Sr. Technical Program Manager, Prime Tech

$133,900 - $231,400/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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

About the position

The Sr. Technical Program Manager for Amazon Prime is a pivotal role within a cross-functional team responsible for leading large technology initiatives that enhance customer experience and drive business goals. This position involves collaborating with various software and business teams to deliver high-impact projects, ensuring that the solutions align with Amazon's strategic objectives. The role offers an exciting opportunity to influence the future of Amazon Prime by leveraging a wide array of technologies and fostering relationships across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Be a guardian of world-class customer experience for deliverables, continually raising the bar on functionality, flow, consistency, usability, and simplicity.
• Act as the interface between product owners and the development team, thoroughly understanding the product, defining user stories, and evaluating appropriate technical solutions to meet business requirements.
• Own engagement with partners, decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical leadership.
• Make informed feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising customer experience and business relevance.
• Engage with various teams in the company, evangelizing the team and project, building relationships, and identifying existing components and technologies to leverage for goal achievement.
• Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company.

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

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