Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon

DescriptionAmazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.Detail Page Experience and Marketplace (DPMI) team, within Sponsored Products (SP), is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead several strategic projects for innovations in DP shopper experience and monetization strategy across multiple organizations (Ads, BuyX, P13N, APB, and others). The candidate will apply both business and technical acumen in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and innovative environment, partnering with product, science and engineering teams distributed in multiple organizations. You thrive through building consensus and driving teams towards results, anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management, anticipating and making tradeoffs, and balancing business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop mechanism to drive its delivery in a successful and timely manner is key. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.Key job responsibilities

Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects

Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps, dependency identifications, and resourcing plans

Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and help engineering efforts meet aggressive timelines

Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on short and long term plans, program updates, and critical issues

Refine existing and build new mechanism to optimize the output and collaboration within the team and with partners. e.g., experiment tracking, intake processes, metrics reporting

Drive the 2-3 year SP tech strategy aligning with the SP product strategy for Detail Page collaborating with the PMT leaders

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of technical product or program management experience

10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

5+ years of software development experience

Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

Experience managing projects across multiple engineering teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating go-to-market releases.

Prior experience working on scalable web applications.

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

7+ years of technical product or program management experience

5+ years of software development experience

Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience

Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.