Principal Technology Manager, Business Data Technologies

Amazon • Detroit, MI

9d • $177,000 - $239,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day, eCF builds for scale. As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group is no exception. We collect exabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside Amazon including the Amazon catalog system, inventory system, customer order system, page views on the website and Alexa systems. We also support Amazon subsidiaries such as IMDB and Audible. We provide interfaces for our internal customers to access and query the data hundreds of thousands of times per day, using Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Redshift, Hive, Spark and Oracle. We build scalable solutions that grow with the Amazon business.

Are you passionate about Program Management and technology? Are you passionate about eliminating redundant efforts that solve similar customer needs? Here's your chance to lead a highly visible initiative with significant business impact. The senior leaders need a light weight mechanism to help bring visibility, share best practices, and provide better communication and collaboration across teams. This role works closely with Tech Director, VPs and Principal Engineers to identify patterns, new trends, goals and areas for cross-org collaboration. This role is unique in that it does not support just one organization, instead focuses on best practices that can be applicable to several or all within Stores, Devices and Others.

In this role, you will be responsible for projects that span across the organization and contribute to our eCF community.

The right candidate will have proven Program Management skills and the ability to translate technical needs and pain points, into projects or programs that scale. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to work with technical teams across various groups to create strategy for and drive programs. The right candidate will have excellent organizational skills and proven program management experience with meticulous attention to detail and strong bias for action. Most of the project teams you’ll be working directly with are volunteers to the effort so being able to influence without authority will be very important to this role and your success. To be successful in this position, you must be highly motivated, creative and a self-starter with strong time management skills who is able to see the big picture, execute flawlessly, and drive against timelines and project roadmaps.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
• Experience managing complex external partner/vendor relationships where you do not have direct authority over delivery teams
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted personal relationships with senior technical leaders (Director/VP level) across organizational boundaries
• Track record of delivering results in highly ambiguous environments with complete independence

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 mentoring and developing other program managers in partner management skills.
• Experience owning and driving operational planning (OP) processes and business review mechanisms (MBR/QBR) at the VP+ level
• Experience with top level organizational goal management
• MBA or advanced technical degree

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal team members to establish mechanism for inspection and awareness of progress across cross cutting initiatives such as Engineering Excellence and other.
• Creation of communication mechanisms for collaboration across SVPs in the broader Consumer.
• Document, maintain and report on program processes
• Identify and manage operational best practices with a focus on efficiency and customer satisfaction
• Collaborate with and support NA Consumer Tech leaders/members in execution of program initiatives
• Identify new areas of engagement and focus and where teams can continue to drive innovation through the Tech Community.
• Effective communication with Senior and VP level partners both written and verbal
• Perform general administrative functions such as scheduling meetings, event management, and marketing

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)

What This Job Offers

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