Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Ads
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you're interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place.
As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you'll need to be a pragmatic strategist that can translate business needs into workable technology solutions that scale both technologically and operationally. You will partner with business experts, scientists, and engineers by leveraging new trends in Information retrieval, low latency and high throughput distributed systems, deep learning inference systems, and fault-tolerant application hosting frameworks. Successful candidates will have an established track record of delivery of complex software systems, excellent project management skills, keen technical aptitude, solid communication skills, and be driven to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
1) Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects
2) Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps, dependency identifications, and resourcing plans
3) Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building resilient systems that power great customer experiences
About the team
Creative Infrastructure develops scalable solutions that help both enterprise and emerging advertisers generate high-quality, brand-consistent creative assets, optimize their campaign performance, and manage their creative workflows efficiently through Amazon Ads.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in technical product or program management
- Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
- Experience as a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and effectively influence across cross-functional teams
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
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