Interested in earning loyalty and trust of millions of shoppers world-wide? Want to help drive repeat business for shoppers? Looking to build and maintain world-class software services and influence shopper behavior all over the world? Seeking an environment where you can continuously innovate and grow as a developer? Want to integrate with best-of-breed bleeding-edge utility computing systems? To have an immediate impact and build large systems for the future?
Did you answer yes to the above questions? Are you ready for a unique challenge? Then this is the job for you!
As a member of Amazon.com's global E-commerce development team, you'll play a key role in leading our promotions platform to solve the world’s most complex technical challenges in scalability, distributed systems, large-scale computing, and Web applications – just to name a few. Promotions systems are responsible for creating, messaging, and calculating discounts for promotional campaigns for all Amazon websites world-wide as well as those of our e-commerce partners. Our systems are invoked by website shopping applications hundreds of millions of times each day! Retail Promotions is hiring a Principal technical program manager to own part of our global business. You'll own technical programs, and solutions across three teams in PXS - Pittsburgh, Seattle and Berlin.
Key job responsibilities
1) Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects
2) Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps, dependency identifications, and resourcing plans
3) Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet required timelines
4) Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on plans, status, and critical issues
5) Partner as a technical liaison between product and engineering teams
