Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Customer Journeys

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Customer Journeys

Are you passionate about inventing experiences that help customers discover ways to incorporate Generative AI in their daily lives? Do you want to work in a fast-paced environment surrounded by the smartest and most customer-obsessed product, engineering, marketing, and data science leaders on the planet, where the future is still to be defined? Alexa Customer Journeys team is looking for a Sr. Technical Program Manager in the mission to make Alexa an expert on itself, providing useful information and experiences to customers seeking to take advantage of all of their devices’ features and capabilities.

You will be working on systems and solutions with Large Language Model (LLM) and other generative technologies, to design customer-facing experiences with Alexa, and building solutions to make Alexa an expert in itself. We are looking for an experienced, customer-obsessed Technical Program Manager who is able to collaborate effectively with a technical team and be responsible for key aspects of the software customer experience. The role is inherently cross-functional: you will work closely with a high-energy team of software engineers, product managers, user experience designers as well as customer service leads.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple, complex cross-functional initiatives simultaneously from initiation through delivery. Involves anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management and communicating status broadly across all levels
• Make tradeoffs while balancing the business needs with technical constraints
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to define near-term and long-term product roadmap
• Create mechanisms to drive timely, accurate, and comprehensive project execution. Create clarity, eliminate obstacles and drive issue resolution to ensure deliverables & timelines are met. Drive continuous improvement efforts to ensure delivery mechanisms get better over time
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering team

Basic Qualifications

• 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

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

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