Sr. Technical Program Manager
DESCRIPTION
The India and Emerging Stores team builds products and services that solve unique customer needs in Amazon’s fastest growing marketplaces. We are a multi-billion dollar business with a huge potential to grow in a trillion dollar market. We are expanding our team to take it to the next level by building capabilities that can convert millions more of offline customers in emerging markets into online customers. Our Development team plays pivotal role in Amazon's success, with the mission to build tailor-made solutions for each category, by making it easy for customers to buy online.
The ideal candidate will be instrumental in execution of the product roadmap and will be actively involved in defining key product features that impact the business. You will work with Product and Category Managers at Amazon to define high level requirements and propose the solution designs. You will drive the execution excellence for critical programs that often involve dozens of platform tech teams and at times operations teams.
If you are passionate about executing complex technical programs and launch products with high quality and large business and customer impact, and relish ownership, join our team today!
The ideal candidate will be a leader, quick learner and be able to work independently. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical. The candidate will need to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities
· Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant top and bottom line impact
· Work with product managers in developing a strategy and roadmap to provide compelling capabilities for offering new services and enable new business opportunities.
· Work closely with principal and senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
· Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
· Project management - prioritization , planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
· Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ 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
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
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