Principal Tech Program Manager, Ads AI Core Services

Amazon • Seattle, WA

11h • $177,000 - $239,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is heavily investing in building a world-class advertising business, focusing on defining and delivering self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. These products are strategically important for Retail and Marketplace businesses, contributing to long-term growth by delivering billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily. The Ads AI Core infrastructure team develops core services for Advertiser Registration and Access Management, Ad Catalog Service, Billing, Data Ingestion/Publishing, and Analytics, which support advertising programs like Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands. This role involves collaborating with numerous teams across WW Advertising to enhance the resilience of advertising systems. As a Principal Technical Program Manager, the focus is entirely on the customer, understanding their needs, anticipating future trends, and driving results. This includes coordinating large, multi-functional projects on time, anticipating bottlenecks, managing escalations, making trade-offs, and balancing business needs with technical constraints. The role also involves defining or reviewing systems-level technical designs, rationalizing technical requirements and business priorities in cross-functional teams, and managing communication to align all stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong program management background, experience leading medium to large products and projects, and a solid understanding of current web technologies. They must thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, be comfortable with ambiguity, and possess maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, influence, and leadership. The role requires a data-driven and analytical approach to understand business metrics and growth aspirations, along with excellent verbal and written communication skills for all organizational levels, including senior management. The position is suited for someone motivated by managing initiatives that span multiple teams.

Requirements

• 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
• Strong program management background
• Demonstrated experience leading medium to large products and projects
• Well-rounded background in current web technologies
• Ability to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities
• Maturity
• High judgment
• Negotiation skills
• Ability to influence
• Leadership
• Data-driven and analytical
• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written - able to clearly communicate at all levels in the organization, including senior management

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

• Be 100% focused on the customer, understanding their needs and requirements, plus anticipating future trends that will serve their needs.
• Drive results, coordinating large, multi-functional projects on-time.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
• Be involved in defining or reviewing the systems-level technical design of projects and balance near term business need with long term implications for Amazon.
• Rationalize technical requirements and business priorities in cross-functional teams.
• Manage cross-functional communication to ensure all business and technical stakeholder’s needs are aligned.
• Develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives.
• Roll up sleeves, dig in and get the job done.
• Constantly strive to expand understanding of the metrics that drive business and growth aspirations.
• Manage initiatives that span multiple teams.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed