Job Description
DESCRIPTION
The International Expansion team launches the full suite of Amazon Advertising products in new countries, invests in long-term automation to scale international launch velocity, and delivers custom features to accelerate growth in international locales. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will be responsible for collecting business and system requirements needed to launch Advertising products in new countries and distill those down to technical milestones. You will drive complex, multi-team projects that span the entire Advertising organization from ideation through to delivery, partnering closely with business stakeholders and technology leaders. You will leverage your technical expertise to accelerate engineering teams, look around corners to mitigate risk, and promote technical innovation. You will own communication across all levels of senior leadership on strategy, prioritization, and results.
We're looking for a TPM who is passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrates a high degree of product ownership, and wants to have fun while making history. The ideal TPM is a creative, demonstrated leader with strong analytical abilities and an expeditious drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive International expansion of the Amazon Advertising business
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications for the engineers
- Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
- Drive long-term investments on behalf of customers and engineers that set the team up for future success
- Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for long-term scale and maintainability
- Capture, share and leverage your best practice knowledge across a broad group of engineers
- Create content such as white papers and other written deliverables
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical product or program management 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
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
Job Tags
Full time,