Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking a Product Manager to join the Devices Inventory Optimization team. This is an exciting and challenging role, and will give the right person a chance to be part of a company and a team making history. This position plays an important role for our organization in identifying opportunities for improvement and furthering operational excellence. This leader will drive a set of strategic projects across stakeholders spanning multiple organizations within the Devices org. This Product Manager will lead the charge and partner with teams across Amazon to plan, coordinate, and implement critical projects.
Successful candidates will have deep experience across three disciplines – Product Management, Strategy, and Technology – and will be well versed in all three in order to bridge across our diverse group of stakeholders. The candidate needs to be able to easily understand the business lines they engage and drive complex projects with a high-level of ambiguity. They also need to be able to support communications in these areas with current process owners, project stakeholders, and executive level sponsors.
Successful candidates will have excellent project management skills and the ability to create structure around ambiguity. As such, the candidate will often be required to dive deep to remove roadblocks and carefully manage scope to deliver results while still earning trust across many functions and stakeholders with executive level visibility and sponsorship.
Key job responsibilities
· Managing large initiatives through project initiation, planning, execution, and close-out
· Creating and maintaining project materials used by a cross-functional core team.
· Building project plans and identifying dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process.
· Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate.
· Taking the lead role with stakeholders to define, align on, and refine program objectives, deliverables, and resources
· Obtaining and driving clarity into requirements coming from one or more impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.
· Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner.
· Diving deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project execution, testing, launch and cutover.
· Leading cross functional teams through workstream retrospectives to help drive improvements into team processes; owning and driving process improvements.
· Communicating the overall program roadmap and periodic status updates to executive stakeholder body including
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of team management experience
- 7+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Job Tags
Full time,