The Ordering department in Amazon forms the backbone of multiple commerce experiences like Classic Retail, Amazon Fresh, Alexa Shopping, Prime Now etc. along with powering Physical Stores like Amazon Books, Amazon 4 Stars, Amazon Go, etc. to name a few.
A Principal Technical Program Manager will require working across business needs of 100s of such businesses to distill the requirements needed to inform the next generation commerce ecosystem. The massively distributed system today runs at millions of TPS and being the primary source for accepting and processing customer orders requires an uptime of 99.999%.
The role will require constant balance between long term product vision along with addressing immediate needs, driving an incremental approach that is metrics and data driven. It will require communicating effectively with leaders across Director and VP level on a monthly basis while ensuring that the teams are aligned and stakeholders are aware of key performance indicators.
The role is a hybrid of having deep technical knowledge and being instinctive on how commerce should function as a business along with a deep technical understanding of how to make these changes happen via a distributed system. It will require building and governing a federated system that works technically on a point-of-sale device, on mobile, on desktop, in low-bandwidth areas, for low-latency, high throughput, processing orders with few items or unlimited items.
Key Performance Areas
– You will define governance policies, and actively manage compliance to these policies through tools, campaigns and analytics for large scale federated services with 1000s of clients.
– You will partner with management to define strategy and build road maps for the programs you own.
– You will be responsible for overall coordination, quality and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run.
– You will mentor and help develop other Program and Product Managers
– Throughout, you will internalize Amazon’s Leadership Principles, and live those into everyday practices to guide your programs to success.
About the team
Ordering’s vision is “To make it possible for any customer to purchase any good or service, from any location, any time, in any quantity, from any merchant, using any possible payment mechanism, under any possible set of contract terms, and have it fulfilled in any possible manner, as long as it does not violate regulatory or marketplace policies.”
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
– 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
– 7+ years of technical 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
– Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $141,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/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.