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Amazon Sr. Product Manager - Tech , AFX - Sales Planning Tools in Seattle, Washington
Description
Do you want to be part of an innovative and rapidly growing business? Are you looking for end-to-end ownership of a high impact AI/ML enterprise application? Do you want to collaborate with and influence stakeholders across the globe?
Then you should join the AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) Sales Planning Tools team. We provide the services, technology, and data to support the rapidly growing, world-wide AWS Sales organization. This includes building and launching inventive products to scale the business, which will be critical for AWS to continue its incredible growth.
Our team is seeking a talented, innovative Sr. Product Manager - Technical with a think big mindset, exceptional dive deep and problem solving abilities, strong communication and influencing skills, and the ability to translate business needs into inventive software solutions.
Our team manages a portfolio of complex, high-impact, and intelligent planning tools, with an exciting multi-year product roadmap. These are global, enterprise grade web applications that are early and mid-stage in their lifecycle, and include both 1P and 3P products. You will own the end to end development of one of these products which stands to deliver transformational value across the worldwide AWS Sales organization. You will lead product vision and strategy, roadmap development, stakeholder and customer engagement, product requirements management, leadership reviews, user testing, and launch strategy and execution. You will work with a fully funded and growing engineering team, UX designers, data scientists global sales customers, and other application owners across the SMGS organization.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop product strategy and product definition.
• Define and manage multi-year product roadmap, including introduction of AI/ML to transform AWS planning.
• Capture, document, and communicate business and technical product requirements.
• Translate requirements into features and user stories. Drive technical team understanding of requirements.
• Manage technical build against business requirements. Provide thought leadership with engineering on architecture and implementation.
• Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders from Global AWS Sales and Sales Operations teams and other System and Application teams across WWRO.
• Lead document development for leadership reviews.
• Own project status updates to customers, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Plan and conduct user testing.
• Drive change management and adoption of solution across AWS Sales and Sales Operations
• Manage post-launch activities (user support, new feature development, etc.)
• Establish KPIs, identify gaps, and improve performance and adoption of the platform.
• Deep dive problems or opportunity areas and propose solutions to address.
A day in the life
• Design new products and capabilities that enable business users to operate more effectively, intelligently, and efficiently.
• Engage with systems that are at the cutting edge of technology, pioneering new methods and approaches to delivering software, serving customers, and enabling large, distributed, worldwide sales teams.
• Work closely with engineering and other technical product/program managers to define, build, drive and measure mechanisms to enable our field sales teams
• Leverage strong communication skills and a passion for using data and software to drive business decisions at scale
About the team
We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Beyond a strong technical background and proven track record of product management, a successful candidate will have experience driving strategy and influencing executive leadership. We are looking for someone that is a self-starter, someone that approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity, and a person that dives below the surface to identify the root cause and "so what" rather than just superficial trends.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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About Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
Experience with end to end product delivery
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree
Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
Comfort with ambiguity; demonstrated track record of independently developing creative solutions to problems
Demonstrated ability to successfully influence and drive stakeholders to decision without formal authority
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.