Amazon Web Services (AWS) Private Pricing team provides our sellers with a deal management and analysis platform that enables and accelerates private pricing deals with our most important customers. Our business is constantly evolving and we build software that drives that evolution. We are looking for Senior Technical Program Manager (Sr TPM) with strong program management skills to lead our organization and stakeholders as we build the next iteration of our system. Come join a team at the beginning of a product life cycle and help define the way AWS does business with its key customers.
The Sr TPM will manage implementation of the strategy, requiring work across organizations with multiple stakeholders, product managers, and software engineers. The role will require driving and delivering multiple projects simultaneously. The Sr TPM will provide project leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate project risks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints for the projects and the program.
Key job responsibilities
– Lead our planning process, to make sure we are working on the highest priority projects.
– Continuously evaluate and streamline existing processes
– Partner with stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to manage our engineering programs
– Manage cross-functional programs (from inception to delivery)
– Own project status communication. Consistently impart clear and concise summaries for the projects you own to your leadership/management team
A day in the life
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
About the team
The greater team is a diverse, smart, and hardworking team. Among many things, we are parents, musicians, and athletes who also enjoy time outside of the office. We’ve worked hard to create a trusting, collaborative, and supportive atmosphere. We’re looking for a program manager to grow a positive, enthusiastic, and driven environment.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
– 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
– 3+ years of software development experience
– 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
– Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
– Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
– Experience defining KPI’s/SLA’s used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.