Sr Technical Program Manager, Featured Merchant Algorithm

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · IN, KA, Bengaluru · Project/Program/Product Management--Technical

Senior Technical Program Manager for the Featured Merchant Algorithm (FMA) team at Amazon, responsible for algorithms and services that power offer selection on the retail platform. The role involves leveraging AI/ML and big data to rank and select the best offer for customers, driving a significant portion of Amazon's product sales. The TPM will collaborate with stakeholders, engineers, PMs, and scientists to deliver new features, shape strategy, manage complex programs, and communicate progress to senior leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. managing multiple complex programs, ensuring alignment across technical and non-technical teams, and clearly communicating progress and outcomes to senior leadership.
  2. provide technical direction and business insight to shape strategy.
  3. collaborate with business stakeholders, engineers, product managers, and scientists to deliver new features and drive business launches that enhance the customer shopping experience.

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

  • 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience

Other signals

  • Leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data, we rank and select the best offer for the customer.
  • Our systems scale to handle an average of 5+ million requests per second across hundreds of millions of products and billions of offers.
  • We drive 99+% of product sales on the Amazon Store.