• We're looking for a talented Technical Program Manager to join our team of product managers and engineers to conceive, design, and develop innovative Ad experiences for our device customers
• The right candidate will possess strong technical skills and have demonstrated experience in collaborating with teams who own medium to large distributed services
• You must be able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities
• You must be able to communicate up, down, and out to both technical and business audiences
• You must be able to successfully drive, architect and scale services based on the program vision, anticipate bottlenecks, and balance business needs against technical constraints
• You must take complex challenges and break them down into manageable projects, then work with technologists to prototype and engineering to deliver them in a successful and timely manner
• You must be able to de-risk situations by taking a pragmatic approach and be willing to take calculated bets
• This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and verbal) with senior management on status, risks and strategy
• Qualified candidates must have experience collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features; as well as analyze the cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Desirable

• Ad products that help Advertisers reach their desired audiences and also delight our end users who use Amazon devices and bring them relevant Ads
• In this role you would be interfacing with your immediate multi-discipline team, building relationships with partners across Amazon (ex. Advertising core stack, FireTV, Prime Video, Alexa, and other Devices) and communicate across diverse areas of the org (e.g., legal, finance)
• You own your projects end-to-end and help build and refine exciting new Ad experiences for Amazon
• As a Pr. Technical Program Manager on this team, you will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple programs across this multiple initiatives
• You will manage the lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, documentation and measurement) of software teams that are delivering for the programs you manage
• You will work alongside Program Managers, Product Managers, and engineers
• You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility
• This role is on Device Ads and Personalization (DAPP) team, which is under Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM)
• This team has a vision to create innovative Ad experiences on Amazon Devices, providing customers better convenience and more selection