Sr TPM, Safety & Compliance, Last Mile Delivery Automation

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead regulatory functional safety compliance and road-readiness programs for Amazons autonomous delivery vehicle initiative. This role will own the integrated program required to safely develop test and deploy autonomous vehicles on public roads working across vehicle engineering autonomy software systems engineering functional safety legal regulatory compliance public policy operations and commercial teams. The Senior TPM will also manage complex dependencies with external autonomy providers vehicle manufacturers suppliers and other technology partners ensuring that safety requirements regulatory obligations technical evidence and operational controls remain aligned across organizational boundaries. The successful candidate will bring strong systems thinking and technical program leadership translate safety and regulatory requirements into executable plans drive closure of cross-functional risks and gaps and establish the mechanisms used to determine when vehicles software releases operating locations and operational processes are ready for public-road testing and deployment.

Key job responsibilities
Regulatory Safety and Compliance Program: Own the integrated roadmap for functional safety regulatory compliance and public-road readiness across vehicle development testing and deployment. Translate requirements into technical deliverables milestones owners dependencies and approval criteria.

Functional Safety and Technical Evidence: Partner with functional safety systems engineering and validation teams to coordinate hazard and risk assessments safety requirements verification and validation activities and the technical evidence required to support the safety case and demonstrate compliance.

Road Readiness: Establish and drive readiness criteria for vehicles software releases operating locations and operational processes. Coordinate closed-course and public-road testing permits operator readiness incident-response processes and required safety and regulatory approvals.

Cross-Functional and Partner Execution: Align engineering functional safety legal regulatory compliance public policy operations and commercial teams. Manage shared plans and complex dependencies with autonomy providers vehicle manufacturers suppliers and other external partners.

Risk Change and Governance: Identify and drive closure of safety regulatory technical and operational risks. Establish governance mechanisms to assess how hardware software operating-domain supplier and operational changes affect the safety case compliance posture and readiness to operate.

Program Reporting and Scalability: Provide senior leaders with clear readiness assessments risk summaries and decision points. Build repeatable processes and governance mechanisms that support expansion across vehicle platforms deployment locations and regulatory jurisdictions.

- 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 multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA SANTA CLARA - 171000.00 - 231400.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 148700.00 - 201200.00 USD annually