Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Product Catalog, Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Our mission is to build and manage the foundational software of the Earth’s Biggest Catalog. Amazon’s Product Catalog is the substrate of the WW Stores business with broad impact on listing experience, shopping experience, physical stores, as well as end-to-end fulfillment operations. We offer data modeling and solution architecture for everything Amazon sells, every physical product, digital game, apps, prime video, alexa skills, home services, and powers entire businesses like Whole Foods, Amazon Pharmacy, Supply Chain by Amazon. Through these services, we enable millions of sellers and vendors to manage billions of products across Amazon's online marketplaces and physical stores world-wide in real-time. Leveraging highly scalable microservices, innovative new data models, unique big data solutions, and advanced machine learning algorithms, we produce a world-class, localized shopping experience for customers globally in their preferred language.
There is nothing else like it on the planet!
The catalog team is looking for a highly technical Senior Technical Program Manager to drive developer productivity, architecture simplification, and operational efficiency across our team. In this role, you will work closely with engineering managers, developers, and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for improving processes, tools, infrastructure, and system architectures. You will be responsible for implementing initiatives that streamline development workflows, enhance collaboration, simplify complex architectures, and optimize operational processes.
As a TPM, you are empowered to:
- Interact directly with executive sponsors to define problems and deliver large scale cross-functional projects spanning many teams.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to understand the team's challenges, pain points, and areas for optimization in the development lifecycle, system architectures, and operational processes
- Lead efforts to simplify complex system architectures and reduce technical debt, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability
- Work closely with engineers and engineering leaders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and ensure that initiatives are aligned with their workflows and preferences
- Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs versus constraints.
- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
- Evangelize best practices, share learnings, and promote a culture of continuous improvement, architectural simplicity, and operational excellence within the engineering organization.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.