We are looking for a Senior TPM to join this org to lead few strategic projects including regionalization of Ads and driving regional flexibility in our architecture and infrastructure. To improve regional advertising experience across merchants/businesses, we are building a new regional solution to improve accuracy of regional Featured Offers surfaced to customers. This is important as we want to surface ads only at locations where shoppers can purchase the product. Similarly, we are working to make Ad serving delivery speed aware. We are looking for entrepreneurial and innovative TPM who thrives on solving tough problems and works across complex systems to help build simple solution.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the design of exciting projects and overcome complex technical, business and customer experience challenges at scale. You will be a catalyst for effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple geographically separated groups delivering jointly on highly-visible mission-critical systems. You will contribute to our success with your hands-on project management skills, deep technical expertise and excellent leadership skills.
In addition to Seattle, open to hiring in San Francisco, or New York City.
Key job responsibilities
• Responsible for the end-to-end project management functions of large programs including planning, risk and issue management, trade-offs and execution.
• Effectively collaborate with customers, technical staff and leaders, business leaders and executives to define and deliver complex features.
• Thrive in ambiguity, define and plan programs in a fast paced and highly-technical organization, and secure buy in from internal and external stakeholders.
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders. Anticipate bottlenecks and balance business needs versus technical constraints to move these projects forward quickly.
• Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
• In partnership with product management, lead yearly planning for engineering and business investments
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
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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 $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.