Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial, fast paced environment, solving complex technical problems and delivering innovative solutions? Are you looking for a highly visible role working with business and technical stakeholders across multiple teams with the opportunity to have a significant impact? If so, then keep reading as this could be the role for you!
Amazon is looking for a dynamic, innovative and accomplished Principal Technical Program Manager to join the SPS Tech Program Mgmt team under Worldwide Selling Partner Services organization.
In this role you will be responsible for scoping complex projects and delivering simple, elegant solutions by collecting product and business requirements, driving the development schedule from design to release, making appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, and clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional teams. You will interact with a broad cross section of the Amazon organization as you clarify ambiguous issues and negotiate effective technical solutions between development and business teams. You will anticipate bottlenecks and escalate issues when required in order to ensure on-time delivery.
The role requires a seasoned individual who has excellent experience as a Principal Technical Program Manager for distributed SOA software systems and can guide high-level technical design as well as think about potential, future areas of fraud that our platform might encounter.
Key job responsibilities
Build project plans by working backwards, set milestones, establish mechanisms, and bring the right people together to solve technical problems and ensure successful delivery.
Coordinate with leaders and stakeholders in multiple teams across Tech, Business and Operations to drive data-driven decisions and alignment to achieve the program goals.
Dive deep into technical blockers, and work with development teams to unblock delivery or find a path to resolution.
Create technical design documents, influence technical priorities, and apply project management best practices to increase the effectiveness and impact of your programs.
Identify blind spots, look around corners to identify improvement opportunities, and provide the technical glue between multiple teams/orgs and in areas that do not have clear lines of ownership.
Understand the architecture of the systems you work with (e.g., workflows, APIs, design limitations, and maintenance requirements).
Communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences including Directors and VPs. This includes writing emails, documents, and hotly debated topics for senior leaders.
Lead the resolution of contentious issues, drive escalations, identify and mitigate risks for project delivery, and ensure regular status reporting.
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/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.
