What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Program Manager III, Amazon Exports and Expansions position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
This Amazon Exports & Expansions team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to help expand Amazon into new parts of the world. You'll contribute to the tech vision, strategy, and road map of one of the most important initiatives across Amazon. You will enable innovative technology solutions that directly improve customer and seller experience around the world, impacting a multi-billion dollar business.
In this role you will:
- Enable solutions that reach millions of new customers all over the world, providing them with a world class shopping experience in their local language, payments, and currencies.
- Work across all tiers leveraging Service-Oriented Architecture, mobile platforms, user experience, analytics and data mining.
- Drive customer experience technology for supporting customers all over the world.
- Work closely with the business to define the expansion strategy and figure out innovative solutions to help this thriving business continue to its exponential growth
This team helps Amazon Customers across the world gain access to the benefits of buying through Amazon. Customers are able to buy products in local marketplaces their language, using local currency and payment methods. We enable customers to purchase products sourced from local and international vendors and sellers, delivered quickly to their door and at competitive prices.
Key job responsibilities
As a Technical Program Manager on the team, you will have end to end ownership of cross-functional projects, including roadmap planning, resource planning, stakeholder management, and project execution. You will work closely with engineering, business, and operations teams to ensure smooth coordination, execution, and launch of new features for Amazon's Australia and Singapore retail websites.
At the heart of this role is delivery. You will be hands-on in driving the delivery of critical business initiatives, managing all aspects of the project such as project planning, risk management, communication, and implementation planning. You will be a technical problem solver on the team, identifying innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolving issues and constraints through negotiation, diplomacy, and sound judgment. You will be responsible for making project decisions and achieving tactical goals while retaining a strategic focus.
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
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