Technical Program Manager Job in Amazon

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Are you interested in driving highly visible initiatives for Amazons Prime program? Do you enjoy the challenge and ownership that come from managing complex, cross-functional and cross-organizational projects? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment solving complex technical problems and delivering innovative solutions?

The Prime Team is seeking an exceptional Sr Technical Program Manager for a challenging, high-value, high-visibility program. As a Sr TPM for Amazon Prime, you will be responsible for delivering projects with huge strategic impact. You will work with various software and business teams around the company to identify and drive innovative solutions that achieve business goals. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the next generation of Amazon Prime! This role will give you an opportunity to work with many different teams and learn a range of new systems, leveraging the deep collection of technologies throughout the company and extending them to allow us to boldly go where no retail system has gone before.

Amazon Prime is the membership program that gives customers a premium experience on Amazon. Over 150 million paid members across 18 countries around the world enjoy the many benefits of Amazon Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment from Amazon. In the US, these benefits include free two-day shipping benefits on millions of items, free unlimited streaming on thousands of videos, Prime Photos as well as access to the Kindle Owners Lending Library. The program is experiencing explosive growth and as a result our team is looking to expand its top-notch management talent. If you want to work on one of Amazon's most impactful program and are passionate about implementing solutions that impact millions of people every day, we want to hear from you!
This role requires working closely with the product management team and key software development teams across the company to define strategy and requirements, and lead development design through delivery and subsequent operation. This position requires regular communication with executive management on status, risks and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential. You should have experience managing multiple complete product development cycles, possesses superior analytical abilities and expert product judgment. A successful candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and great project management and communication skills.

Responsibilities:
Be the interface between the product owners and the development team, thoroughly understanding the product, helping define user stories, and driving the evaluation of appropriate technical solutions to meet the business requirements.
Engage with Payment service providers, Amazon Payment solution teams, Accountants, Financial analysts, business analysts and tax managers to define, implement and validate the payment, tax and accounting requirements.
Own engagement with the partners, work to decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical leadership.
Help make the right feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising customer experience and business relevance
Engage with many other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals
Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of relevant engineering experience
2+ years of technical program management experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Superior analytical abilities across business, finance and technology
A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects.
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Good understanding of digital payment solutions and its challenges
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
Proven experience in innovative business practices that have been game changing for business evolution.
Experience leading complex projects involving multiple global teams
Must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically
Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize
Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position
Comfort interacting with a broad set of business stakeholders and leading meetings both over the phone and in person
Qualified candidates have extensive experience defining programs and implementing them across a team focused on delivering projects that meet rapidly evolving business needs
Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders