Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon

Alexa Audio

$133.9-231.4k

Alexa
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Sunnyvale, CA

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Be an early applicant

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Be an early applicant

$133.9-231.4k

Alexa
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Sunnyvale, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • You are a person that has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast
  • You exert technical influence on the core platform teams , external dev teams and partners, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your knowledge and experience
  • 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

Desirable

  • 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 KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

What the job involves

  • Alexa Audio is dedicated to ensuring that Alexa, the assistant service used by millions of customers every day, is able to provide seamless integration with Audio providers across the world
  • As the Senior TPM for Alexa Audio, you'll help shape the technical, product, and execution vision for one of Amazon's fastest-growing businesses
  • Work across a diverse set of stakeholder organizations to prioritize and manage large development projects
  • Partner with external companies to bring Alexa to their devices
  • Connect the dots across many sub-teams to ensure consistent execution
  • Track and report data, and manage organizational mechanisms, to help stakeholders understand the business
  • Report on team status across several executive communication channels
  • You will be a technical lead on our cross-functional projects
  • You will ensure quality of architecture and design of systems
  • Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
  • . Align project deliverables with target Quality and functionality and on time release
  • In this role, you will be part of a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader
  • You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning
  • You will build software that will materially improve people’s lives

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Insights

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

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.

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