Description
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, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
Want to help shape how connected devices get to market faster? In this role you will drive connectivity and networking software solutions into our products and lead cross functional initiatives to extend the technologies and tools available.
The Role:
As a Technical Program Manager - Connectivity, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design, manage, and deliver innovative consumer products, technologies, and tools. In this role, you will:
Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
Lead cross functional development on new technology from design through delivery
Work with remote teams to deliver supporting software and services in sync with launch timelines and communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and change control
Work with subject matter experts to lead and drive new technology initiatives and evaluations for next generation Amazon products and features
Work with component leads to drive evaluation and adoption of new vendor technologies and HW
Work with vendors and external partners to deliver device software and firmware technologies into our products
Develop and champion processes for efficiency and scale in the Connectivity engineering organization
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Beijing, 11, CHN | Shenzhen, 44, CHN
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
3+ years of software development experience
5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience on connectivity back ground like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Experience on consumer device development and ODM/CM management
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Master’s or advanced technical degree
Experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule and deploy new feature sets
Experience in technical program/project management in consumer electronics and for SDK extensibility to developers and 3rd parties
Experience in hardware/software product development
Experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection
Demonstrable experience in project management and coordinating/driving release schedules, including cross-functional dependency management
Creative leader with superior analytical abilities
Knowledge of connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE or ZigBee, and wireless coexistence (CoEx)
Knowledge of networking and protocol technologies such as HTTP, MQTT
Experience in RF characterization and integrity
Knowledge of hardware development process and lifecycle
Excellent technical, problem-solving and communication skills both written and verbal
Cross-team coordination and executive presentation skills supported by written documentation