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Sr. Product Manager -Technical, Translation Services

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    16 days ago

    Job Description

    Are you passionate about languages and translation? Are you motivated to have a direct impact on customers around the world? Do you have a tech background and love finding creative solutions to challenging problems? Amazon"s Translation Services team is responsible for building the tools and features that support the localization and translation needs of all Amazon businesses. We partner with content owners to translate and deliver content for customers around the world, and we are obsessed with providing the right quality content in each language we support. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to create the vision, strategy, and roadmap that will continually improve and scale our services and deliver the best experience for our customers in their preferred language. If you are passionate about building equitable experiences for worldwide customers and are undaunted by large scope, let's talk.

    Key job responsibilities

    As a Senior Product Manager - Technical, you will own the strategy and execution of one of the product charters within the Translation Services space. You will partner with stakeholders across the business -- content owners, localization program managers, and translators -- to understand their biggest problems and opportunities, then build a backlog of features to address those problems. You will work closely with one or more software development and Science teams to define and build those features, then measure the features" ability to successfully meet your stakeholders" needs. You will own the following deliverables: documentation of your product"s vision; assessment of entitlement and ROI for your product roadmap; feature requirements and user stories; experimentation set-up and analysis; and release notes. You must be able to be deeply connected to the customer experience, product details, and success metrics, yet be able to zoom out to the 10,000-foot level to understand how your charter fits into the broader Translation Services ecosystem and Amazon as a whole.

    A day in the life

    There may not be a typical day. One day you may be leading a vision workshop or presenting to a VP, and the next day conducting a deep dive into a customer anecdote or collaborating with your software development and UX Design partners to build a feature. But what is consistent is always have your charter's goals and progress top of mind, driving clarity and stakeholder alignment, and looking around corners to anticipate problems that may affect individual or team outcomes.

    About the team

    The team consists of Product Managers, Program Managers, and Software Developers located in Seattle, Barcelona, and Hyderabad. The central team builds end-to-end translation technology, optimizing the quality and cost of translations across all of Amazon"s content. We build state of the art translation technology: traditional and LLM-based machine translation, computer-aided translation, translation memories and term bases, LLM-based QA, dynamic workflow/routing decisions, etc.) to streamline productivity and ensure consistent quality.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Autoscalingunmatched
    • Computer-Aided Translationunmatched
    • Content Delivery/Distributionunmatched
    • Customer Experienceunmatched
    • Ecosystemsunmatched
    • Leading Edge Technologyunmatched
    • Localizationunmatched
    • Machine Translationunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Documentationunmatched
    • Product Managementunmatched
    • Product Planningunmatched
    • Product Programsunmatched
    • Project Management Softwareunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Release Notesunmatched
    • Return on Investment (ROI)unmatched
    • Software Designunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Translation Servicesunmatched
    • User Experience Design (UXD)unmatched

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