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Description
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. One customer experience that we’re constantly looking to take to a new level is how we fulfill and deliver orders. Our goal is to exceed the expectations of all our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small are delivered where and when they need them, as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, Amazon is continually striving to innovate and provide best in class service levels through the introduction of pioneering new products and services in the last mile delivery space.
The last mile Routing and Planning tech team is at the heart of our growing logistics network at Amazon. We’re challenged to constantly improve and innovate on our vehicle routing software and tools to better support fast and high-quality delivery to customers. We have among the most complex vehicle routing problems in the industry, including large fleet with diverse capacities, diverse package profiles, and time windowed routing problems. We dispatch thousands of drivers a day to carry millions of packages to our customers.
The last mile routing and planning team is looking for a technically strong, detail oriented Principal Product Manager-Technical with a strong track record of delivering transformational products who can own and deliver the next generation containerization and routing framework for Amazon Logistics.
The Team: How often have you had an opportunity to be a member of a team launching unique customer and driver experiences across the globe? You can expect all the challenges and benefits of a high-profile business: wide-open space for improvement and innovation, a strong team, and a fast-paced environment. These will require a willingness to dive into the details, solve new problems as they arise, think big, leverage high judgment and gut instinct, look around corners, and always obsess over customers.
The Role: You are results oriented and have thrived and succeeded in launching new transformational products under tight deadlines. In addition to product management and technical skills, the role requires a strong operational focus. You will need to constantly look for optimization areas, work with science and tech on implementing the roadmap, track progress and define how we scale; Ability to influence, analytical ability, strong tracking/monitoring capabilities, exceptional communication skills and leadership are essential to success in this role.
The pay-off is high ownership, an ability to deliver results, execute launches with high quality and raise the bar for how we expand our logistics programs. You will interact closely with the business team, the technology team, and the supply chain/operations team to identify/manage critical projects.
Key job responsibilities
Build a cohesive long-term product vision and both long-term and short-term product strategy/plan across a product or suite of products
Lead a high performing team of Senior and Principal PMTs to envision ideas to transform the space then execute against them
Build scalable mechanisms to ingrain product thinking into not only product folks but into the broader set of stakeholders across the organization
Define new products and drive alignment across multiple business and technical stakeholder teams
Scope large projects, manage project timelines, and communicate to senior leadership (VP+) on status, risks, and process/product changes
Create long-term product vision, influence partner teams towards that vision, and determine and build business metrics to help prioritize and drive execution towards the vision
Collect business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, write specifications, work with software teams to produce project schedules from design to release, and manage the production launch
Leads and coordinate design & implementation efforts between internal and external tech and business teams to develop optimal planning solutions
Work with multiple teams to build software that integrates multiple heterogeneous data sources into elegant software platforms to help us build efficient, flexible, and scalable solutions
Use this intelligence to expose trends and drive decisions for our stakeholders
Work with business owners to validate assumptions and ask questions to fill in knowledge gaps to ensure that the correct systems are built
Engage with all types of customers ranging from executives to developers
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of 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.