Product Manager, Workforce Staffing (WFS)
DESCRIPTION:
Come help us create innovative products for Amazon's Associates, managers, and leaders to support the evolution of the Workforce Staffing (WFS) organization.
In this role you will serve as a senior member of our product management team and own the strategy, roadmap and positioning of existing HR products, while also helping us to invent new innovative products. You will work closely with leaders to understand their pain points to inform your roadmap or develop new products.
You will deliver solutions that improve the employee experience and provide leaders insights to make better informed business decisions for WFS. You will effectively communicate, manage trade-offs, proactively approach problem solving, justify prioritization, and influence stakeholders. You will lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering, data science, UX, business intelligence and other partner teams in an agile development environment to create voice of employee experiences that are meaningful to employees.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and business judgement, and solid communication and project management skills. You should have keen desire to take on new and ambiguous projects and deliver business values to our customers on time. You are a champion for your product and can clearly articulate its value and potential. You have a thirst for continuous learning, commitment to action, an attitude that anything is possible, ability to execute cross functional projects and a relentless focus on the customer. You have strong problem-solving skills, deep product management experience, understand HR systems and voice of employee mechanisms. You have excellent communication skills and are a data-driven decision maker.
Key job responsibilities
• Work backwards from the frontline (employees, Site Leadership including managers and HR) to ensure the product is meeting the greatest need, rigorously prioritizing on their behalf.
• Work with the leadership team to set strategy, define the product, and make appropriate high-judgment trade-offs between features and speed-to-launch.
• Drive the key strategy for the product, looking across a multi-year roadmap.
• Work with global stakeholders across HR and the business.
• Partner with Tech, Analytics and User Experience teams to deliver the product.
• Drive usage of the HR product to positively impact the employee experience.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Work with Central Science teams to determine impact on retention to Employees.
A day in the life
As a Senior Product Manager a typical day will range from building out the long-term strategy of the products you lead, to collaborating with tech and Analytics teams to iterate on improving the latest features to working with frontline users to learn more and innovate on their behalf, and meeting with VPs, Directors and leaders across amazon to provide visibility into your space!
About the team
Are you a dynamic individual, passionate about improving employee experience? Do you like the idea of impacting a worldwide workforce to turn Amazon into Earth's best employer? If so, Amazon's Workforce Staffing team could be a perfect fit for you! Amazon has one of the largest and most complex workforces and this team is responsible for the management of the hourly associate talent supply chain.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Chicago, IL, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience as a product manager or owner
- Experience owning technology products
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights- Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
