Principal Accessibility Product Manager, Devices \u0026 Services
Seattle, Washington
Employer: Amazon
Industry: Project/Program/Product Management--Technical
Salary: $129500 per year
Job type: Full-Time
We are looking for an exceptionally motivated, talented, and experienced Accessibility Principal Product Manager with strong customer obsession and a track record of driving organization change. You will be responsible for driving existing and new accessibility initiatives for customers with disabilities, including inventing new ways for customers with disabilities to interact with our diverse set of devices and services offerings; and you will lead projects staffed both with our Device Accessibility engineering team, as well as those staffed by engineering partner teams within Devices & Services.
This role requires a high degree of autonomy, drive, and the ability to problem solve. You will be well suited to this role if you are customer-focused, resourceful, team-oriented, and have an ability to work independently under time constraints. You will work and influence internal and external stakeholders, manage cross functional programs, and be able to help prioritize amidst ambitious goals and timelines.
Key job responsibilities
- Developing our multi-year accessibility strategy, for serving customers with disabilities with our devices & services
- Reviewing product roadmaps across Devices & Services, and drafting proposals for how to best address accessibility in those roadmaps
- Drafting and presenting specific proposals for new accessibility features to leadership
- Working with user research to better understand user needs and desires, and how well particular designs and approaches are accepted by customers
- Working with accessibility engineering and prototyping to explore accessible user interaction models
- Working with QA to provide guidance on issue priority
About the team
You would be joining Amazon's largest, and longest tenured, accessibility team. Over the past decade, their work was recognized by American Foundation for the Blind with their Helen Keller Achievement award, by Disability:IN with their Marketplace Innovator award, and by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with the FCC Chairman's Award for Advancements in Accessibility (among others). Your colleagues bring over a century of combined experience in the field, and include Amazon's sole MacArthur Fellow, and two of the only three people to be recognized twice with Helen Keller Achievement Awards for their work.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- 10+ years of blending product and program management skills to execute strategic initiatives about process creation, standardization, and improvement experience
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience as a product manager or owner
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Track record of delivering accessibility features at scale
- Experience with a broad range of disability needs and accessibility solutions
- Strong relationships with disability organizations
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 $129,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $240,900/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.
This role requires a high degree of autonomy, drive, and the ability to problem solve. You will be well suited to this role if you are customer-focused, resourceful, team-oriented, and have an ability to work independently under time constraints. You will work and influence internal and external stakeholders, manage cross functional programs, and be able to help prioritize amidst ambitious goals and timelines.
Key job responsibilities
- Developing our multi-year accessibility strategy, for serving customers with disabilities with our devices & services
- Reviewing product roadmaps across Devices & Services, and drafting proposals for how to best address accessibility in those roadmaps
- Drafting and presenting specific proposals for new accessibility features to leadership
- Working with user research to better understand user needs and desires, and how well particular designs and approaches are accepted by customers
- Working with accessibility engineering and prototyping to explore accessible user interaction models
- Working with QA to provide guidance on issue priority
About the team
You would be joining Amazon's largest, and longest tenured, accessibility team. Over the past decade, their work was recognized by American Foundation for the Blind with their Helen Keller Achievement award, by Disability:IN with their Marketplace Innovator award, and by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with the FCC Chairman's Award for Advancements in Accessibility (among others). Your colleagues bring over a century of combined experience in the field, and include Amazon's sole MacArthur Fellow, and two of the only three people to be recognized twice with Helen Keller Achievement Awards for their work.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- 10+ years of blending product and program management skills to execute strategic initiatives about process creation, standardization, and improvement experience
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience as a product manager or owner
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Track record of delivering accessibility features at scale
- Experience with a broad range of disability needs and accessibility solutions
- Strong relationships with disability organizations
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 $129,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $240,900/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.
Created: 2024-04-24
Reference: 2615998
Country: United States
State: Washington
City: Seattle
ZIP: 98109
About Amazon
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Number of Employees: 1600000
Website: https://www.amazon.com/
Career site: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/
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