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Excited about Alexa, and how it solves the various needs of our millions of customers in the Smart Home space? The Alexa Smart Home team is innovating everyday to make customers' lives easier regardless of how they choose to interact with Alexa and is looking for a product leader to drive key initiatives on the Alexa mobile app and FireTV.

As a Principal Technical Product Manager in the Alexa Smart Home group, you will help create and drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap, with a high degree of ownership over critical features and the customer experience. This role is inherently cross-functional - you will work closely with engineering, design, marketing, user research, finance, other devices teams, and executive teams to envision, develop, and launch innovative products.

A successful candidate will be both creative and highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively in a matrix organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into products and applications that customers love. We are looking for someone customer obsessed and technology savvy, with a proven track record of creating successful consumer products and services.

Join us. Have fun. Make history.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage the entire product life cycle from inception to launch

• Drive the development of the strategy, roadmap, and business plan for your product areas while working with various teams.

• Be a passionate advocate for the customer; understand and articulate customer needs, conduct ongoing customer research, leverage internal knowledge and expertise, and prioritize market requirements

• Inspire the team with the product vision, and work cross-functionally to bring that vision to life

• Write requirements documents, define use cases and CX, and own the business metrics and KPIs for your products and services

• Drive product launches, including working with public relations, marketing, executives, and other product management team members

• Serve as the product expert, assisting marketing with press briefing, industry talks, and white papers

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements

• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $144,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.