Technical Program Manager, Amazon
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in technical product or program management
- Experience in software development
- Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Desirable
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
What the job involves
- Amazon ICON is looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our Dublin team
- Our team is responsible for hosting Amazon’s websites, which includes all of Amazon’s global marketplaces and partner portals as well as consumer experiences like Kindle, Alexa, Amazon Video, and the Mobile Application
- We’re a diverse international team made up of engineers, developers, administrators and managers
- Furthermore, we’re obsessed with operational quality, security, reducing cost, increasing availability and keeping the largest eCommerce infrastructure purring
- This role is unique to Amazon and offers excellent career opportunities
- Our worldwide fleets serve 10s of billions of customer requests per day through Amazon retail websites, Kindle, Amazon instant video, Amazon subsidiaries and more, giving you a unique scale of impact opportunity for your career
- You will need to demonstrate great passion for customers, agility, and adaptability in the face of fast changing business requirements and innovation across the company
- As a Technical Program Manager you will require technical vision, ability to dive deep into problems and excellent verbal and written communication skills
- You will have a strong understanding of internet technologies and protocols and a passion for building and operating technology systems at scale
- You will have a strong understanding of build and deployment pipelines as well as operations monitoring pipelines
- You will have proven abilities in leading multi-discipline engineering teams without direct authority
- You will demonstrate creativity in identifying, scoping and building innovative tools to solve our unique operations problems
- We own connecting Amazon worldwide websites and other experiences such as Kindle, Amazon Video, and Alexa to the internet, as well as ensuring the highest level of availability, security and privacy of the web services that power the experience we deliver to our customers worldwide
- We abstract, centralize and optimize the infrastructure management from individual service teams and operate 120+ Tier-1 services on behalf of teams in the Worldwide Amazon Stores org. We own the routing layer built on top of AWS technology that connects traffic at low latency and protects the web services against malicious robot and DDoS attacks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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