Technical Program Manager - Author Services Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you passionate about books and authors? Do you get excited by working in a high-growth, innovative, and fast-paced environment? Amazon Kindle has reinvented reading. It is changing the way people consume digital media and continues to be one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon. You will have the opportunity to impact customers worldwide. Our team has a simple goal: Bring together writers and readers, give them tools, and watch them succeed.

The TPM role requires excellent leadership skills, strong technical expertise and hands-on project management skills. The right candidate will be adept at writing technical specifications, owning program schedules from design to release, partnering effectively with other teams within and outside of Amazon, and managing client launches. You should be equally comfortable digging into business requirements and product planning as well as drilling into technical architecture and design.

Please contact us if this sounds like you:

* You are extremely technical and have significant experience designing scalable web applications, with a penchant for elegant and maintainable systems.
* You excel at working in agile environment and collaborating with some of the smartest people in the industry.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience), and 1-2 years of industry experience.