Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Homepage
About The Position
Amazon’s mission is to be the world’s most customer-centric company, and our homepage is how millions of customers begin their interactions with Amazon every day. We are a global team responsible for designing, developing and shipping one of the world’s best known companies. We start with the customer and work backwards in order to build great customer experiences for mobile phones (both applications and web, desktops and tablets. If you’ve ever visited an Amazon homepage and thought, “this is great” or “this could be better,” we’re the team to talk to. As a Technical Program Manager, you will provide technical leadership and influence the entire engineering life cycle. You will own many of our hardest problems – translating customer and business needs into workable technology solutions. Ideal candidates have an exceptional program management background and have experience leading large projects spanning multiple teams. Their technical expertise is deep and broad and they are hands-on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. They are a leader and a mentor, setting excellent examples for your team and the entire Amazon engineering community.
Requirements
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management 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
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
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and influence the entire engineering life cycle.
- Own many of our hardest problems – translating customer and business needs into workable technology solutions.
- Lead large projects spanning multiple teams.
- Produce both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
- Set excellent examples for your team and the entire Amazon engineering community.
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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
