Amazon.com Services LLC Looking For Senior Product Development Technical Program Manager, Amazon Consumer Robotics group at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time

7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams

Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

5+ years of technical program management experience

Job summary

Excited about robotics, and how they will be used in our every day lives? The Amazon Consumer Robotics group is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, making the future closer than ever.

Astro is Amazon’s first household robot to use AI and Intelligent Motion to gracefully and intuitively interact with people and spaces. It is a different kind of robot, one that’s designed to help customers with a range of tasks like home monitoring and keeping in touch with family. It brings together new advancements in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor technology, voice and edge computing in a package that’s designed to be helpful and convenient.

The Senior Product Design Technical Program Manager (PD Engineering Program Manager) will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, test and delivery. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. Working within the Product Design team, the PD Engineering Program Manager will be responsible for coordinating execution of the Lab126 Product Development Process, across multiple programs, for the device enclosure and package design developments of consumer electronics products. The PD Engineering Program Manager will work with the PD teams, HW Program Managers, and Operations to ensure necessary process steps are planned and executed, and provide for smooth, reliable progress of programs against target schedules. In addition, you will provide support and coordination within the Process Engineering team to facilitate distribution and tracking of materials under test, returns failure assessment and response, and documentation of “lessons learned” during project developments. In this role, you will:

• Drive the team to meet PDP (Product Development Process) requirements
• Develop, maintain, and manage task-based PD schedule
• Provide risk management and schedule optimization analysis
• Serve as the PD communication focal point with the Lab126 Core team, Overseas Partners and OEMs
• Drive and track mechanical parts material readiness for Engineering builds
• Manage BOM development and readiness
• Support through coordination of resources across Process Engineering Team initiatives

About the team

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

• Master’s degree in relevant discipline
• Background in high-volume consumer electronics
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Hands on experience with development using outside supplier teams
• 5+ years of experience delivering consumer electronics products
• This position will require some international travel

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