Sr. Technical Program Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands

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

This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager on the Amazon Ads Sponsored Products and Brands team. The primary focus is on managing projects related to generative AI technologies in advertising, from inception to deployment and improvement. The role involves coordinating across product, science, and engineering teams, driving efficient project execution, and recommending technical approaches. While the team works with GenAI and the role involves using GenAI tools, the core responsibilities are in program management and product delivery, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. managing projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements
  2. coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams to ensure customer and business goals are met
  3. interface across product, science, and engineering teams within the advertising and retail organizations
  4. drive mechanisms that allow the team to move quickly and deliver strong results
  5. recommend alternative technical approaches and partner with product, science, and engineering teams to meet timelines

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of technical product or program management 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
  • Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
  • Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
  • Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
  • Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development

What the JD emphasized

  • managing projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements
  • coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams
  • interface across product, science, and engineering teams
  • drive mechanisms that allow the team to move quickly and deliver strong results
  • recommend alternative technical approaches and partner with product, science, and engineering teams to meet timelines
  • actively role model the use of GenAI to make the team more efficient
  • building and evaluating system-level technical design
  • developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
  • Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development