As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you define the strategic vision for the search engine infrastructure that delivers delightful experience to our customers in their shopping mission. You will partner with business experts, data modelers, scientists, and engineers by leveraging new trends in Information retrieval, low latency and high throughput distributed systems, deep learning inference systems, and fault-tolerant application hosting frameworks. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, and will work with technical customers to identify and prioritize needs, able to effectively influence up and across the organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities to deliver quality search experiences that customers love. As a single-threaded owner, you are trusted to operate with complete independence.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and lead a multi-year product roadmap, balancing short and long-term goals to scale globally
- Define creative, high quality, and clear roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
- Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create specifications and architecture for search engine infrastructure features
- Partner with Engineering, Science, Operations, and partner teams to create best-in-class search solutions for customers
- Analyze stakeholder feedback to identify key pain points
- Build innovative concepts and successfully champion them through senior management and other teams
- Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building resilient systems that power great customer experiences
- Roll up sleeves as necessary to ensure projects stay on schedule and meet our high standards of quality
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition- 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.
