What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Technical Program Manager, Air Science & Tech position at Amazon?
Description
Love aviation and technology? Want to help deliver business-critical tools and solutions to Amazon Air? Then come soar with Air Science & Tech! Amazon Air (operating global air cargo flight and ground operations) needs YOU to lead the integration across fulfillment, ground, and air-transportation operations to run hundreds of flights per day supporting same-day shipping. Amazon Air is big and growing, and enabling this requires investment in science and technology to scale the operation.
Amazon Air Science and Technology (AST) team is looking for an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager who thrives in dealing with ambiguity and able to independently drive efforts, building end-to-end planning, execution, and decision support systems for the Amazon Air program. This is a leadership position that requires both initiative and a great amount of technical program management depth within and across organizations to help build new and leverage existing fulfillment and transportation technologies to achieve our product vision.
This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks, and change control, owning complex, org-wide initiatives, thought leadership, a high degree of independence, ownership, bias for action, and making "right a lot" decisions. Additionally, this position requires the ability to think big and facilitate long-term research that contributes to a multi-year product roadmap.
Strong candidates will be able to understand and influence the development of large-scale, distributed services to drive solutions across multiple teams, have excellent communication skills, a passion for building simple, elegant, and architecturally-sound systems, and drive results.
Key job responsibilities
The Air Science & Tech team (AST) is the dedicated technology team for Amazon Air. You will work alongside PMs, PgMs, SDMs, SDEs, and Scientists to help build Amazon's air cargo business.
AST is part of the Amazon Transportation Services Tech organization and works with other ATS Tech teams (Sort Tech, Transportation Core Tech) to deliver integrated solutions for Operations.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2959883
Love aviation and technology? Want to help deliver business-critical tools and solutions to Amazon Air? Then come soar with Air Science & Tech! Amazon Air (operating global air cargo flight and ground operations) needs YOU to lead the integration across fulfillment, ground, and air-transportation operations to run hundreds of flights per day supporting same-day shipping. Amazon Air is big and growing, and enabling this requires investment in science and technology to scale the operation.
Amazon Air Science and Technology (AST) team is looking for an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager who thrives in dealing with ambiguity and able to independently drive efforts, building end-to-end planning, execution, and decision support systems for the Amazon Air program. This is a leadership position that requires both initiative and a great amount of technical program management depth within and across organizations to help build new and leverage existing fulfillment and transportation technologies to achieve our product vision.
This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks, and change control, owning complex, org-wide initiatives, thought leadership, a high degree of independence, ownership, bias for action, and making "right a lot" decisions. Additionally, this position requires the ability to think big and facilitate long-term research that contributes to a multi-year product roadmap.
Strong candidates will be able to understand and influence the development of large-scale, distributed services to drive solutions across multiple teams, have excellent communication skills, a passion for building simple, elegant, and architecturally-sound systems, and drive results.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Air Operations stakeholders to define, modify, and improve business-critical processes for automation and optimization
- Own and drive accurate portfolio-wide status of projects via Weekly Business Reviews
- Identify, mitigate, and resolve technical challenges across multiple solutions and services
- Create and execute Go-To-Market strategies in collaboration with Product Management, partner teams, and Network Planning and Capacity Management
- Drive enterprise-wide adoption through evangelism and change management efforts
- Lead business-case analysis and commercial solution evaluations which lead to data-driven build vs. buy decisions
- Perform duties as the business focal to manage and maintain relationships with our Air partners and external vendors
The Air Science & Tech team (AST) is the dedicated technology team for Amazon Air. You will work alongside PMs, PgMs, SDMs, SDEs, and Scientists to help build Amazon's air cargo business.
AST is part of the Amazon Transportation Services Tech organization and works with other ATS Tech teams (Sort Tech, Transportation Core Tech) to deliver integrated solutions for Operations.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of technical product or program management experience
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams 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
- 5 years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2959883
Salary : $133,900 - $231,400
