Principal TPM, Enterprise Engineering
About The Position
Enterprise Engineering builds and operates the internal tools, platforms, and AI-powered services that enable over 1.5 million Amazonians to do their best work every day — from endpoint management and collaboration to cutting-edge productivity experiences, all at massive global scale. We're seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead high-impact, cross-functional, company wide projects. This role requires working closely with product management to define strategy and requirements, collecting business and systems requirements from customers and business units, writing specifications, and leading development teams from design through delivery and subsequent operation. You will be expected to make appropriate trade-offs to optimize launch timelines, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional project teams. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks, and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills, executive communication and very strong technical competency are essential. The ideal candidate will possess a strong program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects through multiple complete product development cycles, and will have a well-rounded technical background in current technologies. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in, and get the job done. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop detailed functional and test specifications, schedule, and deploy new feature sets in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high product judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
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
- Strong program management background
- Demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects through multiple complete product development cycles
- Well-rounded technical background in current technologies
- Ability to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities
- Ability to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives
- Ability to roll up sleeves, dig in, and get the job done
- Excellent listening, writing skills, executive communication and very strong technical competency are essential.
- Maturity, high product judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
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
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional, company wide projects.
- Work closely with product management to define strategy and requirements.
- Collect business and systems requirements from customers and business units.
- Write specifications.
- Lead development teams from design through delivery and subsequent operation.
- Make appropriate trade-offs to optimize launch timelines.
- Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional project teams.
- Regularly communicate with senior management on status, risks, and product strategy.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
- Take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces.
- Develop detailed functional and test specifications.
- Schedule and deploy new feature sets in a successful and timely manner.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
