# Amita Pawar

> Senior Product Manager – Amazon Devices | Kindle Product Lead (Entry Device) | Consumer Hardware | Product Strategy | Device Platforms

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amitapawar

Product leader with 10+ years building and launching consumer hardware devices at global scale. Currently lead the entry Kindle device at Amazon Devices, one of the best-selling Kindle products. Experience spans product strategy, hardware roadmaps, and launching multimillion-unit devices across Kindle and Echo families. Passionate about building great device experiences at the intersection of hardware, software, and customer insights.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Manager, Kindle @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Product Manager for Kindle E-Reader devices

### Senior Product Manager (Technical) @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2021 – Present
-Driving conceptualization and development of companion products and accessories for Amazon devices
-Owned the roadmap and strategy for in box power accessories for all Amazon devices

### Product Design Manager @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Managed a team of mechanical product design engineers & led the development of 5th generation Echo Dot and Echo Dot with Clock

### Senior Product Design Engineer (Technical Lead) @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, CA
-Product Design Lead for multiple products, such as Echo Look, Echo Show 2nd gen, Echo buds and the all new spherical Echo Dot.
- Responsible for developing product architecture starting from industrial design concept to mass manufactured consumer products

### Startup Advisor @ Viva Chefs
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Design and Development Engineer @ Lutron Electronics
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Coopersburg, Pennsylvania
- Responsible for developing the mechanical architecture of new products, from concept phase to product launch and high volume production
- Successfully launched two new products and ramped up to full volume production
- Collaborated with electrical engineers, manufacturing engineers & other mechanical engineers
- Developed prototypes of different designs to test and finalize the product aesthetic 
- Developed and implemented test plans to qualify new electromechanical parts for the product
- Conducted detailed worst case and statistical tolerance analysis of assemblies and stress analysis of parts using ANSYS
- Worked with overseas suppliers to approve molds for plastic parts, qualifying electromechanical parts, qualifying dies for stamped sheet metal parts
- Lead new product mechanical testing for design qualification and adherence to industry standards like UL498 and UL746
- Participated in recruiting new engineers

### Graduate Research Associate @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Smart Materials and Structures Lab                         
-Conducted literature survey on active materials (shape memory alloys, piezoelectric actuators and electroactive polymers) as potential candidates as actuation technology for reconfigurable tactile surfaces.
 -Built and characterized different designs of shape memory alloy actuators, such as conical shape memory alloy springs, to create an active tactile surface
- Designed & conducted experiments to gather force displacement data of shape memory alloy springs
- Modeled shape memory alloy conical springs in Matlab to validate experimental results
Course Projects
-Developed a 2D finite element code in Matlab; 
- Demonstrated the effect of relief holes and relief notches on stress concentration using finite element analysis in ANSYS.

### Mechanical Engineer II @ Schlumberger
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
•	Completed concurrent design projects on ‘Formation Isolation Valves (FIVs)’ with the design teams in Schlumberger Reservoir Completions Technology Center, Houston, USA, which involved design, analysis and development of large FIV parts and assemblies.
•	Performed finite element analysis (Pro/MECHANICA) on parts to identify stress concentration areas and improved designs based on the results.
•	Performed tolerance stack-up analysis using Mathcad on large tool assemblies.
•	Lead and participated in technical design reviews of rapid response projects.
•	Implemented technical and drawing standards (ASME Y14.41) as a member of the ‘Standards’ team at the center, made standards to be followed while making large Pro/ENGINEER assemblies and drawings.

### Mechanical Engineer I @ Schlumberger
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
•	Rationalized ‘Completions Accessories’ using tolerance stack-up analysis and pressure calculations.
•	Converted and updated old manual drawings in ‘Down-hole Testing Segment’ to Pro/ENGINEER format and up to current technical standards and maintained the database of part and assembly drawings.

### Intern @ Tata Motors
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
Gear Factory                                                         
Project - Design and fabrication of a vertical axis face-grinding machine                                 
•	Designed the main spindles and mechanisms like feed compensation, for a face grinding machine and fabricated parts from a scrapped vertical super-finishing machine.
•	Conducted ‘Kaizen’ activity in the gear factory to reduce the through-put time.

College of Engineering, Pune                                                          
   · Seminar on rapid prototyping techniques.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University

### Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering Pune


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amitapawar

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Last updated: 2026-04-13