Love aviation and technology Want to help deliver businesscritical tools and solutions to Amazon Air Then come soar with Air Science & Tech! Amazon Air (operating global air cargo flight and ground operations) needs YOU to lead the integration across fulfillment ground and airtransportation operations to run hundreds of flights per day supporting sameday shipping. Amazon Air is big and growing and enabling this requires investment in science and technology to scale the operation.
Amazon Air Science and Technology (AST) team is looking for an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager who thrives in dealing with ambiguity and able to independently drive efforts building endtoend planning and decision support systems for the Amazon Air program. This is a leadership position that requires both initiative and a great amount of technical program management depth within and across organizations to help build new and leverage existing fulfillment and transportation technologies to achieve our product vision.
This position involves regular communication with senior management on status risks and change control owning complex orgwide initiatives thought leadership a high degree of independence ownership bias for action and making right a lot decisions. Additionally this position requires the ability to think big and facilitate longterm research that contributes to a multiyear product roadmap.
Strong candidates will be able to understand and influence the development of largescale distributed services to drive solutions across multiple teams have excellent communication skills a passion for building simple elegant and architecturallysound systems and drive results.
Key job responsibilities
Partner with Air Operations stakeholders to define modify and improve businesscritical processes for automation and optimization
Own and drive accurate portfoliowide status of projects via Weekly Business Reviews
Identify mitigate and resolve technical challenges across multiple solutions and services
Create and execute GoToMarket strategies in collaboration with Product Management partner teams and Network Planning and Capacity Management
Drive enterprisewide adoption through evangelism and change management efforts
Lead businesscase analysis and commercial solution evaluations which lead to datadriven build vs. buy decisions
Perform duties as the business focal to manage and maintain relationships with our Air partners and external vendors
About the team
The Air Science & Tech team (AST) is the dedicated technology team for Amazon Air. You will work alongside PMs PgMs SDMs SDEs and Scientists to help build Amazons air cargo business.
AST is part of the Amazon Transportation Services Tech organization and works with other ATS Tech teams (Sort Tech Transportation Core Tech) to deliver integrated solutions for Operations.
5 years of technical product or program management experience
7 years of working directly with engineering teams 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
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 KPIs/SLAs used to drive multimillion dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.