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In the Amazon Appstore team, we create and deliver ground-breaking app and subscription experiences that are great on their own, and magical when seamlessly working together.
Does the idea of being a key leader, inventing, and building the future of how customers are entertained and interact with Amazon devices sound exciting? Are you passionate about delivering products at global scale, creating simple solutions for complex problems, and inventing new ways to delight customers? As a Sr. Manager, you will help create and drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap for a team of senior product managers with a high degree of ownership over the customer experience. You will also help customers discover, buy and engage with apps, games, and services on Fire TV and Fire Tablets. This role is inherently cross-functional - you will work closely with engineering, user experience design, economists, hardware teams, operations, finance, and executive teams to envision, develop, and launch innovative products.

The ideal candidate will possess strong people management, exceptional product management and organizational skills, have a high-degree of customer obsession, along with ability to manage and execute against goals. A strong grasp of product development, analytics, and data driven decision making is crucial. The ability to communicate ideas with conviction, partnering with their engineering counterpart to influence/collaborate with their team, senior leaders, and colleagues in multiple partner teams around the world will be vital to this candidate’s success. The immediate team is co-located in Seattle WA and Irvine CA but Appstore also has key sites in India, Japan, and across Europe.
Responsibilities may include:
- Develop think big ideas and creating the business case to drive customer engagement, acquisition, and retention.
- Setting a vision, charter, roadmap for the team and delivering on products and features through their entire life cycle, from inception to post-launch support.
- Inspire the team, colleagues and leadership to help bring new initiatives and products to life.
- Being a passionate customer advocate by deeply understanding and articulating the customer needs through research, expertise, and prioritization.
- Lead and develop a team of experienced senior product managers.
- Preparing and delivering business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks.
- Write and review new business concepts, requirements documents, define use cases, features, and KPIs.
- Strategically creating a step-change in how customers interact with Amazon devices as part of their app or game experiences.