Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced amazing devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Hearables, Wearables, and Smart Eyewear. What will you help us create?
As a System TPM, you lead the hardware engineering teams in developing products from concept to mass production. You own the end-to-end schedule, report on engineering issues, define mitigation strategies, lead cost down efforts, and keep senior management up-to-date on progress.
Key job responsibilities
As a Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. In this role, you will:
- Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
- Deep dive on key technical issues and lead teams to find solutions within program constraints
- Own cross functional development schedules
- Lead cross functional development on new technology from design through mass production, working across all hardware disciplines
- Work with remote teams across the world and travel to Asia to complete prototype builds to test and validate our product designs.
- Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and to drive key decision making
- Manage resource prioritization, drive cost down efforts, look around corners to prevent common development pitfalls.
- Lead key product development milestones following a waterfall style development within hardware.
About the team
We are a team of hardware TPMs with varying engineering backgrounds. We thrive at problem solving, driving leadership decisions, looking around corners, and leading teams to bring devices to market!- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years hardware design or development experience, consumer electronics preferred- 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience with management reporting and strong technical communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be able to handle ambiguity when dealing with complex problems and able to drive consensus across organizations. Experience with managing or mentoring younger employees is preferred.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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
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