Job Description
DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager- Technical to build and drive our Print on Demand International Expansion strategy, allowing authors and publishers to reach more readers in new marketplaces. As a Principal Product Manager – Tech, you'll be an individual contributor who works backwards from our customers and owns the long-term strategy and product vision for when and where we expand next, as well as executing on the plan you set.
You’ll be responsible for leading global, cross-functional teams to deliver on your product roadmap looking around corners, mitigating risks, and effectively escalating to unblock delivery. You’ll drive trade-off decisions between customer benefit and complexity and use data and anecdotes to craft crisp, compelling, and well-reasoned documents to drive strategic alignment with senior leaders and communicate measurable results. You’ll create and use mechanisms to progress your roadmap, including updates to senior leaders, partners, and stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have excellent product, problem solving and communication skills and be able to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, by deeply understanding customer needs, and then aligning teams towards coherent technology and business strategies. The candidate will be at ease dealing with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, be motivated by a fast-paced environment, and be comfortable thinking big and diving deep. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives while staying on top of tactical execution, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done.
If you sound like this person, we can't wait to meet you!
About the team
Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company. With Print On Demand (PoD), we envision a world where customers can buy any book in any language and, where publishers and authors can distribute their titles without having to hold physical inventory, where every book is always “in-stock” and customer orders are manufactured in real-time and delivered on-time, helping the environment by only printing books readers want.
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
- 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and effectively influence across cross-functional teams
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
Job Tags
Full time,