Principal Technical Product Manager, Special Projects

About the role

This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle seriously. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

Responsibilities

• Own reporting mechanisms and ensure data integrity at the VP/SVP level for multiple projects
• Communicate portfolio risks, updates, and forward-looking plans
• Work cross-functionally with technical teams on product definition and end-to-end roadmaps (e.g., defining objectives, milestones, and deliverables)
• Clearly and briefly articulate how product results impact downstream technical adoption and help define overall product strategy
• Influence key stakeholders through effective communication and strategic engagement to drive decision-making and project progression
• Lead multi-functional teams through both tactical and strategic decision points, understanding dependencies, risks, and mitigations
• Provide strategic insights on overall project and operational performance to ensure portfolio alignment, program prioritization, and efficient issue escalation
• Drive execution of program plans and critical decision-making, while taking accountability for ‘on time, on budget’ delivery of program goals and milestones
• Provide expert guidance on budget planning, forecasting, and leverage quantitative analytics to forecast time and cost to goals and milestones
• Support/manage cross-functional meetings, including scheduling logistics, creating and distributing meeting agendas and minutes, and driving completion of action items

A day in the life

You check in with teams developing products, talking to technical leads and engineers. Unexpected results in a recent test lead you to dig in to understand the issue better, huddle with relevant engineers and partner teams to formulate hypotheses for the issue, and test to validate them. Working with technical leads, you add roadmap items to validate hypotheses in the next development sprint, informing downstream customers of potential impact. You then write a document for senior leadership, focusing on recent progress and major decisions made, defining measures of success, elevating risks, and how you plan to mitigate them.

Requirements

• 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

Pay

USA, MA, Boston - $179,900.00 - $243,400.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.