Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Ads PubTech

Amazon • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our PubTech (Publisher Technologies) team to lead complex, high-impact technical programs that shape how publishers monetize and improve their customer experiences across the globe. You'll work on large-scale engineering initiatives that solve endemic problems, operating with independence while partnering with leadership across the organization to define strategy, build consensus, and drive meaningful organizational change. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager who will be responsible for defining and delivering programs with significant complexity and/or that have broad cross-organizational, global, or technology impact. Your work will focus on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex or endemic problems. You will be trusted to operate with complete independence and are often assigned to focus on areas where the business and/or architectural strategy has not yet been defined.

Requirements

• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

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
• Experience in publisher, ad tech or agency ad serving systems like Ad Manager 360 or FreeWheel

Responsibilities

• Effectively partner with all levels of leadership.
• Build consensus.
• Represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leaders up to 3 levels above to help them understand the decisions they have to make and what options they have.
• Influence organization priorities, system owners, business, and technology direction.
• Manage cross-functional communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed and needs aligned.
• Recognize when current programs are susceptible to prior technology failure patterns and actively steer teams to avoid repeating these failures. Know when a design or solution requires additional technical guidance (e.g., from senior engineers or subject matter experts).
• Show excellent judgment in driving executive-level escalations.
• Deliver solutions that meet Amazon high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence.
• Amplify your impact by educating the TPM and engineering communities (e.g., in your organization, at your location, or more broadly) on program management best practices. Participate, sharing knowledge and collaborating with other TPMs, specifically attending and/or presenting at internal conferences.

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