Santa Clara, CA, US
106 days ago
Principal TPM, Alexa Shopping, Alexa Shopping
With Alexa becoming increasingly common in homes, offices, cars and on the go, Alexa is playing a significant role in helping our customers capture their needs in the moment. In the Alexa Shopping team, we are working passionately to enable this vision by becoming the preferred way to capture and manage customer's shopping needs. By combining the ease of talking to Alexa with social shopping through sophisticated AI, we are transforming how customers shop in stores and online. We will intelligently help customers anticipate and keep track of what they need, save them time, and experience the best value during shopping. We will ensure they always get everything they needed without forgetting anything.

Key job responsibilities
Principal TPM need to not only excel in operating at a strategic level but also need to understand when to dive deep to keep the project on track. Specifically, Principal TPM must set the bar on the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines. Along with that, Principal TPMs need to clearly and concisely communicate, both verbally and in writing, with senior management on status, risks and required mitigations to maintain project commitments. Principal TPMs are expected to support the team in making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams. This role is a good fit for someone creative, who has strong customer focus and product sense, combined with an established track record in consumer technology products, connected devices, and a real passion for improving Shopping experiences

A day in the life
This role will test your skills across the board, including
- Massive cross-group coordination
- Ability to deeply understand platform level technologies
- Hard-core data analysis and reporting
- Influence technical architecture/design decisions, advocate for awesome user experiences, put in place useful processes, rip out useless processes, get in the code when necessary, and always be inventing a better way to do things
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