Description
The International Expansion team launches the full suite of Amazon Advertising products in new countries, invests in long-term automation to scale international launch velocity, and delivers custom features to accelerate growth in international locales. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will be responsible for collecting business and system requirements needed to launch Advertising products in new countries and distill those down to technical milestones. You will drive complex, multi-team projects that span the entire Advertising organization from ideation through to delivery, partnering closely with business stakeholders and technology leaders. You will leverage your technical expertise to accelerate engineering teams, look around corners to mitigate risk, and promote technical innovation. You will own communication across all levels of senior leadership on strategy, prioritization, and results.
We're looking for a TPM who is passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrates a high degree of product ownership, and wants to have fun while making history. The ideal TPM is a creative, demonstrated leader with strong analytical abilities and an expeditious drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
Drive International expansion of the Amazon Advertising business
Translate business requirements into technical specifications for the engineers
Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet timelines
Drive long-term investments on behalf of customers and engineers that set the team up for future success
Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for long-term scale and maintainability
Capture, share and leverage your best practice knowledge across a broad group of engineers
Create content such as white papers and other written deliverables
Basic Qualifications
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
Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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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.