Principal Technical Program Manager, Ad Measurements Science

The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement Ad Tech and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of advertisers ad spend including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We also own the science solutions for AI tools that unlock new insights and automate high-effort customer workflows such as custom query and report generation based on natural language user requests. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission including Generative AI classical ML Causal Inference Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager on the team you will be at the forefront of innovation driving program execution on some of the most high ambiguity high impact initiatives within Ads. You will work across Product Science and Engineering to drive AI initiatives spanning VP organizations including 1) our Analyst Agent which will work alongside other ads agents to transform the performance reporting and insights experience for advertisers and 2) our Ads Customer Journey Model which seeks to revolutionize our measurement planning and optimization experiences through foundational customer journey understanding. You will own the planning execution and delivery of large-scale technical programs that span multiple teams product organizations and business stakeholders. Youll work at the intersection of advertising technology machine learning and distributed systems to solve ambiguous problems that shape the future of digital advertising.

Key job responsibilities
- Own end-to-end program management for strategic advertising technology initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap alignment across engineering product science and business teams
- Lead cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges in areas such as ad serving campaign management measurement and optimization
- Establish program governance metrics and reporting mechanisms to ensure visibility and accountability at the VP level
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks across large-scale distributed systems serving billions of ad requests daily
- Partner with engineering leaders to influence architecture decisions and ensure scalability reliability and performance
- Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across Amazon Ads AWS and Retail organizations
- Drive operational excellence through process improvements automation and best practices
- Mentor and develop other TPMs across the organization
- Represent Amazon Ads technical programs in executive-level reviews and planning sessions

A day in the life
You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data generate business insights and opportunities design simulations and experiments and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs which requires collaboration with other Scientists Engineers and Product Managers across the advertising organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.
Team video the team
We are a team of scientists across Applied Research Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML NLP CV Gen AI and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers product managers sales leaders and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry to build scalable modeling and software solutions.

- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 7 years of technical product or program management experience
- 5 years of software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

- 8 years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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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 NY New York - 194700.00 - 263400.00 USD annually