We are Sponsored Brand org within Amazon Advertising. Our vision is to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover engage and build affinity with brands making shopping beautiful delightful & personal.
We are looking for a Technical Program Manager that has experience bootstrapping and delivering largescale projects. You will have experience in Ad Tech contributing to the product vision and roadmap. You will get an opportunity to deliver critical features to our customers WW. You will work closely with software engineers and product managers across different teams on a daily basis to define system architecture elaborate user stories and discuss technical tradeoffs. You will negotiate features and release timelines between multiple internal teams to maximize the benefit to Amazon and our customers. This role is inherently crossfunctional you will work closely with Engineering Product Business and Executive teams.
The right candidate will possess a strong program management background will have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects and will have handson technical experience in the past. This means you are not only able to develop and drive highlevel strategic initiatives but can also roll up your sleeves and dive deep. You will anticipate bottlenecks provide escalation management make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You will have demonstrable experience in taking large complex projects and breaking them down into manageable pieces developing functional specifications then delivering in a successful and timely manner. are essential to be success in this role.
Key job responsibilities
1. Work with internal partners and customers to scope and launch new products or features.
2. Plan and deliver new advertising products endtoend working with our engineering teams.
3. Develop mechanisms to scale our business and infrastructure including; OP1/OP2 hardware planning stakeholder communication and cross team coordination.
4. Collect business and systems requirements from internal and external customers write specifications drive project schedules from design to release and manage the production launch.
5. Dive deep into the Amazon Ads architecture and systems to learn about new opportunities and or ways to invent and simplify our approach.
6. Continuously raise the bar of the team e.g. conduct retrospectives participate in design reviews and plan and execute user acceptance testing.
7. Clearly communicate goals risks roles responsibilities and desired outcomes to internal crossfunctional project teams.
8. Anticipate bottlenecks provide escalation management make tradeoffs to optimize timetomarket and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
About the team
We are Sponsored Brand Ad Serving and Supply team. Our teams owns core Ad Serving services (a lowlatency high TPS distributed system) Video Ads and new Supply expansions. These services serve both billions of Amazon shoppers and millions of Advertisers internationally. We will be working on multiple crossorg architectural and business projects with highest impact and visibility all are critical forwardlooking strategic opportunities for Amazon. Our vision is to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover engage and build affinity with brands making shopping beautiful delightful & personal.
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
Experience building and evaluating systemlevel technical design
Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
Experience in Ad Tech / Digital Advertisement
5 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
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.