Do you have a passion for diving deep to build new products that will drive critical business decisions and operations at scale? Do you want to work on a global project of critical importance to the future of Amazon, real never-been-done-before stuff of complexity? If yes, the Amazon MODE (Media Operations, Data, and Execution) team is looking for somebody with your enthusiasm and skills to work as part of the team. We are looking for a technical program manager who is curious, driven, and passionate about marketing and media. This global role is cross-functional and will work closely with marketing, media planning, finance, engineering, legal, business development, and product management across teams within Marketing, Advertising, and Measurement. If you are looking for a role where you can work on ambiguous business problems and are passionate about innovating new products and features to drive media planning and campaign lifecycle, we want to meet you.

As Sr. TPM, you must have strong problem-solving skills and communication skills, and an ability to influence business and technical leaders in a dynamic environment. We are working on our next generation marketing and big data technology. Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to build software systems that directly impact the way we plan, buy and activate marketing campaigns at Amazon. The ideal candidate will have a track record of software development, critical thinking, problem solving skills, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable systems. The candidate should be open to new challenges and be data driven. The candidate should drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

You will play a key role in defining the long-term technical product vision supporting the functional areas of cross-channel media strategy and planning, buying, marketing operations, campaign reporting and measurement. You will work with business owners to gather requirements and distill it into clear working-backwards BRDs, use broad context from multiple businesses to guide a team of scientists/ engineers, and manage the program aspects including business reviews and working backward plans. The successful candidate will have strong organizational and influencing skills and uses data to guide their decision-making.


Key job responsibilities
• Responsible for the end-to-end project management functions of large programs
• Effectively cooperate with business stakeholders to define and deliver complex features
• Partner as a technical liaison between business stakeholders and internal product, science, and engineering teams
• Create high-level designs and architectural diagram for implementing highly complex technical solution.
• Develop the technical requirements (infrastructure and data needs) for the Media Planning solution by working with Product and business teams
• Collaborate with Science and Engineering teams to lead the development of internal products and tools
• Thrive in ambiguity, define and plan programs in a fast-paced organization, and secure buy in from internal and external stakeholders
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to business stakeholders


About the team
We are a new global tech team working on innovating the cross-channel media strategy and planning, buying, marketing operations, campaign reporting and measurement processes.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 5+ years of technical product or program experience; or Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years of technical product or program experience.
- 3+ years of experience working with a software development team through multiple product/platform releases.
- 5+ years experience building complex, high-performance, and highly-available distributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
- 5+ years of experience communicating technical information to a variety of audiences.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of experience in a leadership position in cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.
- 8+ years experience building complex, high-performance, and highly-available distributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
- 5+ years of experience with continuous improvement of systems, software and processes through data analysis and metrics. 5+ years of experience with agile software development methodologies, especially Scrum, Kanban and/or Scrum-ban
- 2+ years experience working with NoSQL, AWS, micro-services architectures, RESTful APIs, and responsive human centered UI design.
- Previous experience with digital media companies or agencies is an advantage.

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.

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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.