Principal Product Manager - Technical, Autos AI , Amazon Autos

Amazon is hiring a Principal Product Manager - Technical, Autos AI , Amazon Autos in Seattle, United States. It pays $198k-$268k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Level rates this AI product manager role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Pay on this posting starts 11% higher than the typical AI product manager posting on Level.
The posting mentions Alexa, AI agents and AI product among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
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Lead the AI product strategy and ship AI-native surfaces and shopping assistant agents for Amazon Autos.

Alexa

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Amazon Autos is building the end-to-end vehicle buying experience on Amazon. We launched in the consumer-experience era; we are now redesigning for the AI era, and every surface (shopping, advertising, dealer intelligence, attribution, in-store) has to be rethought for what AI now makes possible. This role owns the AI product strategy and the new AI-native surfaces for Amazon Autos, in an area where the problem, the opportunity, and the strategy are not yet defined. You set a 3-5 year vision, prove the highest-impact wedges with working prototypes, and drive Ads, Discovery, Data and Science, and Dealer Experience teams to adopt AI-native patterns at scale. Your impact comes from influence without authority across many organizations, carried by narratives that earn decisions in rooms up to the SVP level.

Key job responsibilities
Own the Autos AI strategy and its 3-5 year vision. Author decision narratives that set organizational direction and go to Directors, VPs, and SVPs. Drive the AI parts of planning. Own the product strategy for AI discovery and agentic shopping: Alexa Shopping Assistant and agent experiences that reshape how customers find and buy vehicles. Ship working AI prototypes that move from concept to artifact in weeks, using the prototype as the specification. Drive Discovery, Ads, Data and Science, and Dealer Experience teams to adopt AI-native patterns, and build alignment across organizations that hold different priorities. Establish frameworks the org uses to decide build, integrate, or wait on AI investments. Model the AI-augmented way of working for the PM community; mentor and coach, and contribute to Principal PM assessments.

A day in the life
You start reviewing the last prototype's telemetry: retrieval quality on a hard shopping query, model latency, dealer signal in the response. You walk into a Director review with a working AI agent, not a slide deck; the demo settles the debate. You spend an afternoon in a whiteboard session with a principal engineer, pushing on architecture trade-offs. You end the day writing a two-pager naming the AI wedge for the next quarter and land it in your manager's inbox. You publish a working prototype to a small dealer cohort, and watch what customers actually do.

About the team
Amazon Autos is building the end-to-end vehicle buying experience on Amazon, from research and discovery through purchase, financing, and delivery. Our team combines product, engineering, science, and dealer partnerships to make Amazon the best place to find and buy a car. We move fast, prototype constantly, and treat AI as a first-class capability across every surface. The team uses AI to build AI: prototype-as-spec, AI-accelerated delivery. Small team, very large surface area, real autonomy, and a clear opportunity for growth.

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
- Gen AI Fluency

Preferred qualifications

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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, NY, New York - 197,900.00 - 267,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Principal Product Manager - Technical, Autos AI , Amazon Autos at Amazon rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Principal Product Manager - Technical, Autos AI , Amazon Autos is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $198k-$268k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on July 22, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Pay

This job starts at: $198k
Typical AI product manager job: $179k

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