Sr. Technical Program Manager, Luna

$133,900 - $231,400/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

You will be part of the unique and gifted Amazon Luna team working on delivering exciting and cutting-edge products and features to consumers. The Luna team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers, scientists, product managers, and business people engaged in a fast-paced mission to deliver these products and features. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, technical invention, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership and meticulousness. You should also be comfortable collaborating regularly with colleagues across many of Amazon's current businesses and services. The Luna initiative is a fast-paced, highly collaborative startup-like environment inside Amazon. To be successful, you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial, comfortable operating with ambiguity, and willing to develop quick proof of concepts. You are a true owner - you are passionate about the potential customer and societal impact and will operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product. You will own distribution of Luna on Amazon devices and third-party devices in addition to overall management of Luna Beta programs.

Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
• Create processes, mechanisms, and tools that shape the delivery of the program
• Manage ambiguity and competing priorities while staying focused on short term and long-term goals
• Earn trust through regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control
• Own the metrics for project success. Define, measure and report on these metrics. We make decisions based on data
• Be resourceful and find creative solutions to complex technical and organizational challenges
• Own and manage end to end Beta for the Luna org; recruit, support and aggregate feedback for critical features as a key launch readiness input.

Requirements

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management 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

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other forms of compensation