Principal Technical Program Manager, Strategic Partnerships & IMPACT360

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The newly created Amazon’s Partnership Acceleration & Co-innovation Team is
responsible for delivering corporate strategy, formulating strategic deals that
accelerate the partnerships, and value maximizing through technical and business
adoption. We are seeking an innovative, strategic, and results-oriented leader
who will partner with the STO to manage the business operations and long term
strategy for this impactful organization.

We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to own large,
cross-organizational technical programs supporting strategic partnerships. These
programs span multiple Amazon and AWS teams and require coordination across
engineering, security, finance, legal, procurement, and business leadership.
In this role, you will translate partnership commitments into executable
technical and operational plans, ensure solutions meet AWS architectural and
operational standards, and provide clear, accurate communication to senior
internal leaders and external partners.

The role requires deep, hands-on technical knowledge of AWS architectures and
best practices, as well as exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience demonstrating technical breadth in AWS and/or cloud fundamentals
• Experience in verbal and written communication for executive level leaders
• 8+ years owning large-scale technical programs across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority in complex, ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of defining and executing against program timeline & requirements experience
• Deep familiarity with AWS services and architectural best practices; experience applying Well-Architected principles in production environments.
• Experience delivering programs tied to strategic partnerships or enterprise commitments.
• Track record of building durable mechanisms that improve execution quality over time.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, cross-org programs end-to-end
• Own program definition and delivery, including charter, success metrics, roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• Drive alignment across organizations that do not share reporting lines; manage competing priorities and unblock critical path issues.
• Ensure programs transition cleanly into steady-state ownership and operations.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural judgment
• Engage deeply on architecture, integration, and operational design across security, reliability, scalability, cost, and observability.
• Apply AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles to evaluate tradeoffs and identify gaps.
• Partner with architects, principal engineers, and service teams to converge on solutions that are robust, supportable, and operable.
• Executive communication and writing
• Own executive-ready narratives, including options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and clear decision asks.
• Produce high-quality written artifacts (one-pagers, six-pagers, decision memos, operating reviews).
• Communicate complex technical issues clearly to mixed audiences, including senior internal leaders and external partner executives.
• Proactively surface risks and manage expectations.
• Build mechanisms that scale
• Create and institutionalize mechanisms that improve cross-org execution, such as governance forums, decision logs, and readiness criteria.
• Identify recurring failure modes and address them through durable process, tooling, and ownership models.
• Raise program management maturity by improving planning, execution, and decision-making practices.
• Drive operating reviews and establish program health metrics.
• Build and maintain multi-quarter plans, dependency maps, and critical paths.
• Define team interfaces, launch criteria, operational handoffs, and runbooks.
• Manage delivery risk, including phased delivery, rollback planning, and launch readiness.
• Mentor TPMs and raise the bar through coaching and strong written narratives.

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

What This Job Offers

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