Senior Design Program Manager, Amazon Ads

The Amazon Ads Creative Experiences Design team is seeking a self-motivated ownership-minded and nimble Senior Design Program Manager to be a force multiplier for our UX Design Design Technology and Research organization. We push the boundaries of interactive advertising creating premium experiences across Amazon Store Prime Video Alexa Fire TV Groceries and third-party publishersconnecting hundreds of millions of customers with brands across every category.

In this role you will partner closely with Design leadership and collaborate across Design Research Product Engineering and Program Management to turn strategy into action. You will drive planning and prioritization across a complex portfolio lead strategic design programs manage dependencies and risks and create mechanisms that help teams move faster and stay connected. Youll play a critical role in ensuring both product commitments and design-led initiatives make meaningful progress while helping our organization operate effectively at scale. Come help us build the future of advertising!

Key job responsibilities
Partner with Design leadership to operationalize strategy translating priorities into clear programs roadmaps milestones resource plans and operating mechanisms.
Program manage strategic design-led initiatives ensuring they make meaningful progress alongside ongoing product delivery.
Drive design execution across the portfolio creating visibility into priorities dependencies capacity risks and milestones while empowering designers to own their work and timelines.
Connect Design Product Engineering Research and cross-functional teams ensuring dependencies are understood decisions happen at the right level and obstacles are proactively identified and resolved.
Build and continuously improve lightweight scalable mechanisms for planning prioritization design reviews leadership reviews communication and cross-team collaboration.
Plan and facilitate workshops working sessions and team offsites with Design leadership turning strategic discussions into clear decisions ownership and actionable outcomes.
Strengthen design organizational effectiveness and culture by increasing transparency connecting related work defining measures of success and fostering collaboration and shared accountability across the team.

About the team
The Amazon Ads Creative Experiences Design team brings together UX Design Design Technology and Research to shape the future of advertising experiences for advertisers and customers. We work across teams and Amazon surfaces to connect experiences end to end combining design craft customer insight and technology to solve complex problems and turn ambitious ideas into scalable experiences. We value collaboration experimentation high standards and giving people the ownership to make a meaningful impact.

- 6 years of design experience
- Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
- Experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements
- Experience managing UX programs and working with Design and Research
- Experience building scalable programs and repeatable scalable processes levering various tools and methods to create scale and efficiency

- Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (agile to waterfall)
- Experience working and contributing to project playbooks building schedules managing issues/risks establishing communication plans and stakeholder management
- Experience dealing well with ambiguity prioritizing needs and delivering measurable results in an agile environment

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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 - 142400.00 - 192600.00 USD annually