Sr Technical Program Manager, Device Ad Products - Prime Video Display Ads

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

4d • $148,700 - $231,400 • Onsite

About The Position

We're on a journey to build advertising products that help advertisers reach their desired audiences and also delight our end users who use Amazon devices and 1P application such as Prime Video by serving them relevant Ads. We're looking for a talented senior TPM to drive complex, cross-organization goals to deliver innovative Ad experiences to our end users.

The right candidate will possess strong technical skills and have demonstrated experience in collaborating with teams who own medium to large distributed services. You must be able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You must be able to communicate up, down, and out to both technical and business audiences. You must be able to successfully drive, architect and scale services based on the program vision, anticipate bottlenecks, and balance business needs against technical constraints. You must take complex challenges and break them down into manageable projects, then work with technologists to prototype and engineering to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. You must be able to de-risk situations by taking a pragmatic approach and be willing to take calculated bets.

This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and verbal) with senior management on status, risks and strategy. Qualified candidates must have experience collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features; as well as analyze the cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization. In this role you would be interfacing with your immediate multi-discipline team, building relationships with partners across Amazon (ex. Advertising core stack and Prime Video) and communicate across diverse areas of the org (e.g., legal, finance). You own your projects end-to-end and help build and refine exciting new Ad experiences for Amazon.

As a Sr. Technical Program Manager on this team, you will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple projects within a program. You will manage the full lifecycle of a project starting with technical requirements, system design planning, stakeholder alignment, implementation, and production rollout. You will work alongside Program Managers, Product Managers, and engineers. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

This role is in the Entertainment, Device & Grocery ad Experiences (EDGE) team, which is part of the Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM) organization. Our team has a vision to create innovative Ad experiences on Amazon Devices, providing customers better convenience and more selection.

Requirements

• 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
• Excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and verbal) with senior management on status, risks and strategy.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Drive complex, cross-organization goals to deliver innovative Ad experiences to end users.
• Collaborate with teams who own medium to large distributed services.
• Communicate up, down, and out to both technical and business audiences.
• Successfully drive, architect and scale services based on program vision.
• Anticipate bottlenecks and balance business needs against technical constraints.
• Take complex challenges and break them down into manageable projects.
• Work with technologists to prototype and engineering to deliver projects successfully and in a timely manner.
• De-risk situations by taking a pragmatic approach and being willing to take calculated bets.
• Collect requirements, write detailed functional and test specifications.
• Coordinate efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features.
• Analyze the cost/benefit of feature selection and communicate results throughout the organization.
• Interface with immediate multi-discipline team.
• Build relationships with partners across Amazon (ex. Advertising core stack and Prime Video).
• Communicate across diverse areas of the org (e.g., legal, finance).
• Own projects end-to-end and help build and refine new Ad experiences for Amazon.
• Lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple projects within a program.
• Manage the full lifecycle of a project starting with technical requirements, system design planning, stakeholder alignment, implementation, and production rollout.
• Work alongside Program Managers, Product Managers, and engineers.
• Collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree