Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon - Amazon : Job Details

Description

We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new automotive discovery and shopping products that connect customers with their vehicle of choice. We're looking for a talented Senior Technical Program Manager to join our team of product managers, designers, and engineers to conceive, design, and develop innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers.

Key job responsibilities

The right candidate will possess strong technical skills and have demonstrated experience in leading teams who own medium to large distributed services. You must be able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You must be able to communicate up, down, and out to both technical and business audiences. You must be able to successfully drive, architect and scale services based on the program vision, anticipate bottlenecks, and balance business needs against technical constraints. You must take complex challenges and break them down into manageable projects, then work with technologists to prototype and engineering to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. You must be able to de-risk situations by taking a pragmatic approach and be willing to take calculated bets.

This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and verbal) with senior management on status, risks and strategy. Qualified candidates must have experience collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features; as well as analyze the cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization. In this role you would be interfacing with your immediate multi-discipline team, building relationships with partners across Amazon (ex. Advertising, Consumer, AWS, Alexa and Devices) and communicate across diverse areas of the org (e.g., legal, regulatory, finance, PR). You will be leveraging a variety of technologies, own your projects end-to-end and help build and refine exciting new automotive experiences for Amazon.

A day in the life

As a Sr. Technical Program Manager on this team, you will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple programs across this new automotive shopping initiative. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, documentation and measurement) of software teams that are delivering for the programs you manage. You will work alongside Creatives, Designers, Program Managers, Product Managers, and engineers. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

About the team

This role is on a newly formed team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | New York, NY, USA

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience

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

- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design

- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.