What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies AUSTIN position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Have you ever wondered how Amazon powers the world's largest and most advanced fulfillment operation? Operating at Amazon's scale requires innovative systems to keep our people safe while delivering products to customers efficiently.
We're seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our team. As the single-threaded leader, you'll own programs delivering complex projects across multiple Director/VP organizations to proactively ensure the safety of our customers, warehouse associates, and delivery partners. You should thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess strong software development knowledge, have passion for technology, and desire to solve high-impact business problems. The ideal candidate will excel at communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, influence at all levels, demonstrate strong program management skills, have experience leading large-scale programs, and maintain a well-rounded technical background.
You'll take complex, ambiguous business problems and break them down into scalable technical approaches, write functional specifications, and deliver solutions. We need someone equally comfortable discovering business requirements and discussing architecture and design with development teams. Success in this role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to manage competing priorities. You should excel at anticipating bottlenecks and balancing business needs with technical constraints to drive projects forward efficiently.
Key job responsibilities
As Principal TPM, you will manage complex technical programs involving multiple business and technical organizations. You will contribute innovative ideas, refine our strategic direction, and raise the bar for program management in our organization. Your responsibilities will span from fostering strong partnerships with cross-functional teams across teams to envisioning and ensuring effective roadmap planning and execution..
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.
Safety & Compliance
AFT’s Safety & Compliance team owns an innovative, data-driven information management solution that identifies, tracks, and mitigates safety & compliance concerns for business lines across Amazon.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10 years of engineering experience
- 7 years of technical product or program management experience
- 5 years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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