Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Customer Service

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · CA, ON +1 · Software Development

Sr. Technical Program Manager for Amazon Customer Service, focusing on leveraging conversational AI and ML for self-service and automation. The role involves scoping, planning, and executing complex, cross-functional projects, partnering with engineering teams, and managing project lifecycles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the scoping, planning, and execution for challenging and high impact projects.
  2. Partnering with and influencing the direction of multiple engineering teams within and outside of CS to deliver complex/cross-functional projects.
  3. Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
  4. Solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions.
  5. Hiring and leading teams of software development engineers to design and deploy in an agile manner.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • strong technical expertise
  • hands-on project management skills
  • demonstrable tech chops
  • solve complex technical problems
  • design robust, scalable solutions