Main Responsibilities of a Senior Product Manager at Amazon
Hema, a Senior Product Manager at Amazon, describes a key internship responsibility as drafting a "prfaq document for a new feature," requiring collaboration with diverse teams ("marketing to customers research to data analysis to product team and engineering team") to assess product feasibility and build a compelling business case. This experience highlights the cross-functional collaboration and strategic thinking central to their product management career.
Project Management, Teamwork, Communication, Data Analysis, Problem-Solving
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Hema Chalamalasetty
Senior Product Manager
Amazon
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
UCLA Anderson, MBA
Engineering - Chemical
Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
International Student, Immigrant, Worked 20+ Hours in School, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Collaborating with diverse teams (marketing, customer research, data analysis, engineering) to assess product feasibility.
2. Developing proposals to justify product development based on monetary and customer-centric factors.
3. Presenting proposals to team members to gain buy-in for new product features.
Transcript
What are your main responsibilities within your current role?
As the senior product manager intern at Amazon, I had the responsibility of drafting a PRFAQ document for a new feature in payments or GoG Amazon. I had to work with different teams, from marketing to customer research, data analysis, product, and engineering.
My goal was to understand the feasibility of the product and come up with a proposal. I needed to explain why it was a good idea to build the product, covering monetary and other customer-centric aspects. Then, I had to present that document to everyone on the team by the end of my internship.