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Were seeking an exceptional technical leader who can drive transformational change across Amazons retail technology landscape. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, youll own complex, cross-organizational technical initiatives that have the potential to reshape how we approach e-commerce globally. Youll work autonomously at the intersection of technical innovation and business strategy, making high-stakes decisions that balance technical excellence with business impact. Your scope will extend beyond traditional program management to include identifying and solving intrinsically hard problems - whether thats architecting new technical mechanisms, eliminating systematic inefficiencies, or creating frameworks that enhance engineering productivity across organizations. Youll need to navigate significant ambiguity, work with minimal structure, and handle situations with considerable business or security risk. In this role, youll operate as a strategic leader with a deep technical vision with responsibilities ranging from driving architectural proposals to building consensus among VP-level stakeholders on technical strategy. Youll be trusted to make autonomous decisions that have far-reaching implications for Amazons technical landscape. Youll need to bring clarity to ambiguous situations, challenge assumptions, and illuminate potential pitfalls. Whether youre presenting to senior leadership about technical strategy or mentoring other TPMs on handling complex technical programs, your influence will help shape the technical direction. You will be leading cross-organizational alignment sessions, where youll build consensus on technical priorities that affect multiple teams and businesses. Your keen eye for simplification will be essential as you identify opportunities to streamline complex systems and thoughtfully deprecate components that no longer serve their purpose effectively. Youll set the bar for technical program management excellence, demonstrating sophisticated stakeholder management and rigorous risk assessment approaches that others can learn from. Your communication skills will be put to the test as you articulate complex technical decisions and trade-offs to leaders up to three levels above, always maintaining clarity and strategic focus. Beyond immediate program delivery, youll play a crucial role in developing the next generation of technical leaders. Through active participation in hiring, mentoring other TPMs, and contributing to the broader technical program management community, youll help shape best practices and raise the standard for technical program management across Amazon. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, influences across organizational boundaries, and is passionate about developing others. If youre excited about tackling intrinsically hard problems while helping shape the future of global commerce, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities Position Responsibilities: As a Technical Program Manager on the team: - You will have end to end ownership of cross-functional projects, including product definition, roadmap planning, resource planning and project execution. - Along with business initiatives, you will also lead the definition and execution of strategic projects aimed at reducing the total cost and time to market for launch. - You will work closely with product, business and operations leadership, including executive leadership at Amazon, to define the product and provide updates on the program. - At the heart of this role is delivery. You will be hands-on in driving the delivery of critical business initiatives, managing all aspects of the project such as project planning, requirements definition, risk management, communication, and implementation planning. - You will be a technical problem solver on the team, identifying innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolving issues and constraints through consensus and sound judgment. - You will be responsible for making project decisions, achieving tactical goals while retaining a strategic focus. - You will work closely with the development teams and play a leadership role in product architecture and design. - 3+ years of technical product or program management experience - 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience - 3+ years of software development experience - 3+ 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
