The Retail Infrastructure Services team within Amazon Worldwide Grocery Store Tech is looking for a passionate and innovative Manager, Deployment Technical Program to join our team. We have an opportunity to revolutionize the brick-and-mortar grocery shopping experience and set new standards for accessing the highest quality organic and natural groceries across the US, Canada, and the UK in Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh banner stores.
As a leader on the team you will own and drive large projects across the Retail Infrastructure technology space. You will be a key member of tech initiatives and help your team drive forward technology solutions working with delivery teams, infrastructure engineers, database engineers, mobile engineers, and deployment program managers to create a best-in-class grocery shopping experience. Your team will facilitate technical whiteboard sessions to troubleshoot project implementation issues and remove barriers to project success, stand up cross-functional teams, establish trust with a variety of stakeholders, design solutions, remove blockers, and find creative ways to accelerate project delivery. Your experience working hands on and demonstrating the skills necessary for your team members is a must.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be an exceptionally strong communicator, both written and verbally, and possess experience in tactical project management of highly technical initiatives, as well as strategic program management. They will be able to apply a variety of project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project lifecycle and exhibit demonstrated experience in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting, and metric development/tracking. They will have experience hiring strong team members and developing and leading strong teams.
A day in the life
This leader will be hiring and developing strong team members that will work with engineering teams to develop solutions for our retail stores. The leader will remove barriers, manage trusted relationships with stakeholders, and negotiate with vendors.
About the team
This team is responsible for leading complex and challenging projects that will deliver innovative infrastructure solutions for point-of-sale (POS), self-checkout (SCO), service scale, mobility, and printing solutions to our physical stores.5+ years of technical product or program management experience
7+ years of working directly with infrastructure engineering teams experience
5+ years experience leading infrastructure teams
5+ years of technical program management working directly with infrastructure engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must5+ 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
Experience managing third-party partner relationships
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