What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Product Manager - Technical, Amazon Robotics position at Amazon?
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 Centers. 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 Principal Product Manager - Technical (PM-T) to lead and support the Mobile Manipulation product portfolio. In this role you will define and drive the strategic vision for advancing our mobile manipulation technology - systems consisting of multi-degree-of-freedom robotic arms integrated with autonomous mobile drive systems. This role will focus on develop solutions targeting Amazon's most pressing operational needs while establishing a platform that can scale across opportunities in Amazon's Fulfillment Network. You will collaborate strategically across Amazon Robotics and partner organizations to understand customer needs and use cases, deliver comprehensive product strategy, author detailed product requirement documents, and develop multi-year category roadmaps.
The ideal candidate is a deep systems thinker with strong analytical capabilities who has shown an ability to influence strategy and product development across organizations. You should have hands-on experience with robotic systems, particularly in mobile robotics or manipulation, and 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 evaluate complex trade-offs between flexibility, utilization, and ROI across various automation approaches. The candidate must be able to communicate complex concepts in verbal, written, and visual mediums to diverse business, operations, and technical stakeholders. This role reports into Amazon Robotics' Product Management Excellence organization.
Join us. Work Hard. Have fun. Make history.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
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:
About The Team
The Product Management Excellence (PME) team’s mission is to collaborate with Leadership and teams across Amazon Robotics (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.
Learn more about the exciting work across Amazon Robotics here: https://broadcast.amazon.com/videos/1302520
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2943965
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 Centers. 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 Principal Product Manager - Technical (PM-T) to lead and support the Mobile Manipulation product portfolio. In this role you will define and drive the strategic vision for advancing our mobile manipulation technology - systems consisting of multi-degree-of-freedom robotic arms integrated with autonomous mobile drive systems. This role will focus on develop solutions targeting Amazon's most pressing operational needs while establishing a platform that can scale across opportunities in Amazon's Fulfillment Network. You will collaborate strategically across Amazon Robotics and partner organizations to understand customer needs and use cases, deliver comprehensive product strategy, author detailed product requirement documents, and develop multi-year category roadmaps.
The ideal candidate is a deep systems thinker with strong analytical capabilities who has shown an ability to influence strategy and product development across organizations. You should have hands-on experience with robotic systems, particularly in mobile robotics or manipulation, and 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 evaluate complex trade-offs between flexibility, utilization, and ROI across various automation approaches. The candidate must be able to communicate complex concepts in verbal, written, and visual mediums to diverse business, operations, and technical stakeholders. This role reports into Amazon Robotics' Product Management Excellence organization.
Join us. Work Hard. Have fun. Make history.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Lead and support the development of the vision, strategy, business plan, and roadmap for Amazon's mobile manipulation robots, and collaborate cross-functionally to bring that vision to life.
- 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.
- Evaluate and influence system architectural design and interface trade-off decisions across organizational boundaries to improve end-to-end system objectives.
- Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, and technical program managers to understand technical feasibility and prioritize development and implementation of new concepts and features.
- Define use cases, write requirements documents, and own the business metrics and KPIs for your products.
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
About The Team
The Product Management Excellence (PME) team’s mission is to collaborate with Leadership and teams across Amazon Robotics (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.
Learn more about the exciting work across Amazon Robotics here: https://broadcast.amazon.com/videos/1302520
Basic Qualifications
- 10 years of technical product or program management, product development, engineering, or technology experience (10 years PMT experience), or 15 years total experience if mixed with other technical roles.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or other technical field.
- 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 and strategy related to a product.
- Proven track record managing complex stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies and architectures.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills; demonstrated ability to influence others and manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
- MBA and/or post-graduate engineering/science degree.
- Experience developing and launching first-generation B2B/B2B2C products and services; comfortable with ambiguity and nascent markets.
- Familiarity or experience with robotic mobility and/or manipulation, computer vision, actuators, sensors, and/or machine learning/AI.
- Experience analyzing applications for robotics and automation systems and specifying hardware, software, AI, and customer experience requirements.
- Experience using rapid prototyping and other creative mechanisms to gather direct customer feedback throughout the product development process.
- Passion for driving customer experiences and diving deep into highly technical topics with engineers and scientists.
- Proven analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data to create complex financial models to justify investment opportunities.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2943965
