Advertising at Amazon is growing incredibly fast and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create unique advertising experiences for hundreds of thousands of advertisers and shoppers globally.
Our team's mandate is to launch and accelerate the Amazon Business (B2B) advertising business as it requires a differentiated customer and advertiser experience. We own the end-to-end advertising experience including placements, creative, ad serving, advertiser experience, and marketing.
As Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Amazon Business Advertising, you will help build a new Business-to-Business (B2B) advertising experience from the ground up and create and launch features for both advertisers and business shoppers globally. You will partner with engineers, product managers, other TPMs, and senior management to help create these world-class solutions. Due to business’ unique purchasing requirements across size, industry, and other attributes (e.g., the largest companies in the world, your favorite bakery, your local government, your college alma mater), you will develop a mix of bespoke and scalable experiences for B2B buyers that drive discovery based on their needs. You will also create simple and coherent experiences for B2B advertisers built on top of multiple unique full stack advertising products.
We're looking for a Principal TPM who is passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, thrives on solving tough problems, demonstrates a high degree of product ownership, and wants to have fun while they make history.
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Key job responsibilities
A Technical Program Manager (TPM) will partner with engineers, other TPMs, and senior management to help create world-class solutions. Part of your responsibilities will include:
- Manage cross-team and cross-organization delivery of long-term customer-facing programs.
- Manage business requirements, design, performance expectations and goals with all stakeholder teams.
- Partner with other leaders to define business and architectural strategy and build roadmaps for the programs you and your team own.
- Be responsible for the overall coordination, quality and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run.
- Manage prioritization and tradeoffs across engineering, customers, and time to market.
- Drive architecture, engineering and integration decisions and timelines with dependency teams.
- Establish business processes and policies as well as metrics and indicators for success.
- Develop, report, and continually improve business performance metrics.
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
- Translate customer’s business requirements into technical/functional specifications for the engineers
- Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
- Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment for sales and marketing
- Capture, share and leverage your best practice knowledge across a broad group of engineers throughout all subsidiaries
- Partner as a technical liaison between customers and engineering teams
About the team
The Amazon Business Ads Tech team owns the advertising experience on Amazon Business (https://business.amazon.com). Our team’s vision is to personalize the business-to-business ("B2B") shopper/decision maker's discovery process and enable them to make more informed policy and purchasing decisions to meet their organization’s complex sourcing needs. In parallel, we provide advertisers unique channels and capabilities to effectively engage and connect with B2B shoppers/decision makers.
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
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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.