Sr. Program Manager, RTI

The Recruiting Technology Integration (RTI) organization is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to define and drive the delivery of product features and process improvements that enable recruitment at scale. This role functions as the business owner and strategic lead for one or more features within the Talent Acquisition product ecosystem partnering closely with business customers and technical teams to translate operational needs into measurable solutions.
You are responsible for the planning execution and delivery of one or more features related to existing Talent Acquisition products. You may be embedded within a single team focused on the vision for their product features or you may work across teams. You know how to delight customers. Your work impacts a products customer experience (CX) feature usability success metrics (e.g. customer delight adoption quality ROI) team goals and may impact organization-level goals. You work independently seeking direction when needed.

What Were Looking For
Success in this role requires exceptional written and verbal communication skills strong influence and structured thinking. You must be able to craft compelling narratives for senior leadership facilitate complex discussions across diverse stakeholder groups and drive clarity across multiple product teams without direct authority. You should be comfortable operating in ambiguity translating complex business needs into actionable requirements maintaining momentum across interdependent workstreams and balancing competing priorities while keeping customer needs at the center of decision-making.
You are data-driven and understand a broad range of analytics techniques. Your verbal and written style is clear and concise you are able to transform raw thoughts into clear documentation and direction.


Key job responsibilities
Product Strategy & Customer Obsession
Act as the Voice of the Customer articulating recruiter candidate and stakeholder needs and translating them into clear business use cases prioritizing technical requirements with product managers and compelling narratives for senior leadership
Follow Amazon program management best-practices and work backward from the customer; participate in in-person customer research and user studies
Identify interesting use cases and clarify how they differ from existing solutions; provide stakeholders with insights into market opportunities
Refine business use cases and justifications to support prioritization decisions and demonstrate return on investment
Ensure usability studies include diverse customer sets and perspectives
Requirements & Delivery
Act as the programmatic business owner for Amazon Talent Acquisition product or process domains working with subject-matter experts to design ideal-state workflows identifying where to improve process and technology and standardizing processes to remove operational complexity and enable effective product outcomes
Translate customer pain-points and operational needs into clear functional requirements or UX designs in partnership with technical teams for strategic documentation (e.g. PR/FAQs BRD LRD)
Partner with UX designers to mockup and prototype features (when appropriate) confirming the design meets customer and business needs.
Ensure plans account for compliance requirements (e.g. legal financial data privacy/security) localization (e.g. language regional requirements) and accessibility (e.g. people with disabilities)
Stakeholder Communication & Alignment
Communicate clearly and directly with customers and end users ensuring the right information reaches the right people at the right time.
Establish and maintain mechanisms to keep all stakeholders aligned on expectations progress and delivery timelines proactively escalating impasses to maintain momentum
Identify Go to Market (GTM) stakeholders and clearly articulate feature scope timeline owners risks and mitigation steps
Accelerate progress by driving crisp and timely decisions clearing blockers (e.g. Path to Green) and escalating appropriately
Drive constructive discussions that help users designers developers legal compliance and sales teams reach consensus
Data & Performance
Be data-driven; understand the risk of acting on a vocal minority and apply a broad range of analytics techniques appropriately
Define monitor and build solutions that improve key success metrics (KPIs); identify and research anomalies in performance and escalate findings or drive resolution
Analyze product feature launches and perform post-mortem analysis on efficacy issues experienced and lessons learned
Develop and deliver operational reporting for updated processes to drive standards across multiple business segments at launch.
Change Management & Launch
Develop and execute change management strategies to support the successful rollout and sustained adoption of new features
Apply process improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma DMAIC or equivalent frameworks) to map current-state and future-state workflows identify inefficiencies and define scalable processes and mechanisms for recruiting or PXT-related operations
Develop and deliver Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) process documentation and operational readiness materials to ensure teams are equipped and prepared at launch
Oversee the launch process including deployment to Beta/Production; review features to ensure they meet acceptance criteria and escalating when needed if features do not meet user expectations
Manage post-launch support plans (e.g. triage issue/ticket management) run retrospectives and hold post-mortems
Drive adoption by helping users understand the reasons and benefits for product and process changes with documentation and resources and ensuring users have proper training to use new capabilities
People & Culture
Help recruit interview mentor and develop others



A day in the life
In this role you will work across technical programmatic and recruitment teams serving as the connective tissue between Talent Acquisition business needs and technical solution delivery. On a typical day you may partner with technical product managers to define business requirements and clarify use cases review designs and workflows to ensure business needs are fully represented analyze performance metrics to identify optimization opportunities and coordinate and action launch readiness efforts and change management.


- 5 years of program or project management experience
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience in understanding performance metrics and developing them to measure progress against key performance indicators
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority
- Experience working independently in ambiguous environments and managing multiple competing priorities

- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
- Experience in Recruiting HR or operations
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- Experience with change management strategies and driving adoption of new processes or product features
- Proficiency with data analytics tools and techniques to identify trends and anomalies in process and product performance
- Experience managing product or program launches end-to-end including beta deployments acceptance criteria reviews and post-launch retrospectives
- Exposure to compliance requirements such as data privacy accessibility and localization in product design
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) process documentation and operational readiness materials to support successful product or process launches
- Experience mentoring or developing junior team members

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 115600.00 - 160000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 115600.00 - 160000.00 USD annually