Senior Technical Program Manager, ShipTech (Fulfillment & Operations)

Amazon Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex logistics and transportation initiatives from conception to delivery.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage timelines and dependencies, and remove obstacles to accelerate progress while ensuring scope alignment. The role requires strong technical understanding, program management skills, and a proven track record of delivering high-impact initiatives on schedule.

Qualifications

• Technical program management experience coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into technical specs and roadmaps.
• Strong communication with stakeholders and leadership, delivering on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal & external stakeholders to understand business processes and workflows.
• Develop functional specifications/requirements documents.
• Lead engineering efforts to meet timelines and constraints.
• Launch projects with software and operations teams and provide ongoing support.
• Track and review program updates with stakeholders and leaders.
• Encourage fast adoption of services across teams and functions.
• Gather requirements for enhancements and develop demos and technical collateral.
• Act as product owner and define roadmap with stakeholders.
• Drive simplification and efficiencies in engineering and architectures.
• Manage multiple projects to meet business goals.
• Facilitate trade-offs between short-term needs and long-term strategy.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Engineering collaboration

Roadmap ownership

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager, ShipTech

We're seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex logistics and transportation projects from conception to delivery. You'll coordinate cross-functional teams, manage timelines and dependencies, track progress against key metrics, and remove obstacles to accelerate project completion. The ideal candidate combines technical understanding with strong program management skills, excellent communication abilities, and proven success delivering high-impact initiatives on schedule and within scope.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with Internal & External Stakeholders to understand the business processes and workflows.
• Develop functional specifications/requirements documents.
• Deal with ambiguity to discover the true requirements underlying new feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet constrained timelines.
• Work with software and operations teams to launch projects and provide ongoing technical support
• Track and review program updates with stakeholders and leaders
• Work within and outside Amazon to encourage a fast and smooth adoption of the available services.
• Be the primary conduit for gathering requirements for enhancements; develop demos, sample and technical collateral as required.
• Work as the product owner and define roadmap in association with the stakeholders
• Drive simplification and efficiencies in engineering and/or complex architectures to unblock innovation and/or speed of delivery within program area
• Manage multiple projects in program area or large challenging projects to meet business and/or organization goals
• Facilitate technical trade-offs between short term team needs and long term business needs

About the team

Amazon delivers millions of packages to customers worldwide, while providing world class customer experience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Amazon businesses continue to experience a rapid expansion into new markets and geographies. Our Transportation Technology division builds platforms that manage the lifecycle of a package. We are at the heart of Amazon's worldwide transportation operations and systemically integrate with supply chain to improve customer experience and reduce operational costs.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 4+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 4+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Exposure to software product architecture solutioning and design

Equal Opportunity Statement

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.