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Amazon Senior Product Manager-Technical, Amazon Robotics in North Reading, Massachusetts
Description
Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We're revolutionizing global fulfillment by developing state-of-the-art robotics solutions for Amazon’s Fulfillment Network. Amazon is the world's largest handler of individual items, and our work combines computer vision, mobile robots, advanced end-of-arm tooling, and high-degree-of-freedom movement to solve real-world problems at massive scale. Our smart team of doers collaborates with customers across Amazon worldwide to conceive, develop, prototype, and deploy innovative robotic systems.
Amazon Robotics is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager - Technical (PM-T) to lead and support product management activities for our storage and sortation mobile robotic fleet systems. In this role, you will define and drive the strategic vision for advancing our mobile robotics fleet's capabilities across various existing solutions and new applications. This highly cross-functional position requires deep collaboration with our software development, applied science, and fleet foundation model teams. You will evaluate business needs, identify and prioritize fleet optimization opportunities, create comprehensive product and technology roadmaps, and develop detailed product requirements to optimize system throughput and space utilization. Collaborating closely with business teams, you'll translate operational needs into clear system goals and technical requirements for mobile robotic drive unit allocation, movement, and planning systems, and align roadmaps across solution design, software/science and hardware/firmware initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a deep systems thinker with strong analytical capabilities who thrives in matrix organizations. You should have either hands-on software development or applied science experience, strong systems engineering background, or significant product management experience in complex technical environments. You should be adept at synthesizing diverse business needs, technologies, and capabilities into product solutions that deliver transformative results. We're looking for someone who can understand massively parallelized non-linear systems and communicate complex concepts in a simple way to diverse business and technical stakeholders. This individual contributor role reports into Amazon Robotics' Product Management Excellence organization.
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Key job responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
Drive the development of the vision, strategy, business plan, and roadmap for Amazon's mobile robotic fleet
Be a passionate advocate for the customer; understand and articulate business and customer needs, leverage internal knowledge and expertise, and prioritize requirements
Author internal whitepapers and present to executive leadership to drive alignment on category strategy, multi-year roadmaps, product plans, and resource allocations
Technical Execution:
Evaluate and influence system architectural design and interface trade-off decisions across organizational boundaries to improve end-to-end system objectives
Collaborate with software developers, applied scientists, and engineers to understand technical feasibility and prioritization development and implementation of new concepts and features
Define use cases, write requirements documents, and own the business metrics and KPIs for your products
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Maternity and Parental Leave Options
Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
The Product Management Excellence (PME) team’s mission is to collaborate with Leadership and broadly across AR to establish our long-term vision and influence AR’s product and technology strategy to develop a portfolio that maximizes AR’s impact to Amazon. We aim to own the full product lifecycle by balancing three ongoing priorities: (1) continuously improving the world’s largest robotics product base, (2) delivering new solutions that maximize our customers’ business performance, and (3) inventing transformative products to solve our customers’ future needs.
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of technical product management experience in software environments, or equivalent technical background in software development, systems engineering, or applied science
Bachelor's degree
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition for a product category
Experience making sound decisions on product-technology feature, capability, and performance tradeoffs
Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions, architecture, and strategy related to a product
Proven track record managing complex stakeholder relationships
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies and architectures
Exceptional systems thinking capabilities
Preferred Qualifications
MBA and/or post-graduate engineering/science degree
Experience analyzing applications for robotics and automation systems and specifying SW, algorithm, and AI requirements, along with HW interfaces
Passion for driving customer experiences and diving deep into highly technical topics with engineers and scientists
Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills; demonstrated ability to influence others and manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Proven analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases
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