We’re on the lookout for the curious, those who think big and want to define the world of tomorrow. At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact, visionary person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with exciting new challenges, developing new skills, and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow.
Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, scalable services technology in a team environment? Do you like working on industry-defining projects that move the needle?
At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand.
Key job responsibilities
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, 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.
A day in the life
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.
