Principal Product Manager - Technical, Last Mile Execution Planning

Are you ready to revolutionize last mile delivery at unprecedented scale? We're seeking an exceptional Principal Product Manager Technical to drive the expansion of execution planning systems that impact billions of packages, hundreds of delivery stations, and millions of customers across the globe.

In this role, you'll lead transformative initiatives across Amazon's last mile delivery network, spanning from traditional core delivery to emerging business models like Rush (under an hour), quick commerce, groceries, and pharmacy. You'll drive the reengineering of complex distributed systems, simplify architectures, and introduce AI-driven solutions that optimize routing, containerization, and dispatch at Amazon scale. Your work will directly influence technology decisions across the entire delivery network, balancing cost efficiency, station throughput, driver satisfaction, and customer experience while enabling capabilities like same-day and sub-same-day deliveries.

Key job responsibilities
- Define strategically impacting products for or Last Mile organization, influencing one of the widest distributed logistic systems in the world.
- Lead strategically significant, multi-year product delivery across VP-level organizations, managing complex cross-functional initiatives that span architectural and algorithmic challenges in last mile planning and execution
- Drive simplification and efficiency improvements across distributed software systems handling 3.5+ billion packages annually, identifying and remediating critical and endemic problems at massive scale across 280+ delivery stations and 13+ countries
- Own the technical roadmap and influence business strategy for execution planning systems, partnering with engineering teams to design scalable solutions for routing optimization, containerization, and dispatch that balance competing concerns including cost, throughput, safety, and customer experience
- Define business and technical requirements, clarify ambiguities, and manage delivery timelines for high-visibility initiatives, making data-driven trade-offs to optimize return-on-investment while ensuring solutions remain generalizable and resilient to varying operational conditions


A day in the life
You define, champion and drive multi-year technical products that are tightly coupled to quarterly and yearly goals at Amazon scale. Your days involve to evangelize and shepherd collaborative across VP organizations, drive efforts across a distributed and heterogeneous software stack, working with engineering leaders and product managers to deliver your product vision. You clarify and simplify to solve complex optimization problems, write strategic narratives for senior leadership, and proactively identify opportunities to improve your product and eliminate technical complexity. You help disambiguate trade-offs between competing priorities while ensuring delivery partners have a safe, compliant, and satisfying experience.

About the team
Execution Planning (EP) is responsible for planning routes executed by Amazon delivery partners across our expanding package delivery and pickup services, including Amazon Logistics, AMXL (heavy/bulky), Amazon Shipping, and Sub-same-day. The team tackles architectural and algorithmic challenges that enable critical capabilities for Amazon, from same-day deliveries to continuous package flow within delivery stations and robotic in-station package handling.

EP use science algorithms that ensure feasible plans are available from the moment packages are known until they're delivered. The team solves complex optimization problems including routing, containerization, and dispatch while balancing cost, station throughput, associate safety, on-road efficiency, driver satisfaction, and customer experience. Because the business changes rapidly, the team focuses on creating generalizable and resilient solutions that adapt to varying operational conditions across a growing set of delivery options and geographies.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience technical product management

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually