"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better." - Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO.
We didn’t make Amazon a multi-billion dollar company, our customers did and we want to ensure that our customers have a positive experience that keeps them coming back to Amazon. To help achieve this, the Worldwide Defect Elimination (WWDE) team relentlessly focuses on maintaining customer trust by building products that offer appropriate resolutions to resolve issues faced by our customers.
The WWDE org creates shared services to fulfill the vision of hub that channels voice of customer that enable business teams across Amazon to demonstrate their Customer Obsession. We build and own services that process billions of customer feedback items near-real time, provide self-service suite of products and services that easily finds, identifies, and ensures relevant customer feedback is addressed by the right stakeholders at the right time. Ultimately this vision drives the Amazon flywheel by generating business insights, surfacing opportunities for customer delighters that can be actioned to improve experiences, exposing defects that are connected to defect resolvers across Amazon to eliminate defects resulting in improved customer experience.
We utilize Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models to constantly listen to these signals and identify systemic and recurring root cause defects which are then relayed to upstream Amazon ordering and fulfilment systems to ensure such defects are eliminated at the source. WWDE uses this hub to drive the famous Andon Cord mechanism at Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
A Technical Program Manager (TPM) is responsible for the end to end delivery of a product. They need to work with a product or projects various Technical Program Managers and Development Managers to ensure that status is properly reported and mechanisms are in place to report and escalate dependencies between teams.
TPMs are expected to support the team in making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.
A day in the life
TPMs need to not only excel in operating at a strategic level but also need to understand when to dive deep to keep the project on track. Specifically, TPMs must set the bar on the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines. Along with that, they need to clearly and concisely communicate, both verbally and in writing, with senior management on status, risks and required mitigations to maintain project commitments.
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
About the team
It is still day 1 for Defect Elimination systems offering considerable opportunities for building solutions from the ground-up and for personal career growth. You will also be highly encouraged to own, innovate and lead significant contribution towards our long term vision and architecture.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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
- Bachelor's Degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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.
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.