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Amazon Sr. Technical Program Manager, Sponsored Products, Sponsored Products - Demand Utilization in Arlington, Virginia
Description
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
The leader in this role will play a crucial part in driving the growth of Sponsored Products. As a Principal TPM you will lead the software development process across multiple engineering teams working in parallel. These are all highly technical projects, requiring extraordinary communication, planning, coordination, and timely execution to be successful. This offers a unique opportunity for you to be an owner, problem solver, and risk manager, operating with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity.
Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be detail-oriented, have excellent communication skills, and exhibit a deep understanding of system or service architecture and implementation details. You will have a consistent record of ownership of complex projects and demonstrated the ability to earn the trust of your partners. Your technical expertise and operational excellence will raise the bar and influence the team’s decisions, driving secure and robust solutions.
Key job responsibilities
Own the development of product strategy, marketing coordination, pre-launch success and roadmap toward delivery, including test and learn plans, product design architecture and product optimization tools for product market fit.
• Develop and own key metrics and customer success drivers through partnership consumer Stores organization, science, and business partners.
• Serve as the interface between partner teams to influence their roadmap and assure that we are positioned to deliver the highest value product for our customers.
• Provide thoughtful leadership rooted in data by generating customer insights, track competitive landscape and industry trends and inform product refinements to keep Amazon as the forefront leader of advertising.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
3+ years of software development experience
5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams 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
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, 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 $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.