Sr. Technical Program Manager, Mobile Shopping Amazon
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Mobile Shopping (mShop) is one of the fastest growing strategic businesses within Amazon. Our scale is billions of dollars and millions of users. Our team is responsible for creating the best shopping experience for customers wherever they go on their favorite Android and iOS devices. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software. We constantly improve our technical foundation and customer experience. As a Technical Program Manager on the mShop team, you'll have huge impact on how customers, even friends and family, engage with Amazon.

We are looking for seasoned Technical Program Managers who are excited about leading cross-org initiatives to make the App more personalized, contextually aware, and adaptive for customers We would like a person who can lead a team of engineers through day to scrum, architectural decisions, sprint and program planning. Communication with external partners is key. The Mobile Shopping team is building the next generation mobile platform to power experiences in Amazon Shopping apps. The ideal candidate will get to lead design and architect the platform with other rock star engineers on the team.

About the hiring team:

We created the App Experiences (AppX) team to explore new ways for Amazon customers to complete common shopping tasks quicker, browse more efficiently, and discover new features. Even as the 10th most-installed app, we're still learning how to make the right decisions for customers and how to educate them about new features. We build new iOS & Android features addressing customer frustrations and innovate on core shopping functions like the personalized navigation menu, location awareness, and browsing; identifying core shopping experiences that are not mobile optimized, and fix them. We spend a lot of time thinking about what mobile shopping means and how we do it correctly with strong partnerships between dev, product, and design competencies. Our toughest problems are crafting world-class UX experiences and every pixel matters to our customers. We are innovators at heart, and mobile App customer experience is king to us.

Responsibilities

* Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters
* Simultaneously own the delivery of multiple cross team projects across various technological areas.
* Drive development practices and process across multiple teams
* Work closely with various disciplines - engineering, marketing, product management, UX research and QA to streamline project delivery.
* Contribute to team strategy and define yearly and long-term goals and plans