Principal, Product Mgmt - Tech, Inventory Services

Do you want to join an innovative team of product managers who create state-of-the-art solutions that provide value to Amazon, suppliers, and customers? Do you have a desire to understand and evolve technical architectures? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems and success measurements, and directly impact the profitability of the company? Are you interested in being part of a highly-distributed, large-scale, real-time systems for Amazon Sellers, Amazon's fastest growing multi-billion dollar business? Do you love to conceptualize and build applications from grounds-up? If yes, then our team, the largest data platform in Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) - Inventory Optimization (FIO) team wants you.

We are looking for a Principal Product Mgmt - Tech to own vision, planning, execution, and delivery of the inventory technology Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which provides foundational inventory information for finance, accounting, business functions, and operations to achieve their goals. You will broadly understand the end-to-end supply chain, accounting processes, and Amazon businesses, which will be the foundation to anticipating future needs and extrapolating them into long-term business and technical strategies. You will partner with your customers and build consensus on the business and technology strategy for inventory technology PaaS. You will outline and influence the technical design at all product life cycle stages (discovery, adoption, optimization, and service evolution).

We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for the platform vision and execution of ideas. You will have the opportunity to engage with systems that are at the cutting edge of technology. You will work directly with client business teams, service owners and utilize cutting edge technology to develop innovative solutions. You prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You are proactive in removing roadblocks, and can handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You will be a positive influencer across diverse teams, be able to rally support for initiatives and be able to help teams create simple solutions to meet platform goals. You are able to handle business escalations with a data-driven approach to build trust with both engineers and senior leaders.

Key job responsibilities

This Principal Product Mgmt - Tech role is pivotal to delivering an exceptional experience for sellers, their customers, and internal teams. This leader will partner with software engineering to develop and maintain highly scalable, highly available inventory web services and systems at the heart of our technology offerings. These services support the FBA and Retail business globally, through rapidly evolving and complex demands, dependencies on international development teams, and a high availability environment.

This leader will:

1. Work with senior leaders in FBA to define the product strategy and roadmap

2. Lead high-quality execution of software products against project plans and delivery commitments

3. Build and develop a high performance product and software team

4. Create success measurements linked to financials and client experience, and set goal targets for these measurements.

5. Work directly with software and product teams across the globe

6. Have broad understanding of systems/technologies and apply this technical knowledge to invent, evolve, improve, and simplify

7. Define the strategic vision and the long-term roadmap to achieve it, ensuring you are working backwards from customers and utilizing data analysis to guide you.

8. Understand and represent the reasons behind the architecture decisions of product/feature and consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgement to decisions.

A day in the life

You love working directly with software developers and business owners to understand their needs, propose solutions that enable developers to operate more quickly. You have a strong technical product management background and comfortable working with large, complex data sets/APIs and has the ability to cultivate relationships and earn trust with internal Amazon teams. You have the desire to understand the business scenarios our platform supports and have the aptitude to innovate for the customer and think big. You will engage and drive technical dependencies across teams to closure and ensure successful delivery.

About the team

Our team is the Inventory Authority Platform (IAP) team. We solve interesting, real-world challenges across the supply chain. We are responsible for development of systems that provide Sellers and Vendors visibility as inventory moves through the Amazon fulfillment network and reaches end customers. Our platform is pivotal to supporting Amazon's consumer business expansion, while increasing free cash flow by reducing fulfillment Cost to Serve.

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 $161,900/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.

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