We are looking for a Technical Program Manager for our Advertising Identity program in Palo Alto, CA. Amazon's Ad Tech business builds highly scalable infrastructure and tooling that handles billions of advertising queries every day and provides the foundation for Amazon’s rapidly growing advertising business.
As part of Ad Tech, the Advertising Identity program powers intelligent ad buying by developing the underlying id spine for programmatic advertising. Our products help optimize performance and deliver personalized experiences in an ever-evolving privacy landscape, delivering ads when customers are listening to a podcast during their morning commute, shopping on the Amazon Store, or watching a movie on Prime Video. We enable a suite of ads products, from planning, audience onboarding and delivery, reach and frequency forecasting, to data collaboration and measurement.
As a senior technology program owner you will leverage your understanding of digital advertising / marketing to deliver complex cross-functional technology initiatives. You will define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data, manage risks, drive improvements that are quantified with metrics, and influence resource allocation. You will deeply understand our products and underlying tech, its limitations, and scaling factors. You will guide teams to prioritize not just what’s urgent but what’s most important to create a better advertiser and end customer experience.
What you will do on a day-to-day basis:
* Manage the lifecycle of complex cross-functional initiatives that span many teams, including business, engineering, science, legal, privacy, and policy teams.
* Serve as technical liaison for our engineering & science teams. Translate customer’s business requirements into technical specifications.
* Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure we build scalable solutions that meet customer needs.
* Steer teams to work on not just what’s urgent, but what’s most important. Recommend alternative technical approaches to hit tight timelines and de-risk the critical path.
By joining Advertising Identity, you will experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world’s leading Internet companies.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of technical product or program management 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
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in AdTech/MarTech- Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
- Familiarity with regional and state privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA.
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
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
