Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon

• Sr TPM need to not only excel in operating at a strategic level but also need to understand when to dive deep to keep the project on track
• Along with that, Sr TPMs need to clearly and concisely communicate, both verbally and in writing, with senior management on status, risks and required mitigations to maintain project commitments
• This role is a good fit for someone creative, who has strong customer focus and product sense, combined with an established track record in consumer technology products, connected devices, and a real passion for TV and mobile video entertainment
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical product or program management 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

Desirable

• The Fire TV devices team is looking for a Sr TPM to help with launching FireTV devices. In this role, you’ll work across many groups and get broad exposure to the entire business
• From software engineering to sales, product marketing to customer service, from hardware engineering to operating system, and the myriad teams throughout Amazon that are writing code for user experiences on the devices
• We sit at the center of the product and have incredible breadth of impact and opportunity. At the same time, in the midst of this big organization you will get the opportunity to have true ownership and effect real change to the product and the business
• Specifically, Sr TPM must set the bar on the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
• Sr TPMs are expected to support the team in making appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams
• Massive cross-group coordination
• Ability to deeply understand platform level technologies
• Hard-core data analysis and reporting
• Influence technical architecture/design decisions, advocate for awesome user experiences, put in place useful processes, rip out useless processes, get in the code when necessary, and always be inventing a better way to do things