Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising offering a rich array of digital advertising with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on across our other owned and operated sites on other high quality sites across the web and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do including advertising. If youre interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique worldclass advertising product with a relentless focus on the customer youve come to the right place.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Technical Program Manager youll need to be a pragmatic strategist that can translate business needs into workable technology solutions that scale both technologically and operationally. You will partner with business experts engineers UX and scientists by leveraging new trends in Information retrieval low latency and high throughput distributed systems deep learning inference systems and faulttolerant application hosting frameworks. Successful candidates will have an established track record of delivery of complex software systems excellent project management skills keen technical aptitude solid communication skills and be driven to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
1) Own successful delivery of large high impact and highly crossfunctional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects.
2) Drive strategic crossfunctional planning leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps dependency identifications and resourcing plans.
3) Manage bottlenecks provide escalation management anticipate and make tradeoffs balance the business needs versus technical constraints and maximize business benefit while building resilient systems that power great customer experiences.
About the team
The Display Ad Formats team is responsible for designing developing and optimizing the visual and functional elements of advertising formats across multiple advertising products. This team focuses on creating innovative and effective ad experiences that balance advertiser goals with user experience. We work on everything from standard display units to rich media formats video implementations and native advertising solutions ensuring these formats drive engagement while maintaining platform performance and user satisfaction.
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.