About The Position

Join AWS as a Technical Program Manager and scale the design system that powers customer experiences across AWS digital properties. In this role, you'll connect product, engineering, design, and partner teams across the organization, driving alignment to deliver experiences that millions of AWS customers use daily. Design systems sit at the intersection of design, engineering, and product, which means navigating multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and complex dependencies. You'll bring it all together by working closely with engineers to drive features to completion, building the processes and mechanisms that enable the team to scale, and communicating the impact of what we're building to the broader organization. We're seeking someone who influences without authority and navigates complex organizational dynamics. You'll align stakeholders across multiple teams, manage dependencies that span organizations, and build consensus among groups with different priorities.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 2+ years of software development experience
  • 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
  • Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Nice To Haves

  • 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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
  • Experience working with design systems, component libraries, or front-end platform teams

Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering to drive features to completion, removing blockers and ensuring timely delivery
  • Dive deep into technical implementations to understand constraints and drive clarity with engineering and product teams
  • Establish scalable mechanisms and processes that enable the team to operate efficiently as it grows
  • Own communications about the team's work, from release notes to leadership updates to organizational announcements
  • Drive cross-functional alignment and facilitate decision-making among stakeholders with competing priorities
  • Serve as the primary coordinator between design system consumers and contributors, building relationships that drive adoption
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives, managing dependencies and driving consensus across team boundaries
  • Identify and mitigate risks through proactive stakeholder engagement and transparent communication

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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