Sr. Tech Program Manager, Amazon Private Brands

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d

About The Position

The Team: Private Brands is a highly-visible, fast-growing business within
Amazon. We have a unique business and obsess over quality and building global
brands our customers love. We aspire to be part of our customers’ everyday lives
by offering them unique products at compelling prices backed by Amazon’s strong
customer obsessed reputation.

The Role: We are looking for an exceptional Senior TPM to help build a Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for Global Private Brands. Product
development in Private Brands is a complex and global process. Some of the steps
involved in getting a product from inception to the customer include Product
design, Quality certification, Third-party and in-house testing, Mass
production, Finalizing product label and packing, FDA approval (if ingestible)
etc. Finally, since this is a WW platform, the unique international requirements
add another layer of complexity. These different workflows involve complex
sub-tasks and interactions with different retail systems, making this a truly
complex and challenging capability with deep tentacles across many systems. The
goal of this platform is to improve speed, drastically reduce the time to
market, and enhance productivity across the entire product development process.
You will work with stakeholders across the US & EU in Hardlines, Softlines, and
Consumables Private Brands to define requirements and gain alignment to deliver
a seamless product experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
• Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• help us build the PLM solution that will allow to drastically reduce the time-to-market for launching new Private Brands products
• help us determine the right way to build the platform
• help ensure the platform is designed to minimize operational burden and the costs of future change
• gathering requirements across the many systems with complex dependencies
• creating and maintaining technical project plans
• diving into the technical details to understand the nuances and complexities involved
• be a great communicator
• successfully drive large-scale projects
• present and align with a variety of stakeholders

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