Principal Tech Program Manager, Personalization
About The Position
Amazon’s Personalization team is responsible for tailoring the experience of every customer on Amazon’s most prominent pages, billions of times a day. Utilizing state of the art machine learning techniques, we build highly scalable, real-time systems that determine the content customers see across the Amazon ecosystem. As a TPM, you will work with a team of engineers designing and implementing advance page optimization systems, inventing ways to multiply the rate of innovation across the company on behalf of our customers. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to assimilate a large number of inputs from stakeholders, develop cohesive designs and functional specs, prioritize and deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. You will clearly communicate goals, requirements, roadmaps, and timelines to internal cross-functional and remote project teams. You are entrepreneurial, innovative, and thrive on solving complex problems. Maturity, sound business and technical judgement, negotiation skills, ability to influence, and leadership are essential to success in this role. You will have a unique opportunity with large scope and responsibility – you will directly impact and help manage features generating billions of dollars of revenue per year. You will collaborate with teams and leaders across the entire company, including the most strategic programs, and gain exposure to many aspects of the Amazon business. You will be a part of a fast paced, growing research and development team. If you want to help build the future of personalized merchandising on Earth’s biggest online retailer, we would love to talk to you!
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience in hands-on work managing complex technology projects
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of engineers designing and implementing advance page optimization systems.
- Invent ways to multiply the rate of innovation across the company on behalf of our customers.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints.
- Assimilate a large number of inputs from stakeholders, develop cohesive designs and functional specs, prioritize and deliver them in a successful and timely manner.
- Clearly communicate goals, requirements, roadmaps, and timelines to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.
- Directly impact and help manage features generating billions of dollars of revenue per year.
- Collaborate with teams and leaders across the entire company, including the most strategic programs.
- Gain exposure to many aspects of the Amazon business.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
