Principal Technical Program Manager, Alexa Core Experience

Alexa+ Product Manager

Alexa+ is our next-generation, AI-powered digital assistant. Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, intelligent, and personalized than previous versions - helping you get things done with ease. Whether it's entertainment, learning, organization, summarization, or open-ended conversation, Alexa+ can assist. Alexa+ can also manage and protect your smart home, make reservations, discover new content, and help you shop online.

We're looking for entrepreneurs who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history. Customers have now purchased over half a billion Alexa-enabled devices. Join us as we innovate at scale to shape the future of human-computer interaction on mobile and web!

Key job responsibilities:

• Operate a large scale program with science, engineering, product and design developing towards a customer bar that you will help to define and own
• Establish the right mechanisms to operate and inspect at scale
• Identify opportunities for simplification; invent methods to drive efficiencies in development.
• Interface with science and engineering leaders to help stitch together technologies into meaningful offerings for customers.
• Drive business and system-level reviews, align development teams toward coherent technology strategies and effective engineering processes
• Work with all levels of leadership to build consensus, and represent complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential solutions, verbally and in writing to SVPs to understand the decisions they need to make and the options they have
• Set organization priorities, system owners, business direction

A day in the life:

In this role you will be primary in coordinating and delivering cross-org releases, including both science and engineering innovations. You will keep the tempo and focus across dozens of development teams, by establishing robust mechanisms and driving clarity and throughput. You will ensure releases meet a high customer bar and that an end-to-end experience is delivered with cohesiveness.

About the team:

Our team is a unique change agent team that pairs a deep bench of seasoned product leaders with strong TPMs to deliver across the breadth of Alexa. We encourage a leader who is strong at building relationships and working horizontally. Ability to influence without direct authority critical. We are at the center of innovation and release and the tempo is fast, but exciting.