Amazon's Compensation Technology (ACT) organization is the foundation behind our global compensation products and experiences. The ACT team owns and operates Amazon’s compensation and offering applications for Global Talent Management and Compensation (GTMC) worldwide and across platforms. Our Compensation systems and programs are the heartbeat which supports every single Amazonian throughout their career - from those looking for their next adventure by transferring to a new team all the way through to the Annual talent and compensation cycle experiences. We have a passion for building products and programs which build solutions that empower our employees and enable us to adapt to meet their needs, building scalable and flexible solutions. Amazon Compensation technology is continually striving to provide an unparalleled customer experience for every Amazon employee.

We are seeking an experience Sr Manager, Product Manager -Technical (PMT) for the Compensation Tech organization who has a passion for building diverse and high performing product teams. You will raise the bar and lead the team, informing product strategy and vision and pressing into how 'things have always been done' in order to develop and drive customer-focused innovation.

As the Sr. Manager PMT you will directly own the new hire and internal transfers compensation product team, evolving and reinventing how customers engage with our compensation products. In this role, you will have end-to-end ownership of the business strategy and influence on the software development roadmap. You will be expected to create the long-term product vision and roadmap, influence partner teams towards your vision, and determine and build business metrics to help prioritize and drive execution towards the vision. You should be comfortable engaging with all types of customers and stakeholders, and effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audience. The technology we build is backbone of the compensation experience for Amazon's employees worldwide, so the products you own will have cross-team and organization-wide impact. To be successful, you will need to build and support a strong product team, leverage research and insights and guide your team through priorities and the complexity of a global compensation domain. The team will need to balance trade-offs, immediate needs and wins coupled with a strong and ambitious long term goals.

You will bring a think big mentality, evaluating current business and technical needs to define the work backwards vision and multi-year roadmap priorities in order to support the largest, smartest and most demanding customers on the planet. Your role will ask you to elevate the team to be better, bolder - setting a high bar to execute against the product visions while continuing to influence partner teams supporting Compensation goals.


Key job responsibilities
The ideal Sr. Manager, Product Manager -Technical for ACT, will:
-Build, lead and influence high-functional product management teams
- Lead and motivate cross-functional teams - engineering, design, research, science and other partner teams to deliver the right projects on time and drive wider organizational goals
- Have a strong ability to manage competing priorities and maintain the delivery of high quality customer service to employees and HR partners
- Be capable of facilitating the best decisions for employees and the company in an environment of ambiguity and rapid change
- Challenge commonly-held assumptions and reimagine the status-quo.
- Thrive on the day-to-day collaboration with engineers and other product managers, reaching across team boundaries to make the right things happen
- You work directly with key stakeholders in the business to understand customer problems, identify innovation opportunities, engage with engineers and collect customer feedback from studies, focus groups and testing.
- Make high-judgement decisions independently in ambiguous situations; and translate data into digestible business intelligence and actionable insights
- Have a strong ownership bias and an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done
- You define the vision, own the roadmap, and drive the team to execute on that vision.
- You lead “think-big” initiatives where the opportunity is yet to be defined. You are comfortable with ambiguity and bring clarity to complexity.


A day in the life
While each day may differ a bit, you will always learn something new, innovate and delight our customers, and grow. You will be their primary advocate and define the best possible experience for them, while also adding business value. This could mean defining a product vision, writing PRFAQ documents, partnering with engineers to determine the best way to deliver value to customers, or identifying ways to delight our customers by addressing customer feedback.