Technical Program Manager Amazon
New York, NY

Job Description

The Amazon Sponsored Ads is one the fastest growing Amazon businesses. Our organization is building the world's most customer centric advertising platform to provide Amazon.com shoppers with useful, timely, and relevant product and brand recommendations. The Sponsored Brands team is focused on helping brands advertise on Amazon.com by understanding shopper intent and helping shoppers discover brands they'll love. Our team has it all: big data, machine learning, high scale / low latency systems, and high-visibility / high-impact business. Come help Amazon.com build the world's most customer centric advertising!

As a TPM on the team, you will independently lead this broad cross-organization global effort from the early stages through release. You will be responsible for influencing organization roadmap priorities, system owners, and technical direction. You will represent difficult trade-off decisions and solutions clearly to leaders up to 3 levels above to help them understand decisions and options. You will leverage your technical knowledge to drive technical trade-off decisions. You will be able to identify when a technical solution requires additional technical guidance. You will manage cross-functional and cross-organization communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed, and needs are aligned. You will guide the technical direction and decisions to deliver a solution that meets Amazon high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence. You will amplify your impact by educating TPMs around you on program management best-practices and will be actively involved mentoring more junior team members.

The ideal candidate is someone that wants to have a huge impact building systems to help make shopping on Amazon.com even easier. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.