Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Product Catalog, Amazon

$133,900 - $231,400/Yr

Amazon - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Senior

Sunnyvale, CA

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon's Product Catalog is responsible for driving developer productivity, simplifying architecture, and enhancing operational efficiency within the team. This role involves collaborating with engineering managers and cross-functional partners to identify and implement initiatives that streamline development workflows and optimize processes, ultimately contributing to the management of Amazon's extensive product catalog.

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with executive sponsors to define problems and deliver large scale cross-functional projects spanning many teams.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to understand the team's challenges, pain points, and areas for optimization in the development lifecycle, system architectures, and operational processes.
• Lead efforts to simplify complex system architectures and reduce technical debt, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Work closely with engineers and engineering leaders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and ensure that initiatives are aligned with their workflows and preferences.
• 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.
• Evangelize best practices, share learnings, and promote a culture of continuous improvement, architectural simplicity, and operational excellence within the engineering organization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market location and experience
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package
• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits