Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Excited about advertising technology? Love Books? Join the Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM) team at Amazon focused on building the next generation of advertising products for the Books category. Amazon is investing in technology to unleash superior funnel insights with the purpose of driving return on investment for all advertisers, while powering a better shopping experience with more relevant ads for Amazon retail customers. We are doing this with innovative advertising experiences, both free and paid products, all backed by Amazon's scale and commitment to customer experience.
We're looking for entrepreneurial, innovative individuals who thrive on solving tough problems. The successful candidate will build upon core program management successes and develop breadth across a range of problem domains.
Key job responsibilities
* Translate customer’s business requirements into engineering deliverables and project milestones.
* Ascertain the technical requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
* Participate in complex architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment
* Capture, share and leverage your best practice knowledge across a broad group of engineers throughout all subsidiaries
* Partner as a technical liaison between business owners, product managers, and technical teams
About the team
APM Books Ads team exists to launch, accelerate, and differentiate the advertising business for the publishing category. We own the end-to-end advertising experience for readers, shoppers, publishers, and authors, including ad supply, ad creative, ad serving, and the user experience for books populations. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing fast to pursue a range of new opportunities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development 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 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
- Familiarity with data science, modelling and A/B testing concepts
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