Amazon · 2 hours ago
Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Photos
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$159K/yr - $275K/yr
10+ years expAmazon is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager for Amazon Photos to define and deliver important programs with cross-organizational impact. The role involves managing complex technology initiatives, driving architectural changes, and mentoring team members to ensure long-term program success.
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Responsibilities
Define and deliver programs with broad cross-organizational, cross-business, or significant technology impact across multiple VP organizations
Drive architecture and/or organization changes that enable teams to work independently and achieve significant efficiency improvements
Manage significantly complex cross-functional technology initiatives, remediating critical and/or endemic problems
Apply deep technical knowledge to improve technologies at massive scale (content processing, ML model serving, foundational services)
Partner effectively with all levels of leadership, including VPs; manage escalations and represent complex decisions clearly to leaders up to 3 levels above
Effectively force multiply by creating and optimizing critical mechanisms that ensure long-term program success
Assess risk, drive clarity, and foster shared understanding by asking intelligent questions about proposed solutions
Identify gaps/opportunities between architectures and organizations (services, workflows, tooling) across the Amazon domains
Align teams and orgs toward simple, coherent approaches; create/optimize cross-org structures and mechanisms
Mentor team members, perform TPM promotion assessments, and participate in talent reviews
Qualification
Required
7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
10+ years of technical product or 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
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
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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