Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.
Photos is looking for a Sr Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead our Infrastructure programs.
UNIQUE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THIS ROLE
As Amazon Photos’ lead TPM for Infrastructure, you will work with our engineering teams, leadership, and security experts within Amazon to ensure we maintain and raise the bar regarding the infrastructure of Amazon Photos applications, services, and customer content. Your role will require working with audit teams to identify gaps and opportunities and to align with engineering teams on the right course of action to architect, plan and implement improvements and new programs which you will help identify. You will work with Product Management, UX and our organization’s senior leadership to make sure we are building the best customer experience using the best-in-class infrastructure. In becoming the organization’s expert in this important area, you will lead the Think Big process, making sure we are looking around corners and planning to make the right investments.
WHO YOU ARE
You love inventing on behalf of customers and collaborating with creators of many disciplines to deliver architectures and secure systems which enable a trustworthy, high quality customer experience to be delivered to millions of people. You have passion for building an efficient and effective technical infrastructure. You are looking for a place to apply your technical and program management expertise, filling a critical role alongside mission-driven engineering, science, QA, product, marketing and UX teams. You know how to improve the quality and speed of delivery by gathering high quality requirements, driving toward the right architectural outcomes, and by identifying, tracking and communicating the path to delivery within and across the organization. Always looking for ways for us to improve, you identify and create mechanisms which will help us raise the bar on the next release.
YOUR SKILLS
As a Sr. TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs against technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 5+ years of technical product or program management 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
– Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
– Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
– Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience defining KPI’s/SLA’s used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
– Experience designing and developing robust and scalable software and services in multimedia areas
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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.