Senior Technical Program Manager

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · San Francisco, CA · Project/Program/Product Management--Technical

Senior Technical Program Manager at Twitch (Amazon) responsible for programs spanning platform modernization, developer tooling, and enterprise systems. The role involves deep technical engagement, driving trade-off decisions, and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing products and internal platforms. Experience with AI/ML systems, agentic architectures, or applied machine learning programs is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and deliver large, cross-functional programs spanning platform modernization, developer tooling, and enterprise systems, managing the full lifecycle from concept through launch, coordinating across multiple engineering teams, and driving measurable business outcomes.
  2. Engage deeply with technical architecture and drive trade-off decisions, identifying dependencies, evaluating engineering approaches, and influencing priorities to ensure platforms evolve to meet the needs of both internal teams and external customers.
  3. Drive alignment across organizations operating at different speeds and priorities, navigating ambiguity, building operating models and stakeholder structures that bring clarity, and ensuring teams across engineering, product, and business functions execute together toward shared goals.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
  • 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager (TPM) or a related technical leadership role
  • Deployed user-facing technologies at a high-quality bar, with demonstrated track record of meeting user needs and resolving business tradeoffs
  • Knowledge of engineering architecture and ability to identify dependencies and technical risks
  • Experience managing stakeholders, and cross-organizational dependencies
  • Ability to facilitate and align roadmaps, and manage disparate tasks with varying priorities
  • Experience defining cross-organizational/company-wide strategy including driving alignment across engineering leadership
  • Experience mentoring and developing fellow team members

Nice to have

  • Experience or familiarity with the AWS ecosystem of services and streaming, real-time analytics, or online entertainment
  • Experience with AI/ML systems, agentic architectures, or applied machine learning programs
  • BA/BS in a technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience

What the JD emphasized

  • complex cross-functional problems where no one hands you a playbook