Amazon is hiring: Pr. Technical Program Manager, Device Ads in Sunnyvale

Pr. Technical Program Manager, Device Ads

Job ID: 2874796 | Amazon Advertising LLC - B11

We're on a journey to build Ad products that help Advertisers reach their desired audiences and also delight our end users who use Amazon devices and bring them relevant Ads. We're looking for a talented Technical Program Manager to join our team of product managers and engineers to conceive, design, and develop innovative Ad experiences for our device customers.

Key Job Responsibilities

The right candidate will possess strong technical skills and have demonstrated experience in collaborating with teams who own medium to large distributed services. You must be able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You must be able to communicate up, down, and out to both technical and business audiences. You must be able to successfully drive, architect and scale services based on the program vision, anticipate bottlenecks, and balance business needs against technical constraints. You must take complex challenges and break them down into manageable projects, then work with technologists to prototype and engineering to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. You must be able to de-risk situations by taking a pragmatic approach and be willing to take calculated bets.

This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and verbal) with senior management on status, risks and strategy. Qualified candidates must have experience collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features; as well as analyze the cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization. In this role you would be interfacing with your immediate multi-discipline team, building relationships with partners across Amazon (ex. Advertising core stack, FireTV, Prime Video, Alexa, and other Devices) and communicate across diverse areas of the org (e.g., legal, finance). You own your projects end-to-end and help build and refine exciting new Ad experiences for Amazon.

A Day in the Life

As a Pr. Technical Program Manager on this team, you will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple programs across this multiple initiatives. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, documentation and measurement) of software teams that are delivering for the programs you manage. You will work alongside Program Managers, Product Managers, and engineers. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
2. 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
3. 5+ years of software development experience
4. Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
5. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
6. Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
2. Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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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