Sr. Technical Program Manager, ShipTech
DESCRIPTION
If you are looking for an opportunity to solve complex technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart, passionate team members, this might be the role for you.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with Internal & External Stakeholders to understand the business processes and workflows.
- Develop functional specifications/requirements documents.
- Deal with ambiguity to discover the true requirements underlying new feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
- Work with software and operations teams to launch projects and provide ongoing technical support
- Track and review program updates with stakeholders and leaders
- Work within and outside Amazon to encourage a fast and smooth adoption of the available services.
- Be the primary conduit for gathering requirements for enhancements; develop demos, sample and technical collateral as required.
- Work as the product owner and define roadmap in association with the stakeholders
- Drive simplification and efficiencies in engineering and/or complex architectures to unblock innovation and/or speed of delivery within program area
- Manage multiple projects in program area or large challenging projects to meet business and/or organization goals
- Facilitate technical trade-offs between short term team needs and long term business needs
About the team
Amazon delivers millions of packages to customers worldwide, while providing world class customer experience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Amazon businesses continue to experience a rapid expansion into new markets and geographies. Our Transportation Technology division builds complex platforms that manage the lifecycle of a package. We are at the heart of Amazon's worldwide transportation operations and systemically integrate with supply chain to improve customer experience and reduce operational costs.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- Solid foundation in service-oriented technologies - understands service inter-dependencies and drives towards technical solutions for multi-tiered systems.
- Experience in communicating with business teams, development teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
- Highly organized, ability to complete a high volume of tasks and projects with little to no guidance within tight deadlines.
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