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Amazon Product Manager, Prototype and Customer Engineering in London, United Kingdom
Description
The Public Sector Prototype and Customer Engineering (PS PACE) team helps customers solve their most interesting business challenges by rapidly developing innovative prototypes using world-class cloud and open-source technologies. We’ve helped public sector customers by using image recognition to find missing persons, Artificial Intelligence to support disaster response, and Generative AI to create educational content.
We are a team of problem-solvers and builders who work on our customer’s challenges that don’t have cookie-cutter solutions. We often don’t have the answers right away, and are expected to Dive Deep to figure out the best approach. The code we write provides immediate value for customers by showing how technology can solve their problems.
Key job responsibilities
As a Product Manager, you will:
Lead workshops with customers to understand their key business challenges.
Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution.
Use Amazon’s Working Backwards product development process to define requirements.
Develop user stories, lead sprint planning, and other agile disciplines to help your team iterate and deliver great software.
Use your strong innovative skills to design exciting features to solve our customers challenges.
Help your team invent new approaches and then simplify them to solve really hard business and technical challenges.
Learn from some of the brightest minds in the business, they would love to also learn from you.
Build valuable expertise in AWS services used in Machine Learning, IoT, image recognition, chat bots, and Big Data.
Take advantage of really strong Amazon internal training opportunities including instructor led courses, expert talks from experts, and informal on the job training.
About the team
You will be part of an exceptional team of product managers and engineers where collaboration is highly valued, where innovation is something that happens every day, where taking risks is encouraged and where every day is Day One. You will face unique challenges, learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry and lead the development of exciting applications that target challenging customer problems. You will have the opportunity to be part of one of the fastest growing, customer obsessed, and innovative companies in the world.
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Basic Qualifications
3+ years of technical product or program management experience
5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
2+ years of software development experience
3+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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