Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon

Amazon • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $171,000 - $231,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is continuing to invest in its Worldwide Online Display Advertising business to tap into the growing online advertising market. Amazon is using its first class technology, unique user data, and cross-device user identification to become the go-to solution for the world’s largest advertising agencies and advertisers. To meet this goal, Amazon is investing in our proprietary Amazon Demand Side Platform (DSP).

The DSP Engineering team within Multichannel Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazon’s advertising business. The DSP team owns the web app for advertisers to place orders for programmatic ad campaigns on Amazon and most other sites across the Internet. Think order management including capturing limit prices, targeting customer segments, spreadsheet-style inline editing, bulk order editing, integration with algorithms, and connectivity to advertising exchanges.

As a Sr. TPM, you will be focused on implementing major changes throughout a complex, low-latency, high throughput advertising ecosystem.
You will also be excellent at driving results, being able to build solutions for large, multi-functional projects on-time, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. You are responsible for defining technical design and building world-class software that pushes boundaries.

About you:
You want to work on projects where you are implementing solutions to real problems that require creative solutions and deep understanding of the problem space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better and often disruptive solutions. You know how to work cross-functionally to create alignment and deliver results. You're a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by going and building the solution. You want to create value and impact the direction of entire industries.
This role will involve driving products impacting many areas of our business. The individual in this role will have responsibility through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration with global sales and account management teams. You will directly build the next generation of Amazon's display ad serving systems. This role requires a deeply technical person that can work at this scale but also interface with business teams and ensure our products delight our advertising customers.

We’re looking for experienced, motivated TPMs with a proven track record of delivering complex programs. You’ll be responsible for owning the delivery of complex systems used by customers to build, manage and serve innovative ad solutions. Our team works across Amazon. We deliver solutions to complex problems from ideation to design to implementation in a fast-paced environment. With our team you’ll get the opportunity to own & drive major initiatives and build complex solutions. You’ll work with customers directly, to scope, design, implement and launch new features quickly and iteratively. We believe in teamwork and in delivering rock solid, customer obsessed solutions.

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
• Work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff
• Adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service
• Follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies
• Exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others
• Exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism
• Safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation

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

Responsibilities

• Implementing major changes throughout a complex, low-latency, high throughput advertising ecosystem.
• Building solutions for large, multi-functional projects on-time.
• Anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management, and making trade-offs.
• Balancing business needs versus technical constraints.
• Defining technical design and building world-class software.
• Driving products impacting many areas of our business through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration with global sales and account management teams.
• Directly building the next generation of Amazon's display ad serving systems.
• Owning the delivery of complex systems used by customers to build, manage and serve innovative ad solutions.
• Delivering solutions to complex problems from ideation to design to implementation in a fast-paced environment.
• Owning and driving major initiatives and building complex solutions.
• Working with customers directly, to scope, design, implement and launch new features quickly and iteratively.

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: No Education Listed