing business? Are you looking for a role with ownership, autonomy, and the ability to lead teams across the globe to launch AI/ML enterprise applications?
Then you should join the AFX Sales Planning Tools team. We provide the services, technology, and data to support the rapidly growing world-wide AWS Sales organization. This includes finding inventive ways to scale the business, which will be critical for AWS to continue its strong growth. Our team manages a portfolio of complex, high-impact, and intelligent planning tools, with an exciting multi-year product roadmap. These are global, enterprise grade web applications that are early and mid-stage in their lifecycle, and include both 1P and 3P products.
Our team is seeking a talented, innovative Product Manager with exceptional invent and simplify skillset, problem solving abilities, clear communication skills, and the ability to translate customers and business needs into inventive software solutions.
You will own the end to end development of a global, enterprise grade web-based sales planning application that is in its early stage and stands to deliver transformational value across the worldwide AWS Sales organization. You will work with a dedicated engineering team; our product team works with a 50 person, and growing, engineering team. You will define the product’s vision and strategy, including the delivery of automation and intelligent recommendations to drive a more efficient and effective Go-to-market sales plan for AWS. You will be responsible for roadmap development, product requirements management, stakeholder and customer engagement, leadership reviews, user testing, and launch strategy and execution. You will partner with engineering, global sales customers, a data science team, and other application owners across the SMGS organization.
Key job responsibilities
Develop product strategy and product definition.
Define and manage multi-year product roadmap, including introduction of Gen AI and ML to transform AWS planning.
Capture, document, and communicate business and technical product requirements.
Translate requirements into features and user stories. Drive technical team understanding of requirements.
Manage technical build against business requirements. Contribute to and influence technical decisions with engineering.
Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders from Global AWS Sales and Sales Operations teams and other System and Application teams across WWRO.
Lead document development for leadership reviews.
Own project status updates to customers, stakeholders, and leadership.
Plan and conduct user testing (UAT).
Drive change management and adoption of solution across AWS Sales and Sales Operations
Manage post-launch activities (user support, new feature development, etc.)
Establish KPIs, identify gaps, and improve performance and adoption of the platform.
Deep dive problems or opportunity areas and propose solutions to address.
About the team
We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Beyond a strong technical background and proven track record of product management, a successful candidate will have experience driving strategy and influencing executive leadership. We are looking for someone that is a self-starter, someone that approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity, and a person that dives below the surface to identify the root cause and "so what" rather than just superficial trends.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
- 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 using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, MA, Boston - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually