Principal Product Manager Technical, Business Data Technologies

Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day, eCF builds for scale. As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group is no exception. We collect exabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside Amazon including the Amazon catalog system, inventory system, customer order system, page views on the website and Alexa systems. We also support Amazon subsidiaries such as IMDB and Audible. We provide interfaces for our internal customers to access and query the data hundreds of thousands of times per day, using Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Redshift, Hive, Spark and Oracle. We build scalable solutions that grow with the Amazon business.

BDT is growing, and the data processing landscape is shifting. Our data is consumed by thousands of teams across Amazon including Research Scientists, Machine Learning Specialists, Business Analysts and Data Engineers. BDT team is building an enterprise-wide managed solution that leverages AWS technologies. We enable teams at Amazon to produce analytical data in any form of storage (S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, etc.) and process that data using any type of compute environment such as EMR/Spark, Redshift, Athena, and others via a common bus. We are developing innovative products including the next-generation of data catalog, data discovery engine, data transformation platform, and more with state-of-the-art user experience. We’re looking for top leaders to design and build them from the ground up.

• We are looking for a Principal Product Manager Technical (PMT) who is capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done! A Principal PMT at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale. They own their products end to end and influence the direction of our product and technology which impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. You are a hands-on, pragmatic problem solver that easily balances trade-offs between competing interests. You thrive in a fast-moving team environment where you are able to juggle complex dependencies and requirements while producing optimal solutions. Ambiguity and creativity are both expected and the norm.
• This unique opportunity puts you in the driver’s seat to improve the efficiency and experience for our internal customers.

• Imagine:
• - Driving initiatives that have direct impact worldwide
• - Working with an empowered team of people in an environment that exudes customer obsession with every keystroke, every interaction
• - Working closely with your users to create fly-wheel effect for Amazon teams and customers
• - Networking with virtually every team within BDT as well as many outside of the team to solve collaborative problems

• Responsibilities - Leading ambiguous and undefined problems to resolution in the face of uncertainty.
• - Thinking big and working with leadership team, business stakeholders and software engineering teams to define vision, strategy and requirements.
• - Delivering results by driving execution of programs spanning multiple organizations from strategy to rollout.
• - Earning trust through regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control.
• - Effectively cooperate with customers, technical staff and leaders, business leaders and executives in different geographical locations to define and deliver complex features.
• - Ability to make sense of ambiguity, define and plan programs in a fast paced and highly-technical organization, and secure buy in from internal and external stakeholders
• - Effectively manage cross functional initiatives, dependencies and bottlenecks, provide escalations management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business need versus technical constraints and minimize business benefit while building great customer experience.
• - Be an effective collaborator in a cross functional team of SDMs, TPMs, PMs, FEEs, SDEs, Scientists, and PEs.
• - Own all business and operational metrics for your product.

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

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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, MI, Detroit - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually