Amazon Principal Hardware Operations Lead - Product Development 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

94740548

• Work with key stakeholders within the Device Hardware team and other partner organizations to lead our twice-yearly operational planning and quarterly guidance for headcount and budgets and co-authors applicable documents in close collaboration with Device Hardware leaders
• Lead headcount planning at the program, product line, and total business level; consolidates Device Hardware point-of-view with GMs/PLs and partners with Finance for resource allocation as it pertains to roadmap and NTIs
• Owns goal planning and review mechanisms for goals across the org
• Drives org-wide initiatives to improve operational efficiencies and define metrics to measure business and org health; use your knowledge and experience with the consumer electronics product development life-cycle to drive creative solutions to improve these KPIs over time.
• Work with Device Hardware leaders in developing mechanisms that drive innovation across the org
• Act as primary liaison between Finance and the Device Hardware business, partnering with Talent Acquisition and HR as needed to develop resourcing strategies and solutions.

- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelor's degree (Engineering degree preferred)
- 10+ years of experience working on hardware-centric consumer products
- Experience analyzing and proposing data-driven solutions

- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Strong attention to detail and willingness to roll up sleeves
- Experience communicating with and presenting to senior leadership
- Demonstrated examples of leadership and ability to influence
- Ability to manage multiple, changing priorities
- Ability to translate large, complex data sets into actionable, understandable summaries
- Understanding of a hardware product development process
- Demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems. In particular, identifying customer and organizational needs and inventing new and efficient ways to meet those needs
- Experience doing operational planning and headcount management.
- Experience managing employees
- Experience with Excel