Principal Product Manager

Job Description

Programming and Audience development is looking for a highly technical Principal Technical Product Manager who enjoys solving ambiguous and complex business problems that have global entertainment impact. This is an opportunity to have significant influence on the technical drivers and automation of our Consumer Insights and Programming Strategy work flows and delivery of Amazon's key programming and audience initiatives globally.

We derive key insights to improve programming direction and customer obsession for Amazon Studios. Familiarity with Redshift, SQL, Airtable, Tableau, and survey systems will be a huge bonus. Our technical challenges involve a combination of aggregating of preexisting tools and models, back-end software engineering, user interface development, and data lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will draw upon critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. A proven record of driving and delivering lasting, large-scale systems is necessary. Using data to measure and enhance our programming and consumer insights products, you will model operational excellence and drive alignment with architectural standards within the portfolio of tools. The person must also be a strong leader who can drive consensus across cross-functional business and technical teams and be an excellent communicator who can articulate functional and technical design tradeoffs.

Main responsibilities:
• Create the departmental product strategy for our portfolio of Consumer Insights and Programming internal applications and tools.
• Build a Consumer Insights product that integrates with current Programming Product work streams.
• Interface with internal product/design owners to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress.
• Partner with stakeholders to define and maintain a product vision and roadmap and drive the evaluation, selection, implementation, and scaling of technology solutions as needed.
• Drive product prioritization and detailed product definition for the user experiences, interfaces, and features within the Studios organization.
• Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution.
• Work directly with UX researchers, designers, vendors, and internal data and software engineering teams to execute and deliver on the product roadmap
• Research and identify new opportunities for Studios to innovate on behalf of our customers.
• Model transparency and accountability by reporting on product roadmap and program progress and results; drive action planning based on insights
• Ensure solution adoption and success by employing appropriate change management strategies

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 1+ years of experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience with product cycles of 6+ months
• Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology
• 7+ years of experience leading the work of vendor and internal software development teams
• 7+ years of experience using data and analytics to solve business problems and evolve technologies
• 7+ years of product management experience with completion of full product lifecycle (from concept through GTM)
• 7+ years of software development experience and 3+ years of project management experience
• High technical acumen. Can dissect complicated technical problems, simplify experiences and innovate on behalf of our customers
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience using user research methodologies and findings to drive product enhancements
• Clear understanding and emphasis on customer-centered usability and design.
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience defining and executing a product or feature launch or change management strategy
• Experience in learning and development, sales enablement, marketing, or editorial domains
• Experience supporting knowledge management, collaboration, learning management, search, or content management applications, such as a corporate intranet or knowledge base
• Experience in managing large-scale enterprise projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present information in a clear and concise manner to various technical, business stakeholder, and leadership audiences
• Proven ability to work on cross-functional teams and communicate with colleagues in both business and technical roles

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