Sr. Technical Program Manager, Audio + Podcast Ads
About The Position
Want to work in a start-up environment with the resources of Amazon behind you? This is your chance to have a positive impact on millions of Amazon customers worldwide while working with industry-leading technologies. We're building an engineering team in New York to support our new Podcast Advertising business. We're looking for a passionate, team-oriented, and talented Senior Software Engineer with experience leading and building innovative, sophisticated platforms and experiences that customers love. This is a unique opportunity to get in early and drive significant portions of the technical roadmap. Podcast Ads is an exciting new program that is pioneering new experiences to help brands (sellers, vendors, influencers) have a presence on digital audio services. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers across our owned and operated and other leading high-quality services across millions of Alexa, mobile and desktop devices. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. As a Sr. TPM you will influence the software development process across multiple engineering teams working in parallel. Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be detail-oriented, have excellent communication skills, and pose a deep understanding of system or service architecture and implementation details. You will have a consistent record of ownership of complex projects and demonstrated the ability to earn the trust of your partners. Candidate’s technical expertise and operational excellence will raise the bar and influence the team’s decisions and drive secure and robust solutions which have great customer experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 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
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Responsibilities
- Influence the software development process across multiple engineering teams working in parallel.
- Manage programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
- Build and evaluate system-level technical design.
- Develop and execute/deliver product and technical roadmaps.
- Define KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
