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Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), Items and Offers Platform - Offers
🌎Seattle, Washington, USA
1 month ago
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Job Description

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Our systems are at the core of Amazon.com websites because we serve up the product and offering catalog containing billions of records. We are the authority for product information and critical purchasing data, such as availability and price. Our systems respond to billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal clients that power the website and other customer interfaces, such as Kindle and Amazon Alexa. We get more traffic than most other Amazon systems and most requests are handled within a few milliseconds. Our team owns software running in a distributed, high performance, high availability NoSQL data storage system with an inbuilt micro-service computing environment that calculates and vends product and offering information.

In this role, you will participate in all parts of the software development process, from collaborating with customers to understand their needs, to design, to executing that design in a scalable and extensible way. You will have the opportunity to solve hard problems and help the business grow. Successful candidates are passionate about translating high-level, ambiguous business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses.


Key job responsibilities
You must be able to:
- Interact with Project Sponsors, other Technical Program Managers, and multiple development teams to define and deliver complex cross-functional projects.

- Drive large scale projects spanning teams across Amazon from inception to conclusion, create the roadmap, define user stories, research appropriate technical solutions.

- Clearly communicate roadmap, plans and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders.

- Work closely with the software development team on delivering high-quality solutions, and provide guidance regarding architecture, design, and priorities.

- Engage with other teams across Amazon to evangelize the team and your projects, to build relationships and help identify existing technologies that can be leveraged to meet your team’s goals.

- Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs versus constraints.

- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.