Principal Program Manager - Tech, Alexa Native Ads

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · NY +1 · Project/Program/Product Management--Technical

This role is for a Principal Program Manager at Amazon, focusing on driving AI-powered advertising solutions across Amazon's ecosystem. The candidate will manage complex, cross-organizational programs from concept to launch, defining technical requirements, API contracts, and workback plans, while aligning stakeholders across various departments like engineering, product, operations, legal, sales, UX, and marketing. The role emphasizes delivering measurable business impact and innovating against challenging timelines within the consumer domain, specifically for advertising products that leverage generative AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with engineering, product, operations, legal, UX, sales, and marketing teams to define requirements and deliver sophisticated ad products that leverage generative AI capabilities
  2. Manage complex, cross-organizational programs from concept through successful launch, including defining technical requirements, establishing API contracts, and creating detailed workback plans
  3. Lead progress tracking against key milestones, facilitate technical conversations, and ensure alignment across all stakeholder groups
  4. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues at multiple organizational levels, communicating potential impacts and solutions to relevant teams
  5. Build and maintain relationships across the matrix organization, influencing stakeholders at all levels to drive collaborative problem-solving and timely decision-making

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
  • 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
  • Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Nice to have

  • 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
  • Experience in software development
  • Bachelor's degree

What the JD emphasized

  • technical leader
  • complex, cross-organizational programs
  • senior stakeholders across multiple organizations