2026 Amazon Leadership Accelerator (ALA) Product Manager
Building Tomorrow's Innovations Today
What if you could sit at the table where AWS was first suggested? Or be in the room when Amazon Prime was just an ambitious idea? At Amazon, most of our innovations started with leaders who dared to think differently. Through the Amazon Leadership Accelerator (ALA), you could be next.
ALA is our selective MBA leadership development program designed to cultivate the next of transformative product leaders. The program provides a multi-year pathway for ambitious MBA graduates to work on high-impact initiatives, receive mentorship from senior executives, and accelerate their journey toward becoming future senior leaders and CEOs at Amazon and elsewhere. ALA participants work directly with senior executives to identify customer needs and scale innovative solutions into transformative businesses. This multi-year pathway combines deep product management fundamentals with technical aptitude - the same combination that built game-changing products like AWS, Alexa, Prime, and Kindle.
This isn't a typical MBA role – it's an opportunity to shape the future of how millions of customers live, work, and play. As a Product Manager in the ALA program, you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior leaders who've built billion-dollar businesses, tackling challenges that stretch beyond your comfort zone while receiving the mentorship to help you succeed.
You'll lead working backwards sessions, write and refine PRFAQs, dive deep into metrics, and make data-driven decisions about future priorities. Regular touch-points with your leadership team will help shape your strategic thinking, while collaboration with architects and engineers will strengthen your technical judgment.
Key job responsibilities
Whether you're conducting customer research, developing business cases, or presenting to senior leadership, each day offers opportunities to impact our customers. Throughout your journey, you'll be supported by a community of peers and mentors who share your passion for building what's next.
Customer & Business Impact
• Identify and analyze customer pain points and unmet needs
• Define clear success metrics for your project
• Conduct market analysis and customer research
• Build compelling business cases showing value creation
Product Development
• Own a significant product initiative from ideation to prototype
• Create working backwards documentation (PR/FAQ)
• Design and validate prototype solutions with customers
• Define business requirements and implementation roadmap
• Make data-driven decisions about feature design
Strategic Thinking & Innovation
• Develop product strategy based on market analysis
• Explore innovative solutions to customer problems
• Create competitive positioning recommendations
• Contribute to go-to-market planning
Technical & Stakeholder Collaboration
• Work across functions to drive project execution
• Present recommendations to senior leadership
• Build understanding of technical architecture and constraints
Your 12-week will focus on delivering meaningful impact through a project with clear customer benefits and business outcomes, while providing exposure to core product management responsibilities.
A day in the life
Your day might begin with analyzing customer feedback and usage data, collaborating with senior leaders to identify unmet needs that could become Amazon's next breakthrough product. You'll regularly engage with stakeholders across functions to drive your product vision forward, while spending significant time with engineering teams to define technical requirements and ensure scalable solutions.
About the team
What if you could sit at the table where AWS was first suggested? Or be in the room when Amazon Prime was just an ambitious idea? At Amazon, most of our innovations started with leaders who dared to think differently. Through the Amazon Leadership Accelerator (ALA), you could be next.