Sr. Technical Program Manager, Retail Pricing

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Retail Pricing team prices everything shipped and sold by Amazon, worldwide and cross-format. Our goal is to earn long term customer trust by offering the best prices to customers, across hundreds of millions of prices everyday. Experimentation, automation and scalability are a core part of our mission statement.

We are looking for a Sr. Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead the collaboration between WW Pricing and other internal teams, requiring deep technical coordination and integration capabilities. They will drive the delivery of sophisticated projects that impact our pricing, from ensuring prices remain sharp to new pricing strategies. The ideal candidate loves to think big, and has a passion for solving complex problems. They work backwards from customer/pricing problems. They actively collaborate with partner teams to drive towards successful program execution. They establish critical mechanisms to ensure alignment across teams, along with preparing strategic debates across partner teams and leadership. Successful candidates should thrive in a highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment oriented around delivering better prices to customers worldwide.

Come join a creative team dedicated to adventurously innovating across the breath of our strategies, products and channels.

We are an interdisciplinary team of Product Managers, Engineers, and Scientists incubating and building day one solutions to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon.

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

• Interact with Product Managers, other Technical Program Managers, Engineers, and Business partners to deliver complex cross-functional projects.
• Clearly communicate roadmap, plans and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders.
• Engage with other teams across Amazon to evangelize the team and your projects, to build relationships and help identify existing technologies that can be leveraged to meet your team’s goals.
• Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs versus constraints.
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.
• Present debates to senior executives and drive alignment with Amazon’s strategic objectives.

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed