Senior Technical Program Manager
Posted on: 14 Apr 2021
Santa Cruz, CA
Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Are you looking to lead radical innovation in a multi-billion dollar global business, creating value for millions of customers? The fast-growing Seller Mobile team is reinventing the way more than 2 Million Sellers manage their businesses. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the cross-organizational execution of a number of exciting initiatives on our roadmap, helping Sellers act faster on the most critical parts of their businesses.
This Sr. Technical Program Manager role is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the Amazon Seller app releases and driving large-scope, complex, and cross-functional technical programs with global impact.
A successful candidate will have strong customer experience intuition, business and product management background combined with solid understanding of technical concepts. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.
This role owns the overall mobile app release strategy, scaling process, and execution to deliver new features, platform tools, and framework enhancements while maintaining the operational health of software. This role manages mobile onboarding process from end to end, driving operational efficiency, multi-year engineering excellence initiative, and program delivery. In addition, this role will influence across large set of stakeholders and be a key contributor to the long-term business and technology strategy.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
5+ years of technical program management experience
7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Demonstrated business judgment as well as ability to think creatively, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize
An exceptionally well-organized approach to your work. An ability to understand what's important, what's urgent, where dependencies exist, and how to tangibly move projects forward in a large organization
Strong oral and written communication skills, a bias for action and a proven ability to influence others in and across teams and organizations
Experience working with engineering teams to define, scope and prioritize product requirements
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experienced with scrum framework and Agile methodologies in software development
Experienced with mobile app release process
MBA preferred
Amazon.com
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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IndustryInformation Technology
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No. of Employees647,500
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Website
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Jobs Posted12764
