Principal Technical Program Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Project/Program/Product Management--Technical

The Principal Technical Program Manager will lead the development and strategy for Sponsored Products and Brands at Amazon Ads, leveraging generative AI to revolutionize advertising experiences. This role involves managing large-scale global products, defining roadmaps, and driving cross-functional initiatives to enhance ad creation, optimization, and performance analysis. The focus is on building next-generation brand advertising products and platforms, impacting millions of creators and viewers daily, and delivering significant revenue and growth for Amazon.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will play a pivotal role in managing projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements.
  2. You will tackle challenging problems and coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams to ensure customer and business goals are met.
  3. You will interface across product, science, and engineering teams within the advertising and retail organizations.
  4. You will drive mechanisms that allow the team to move quickly and deliver strong results.
  5. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy and efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
  • 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 5+ years of software development 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 an online advertising role and have familiarity with advertising products and ad serving technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • managing large-scale global products
  • developing visions
  • defining strategies
  • building programs and features from the ground up
  • defining, developing, and driving the roadmap
  • leading new product ideation and development
  • manage the lifecycle of complex cross-functional technology initiatives
  • balancing both tactical and strategic work
  • unblocking teams
  • increasing delivery speed
  • negotiating resources and priorities

Other signals

  • Generative AI technologies
  • AI product development
  • AI technologies
  • Gen AI solutions