What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Technical Program Manager, Amazon Payments Services position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Payments Services manages payments for all Amazon customers worldwide, and the incredible pace of innovation and customer impact never slows down. From enabling Amazon to expand internationally into new markets to enabling new businesses such as Alexa, Payments Services is at the heart of Amazon’s vision to be Earth’s most customer centric. At the core of Payments Services is customer trust. As we store multi-billion payment instruments on behalf of our customers and manage multi-billion dollar transaction volumes, we do so with industry-leading security practices.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. TPM in this role, you will collaborate closely with a team of software development managers, product managers and engineers to deliver new solutions into production. You will be responsible for creating the roadmap and project plan, creating metrics to measure velocity and progress, reporting to leadership, and coordinating and aligning stakeholders to a single vision. You will help make important important tradeoff decisions with product, science, and engineering. You will help us move quickly, look for simplifications and identify blockers early. You’ll own and improve the mechanisms we use to track goals, status, and business metrics across teams.
The ideal candidate can help bring clarity to ambiguous problems and enjoys transparency. We are a team that believes in sharing (and caring), and we believe we can accomplish so much more when we work together. You should have experience working in the software development lifecycle, ideally taking a product from 0 to 1 at Amazon. You should be comfortable communicating with leaders at the Director and VP level on a regular basis.
From a business and technical perspective, these are the expectations -
- Have a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services
- Understand how to design scalable software
- Be conversant with internet technologies
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical partners
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Has relentlessly high standards, is never satisfied with the status quo
- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to earn trust of others
- Results orientation
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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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.
Salary : $133,900 - $231,400
