PDP PMO Lead for Devices — Process Excellence

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a PMO Lead to own the end-to-end Product Development Process (PDP) for Amazon Devices Hardware, ensuring milestones, gates, and tools drive on-time, high-quality programs across hundreds of engineers.

You will collaborate with System TPMs, engineering leads, operations, and finance to evolve the PDP, publish updates to the wiki, and advocate for scalable process changes that support hardware and software development across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 7+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.
• Experience leading process improvement, systems development, and project management.
• Experience managing and maintaining program management tools, templates, or governance frameworks used by large engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Product Development Process (PDP) for Amazon Devices Hardware, including phase definitions, gate criteria, milestone templates, approver matrices, and associated tools - ensuring the process remains current, scalable, and aligned with how programs actually execute.
• Identify, scope, and lead strategic process improvement initiatives from proposal through implementation, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, operations, finance, and product management to drive adoption and measure impact.
• Maintain and evolve the suite of PDP tools and templates - including milestone documents (Product Assessment, Business Requirements Document, Development Commit, xVT Readiness Reviews, Announce Risk Review, OK2Ship), checklists, and the Milestone Manager - to reduce friction and enable program teams to move with speed and confidence.
• Serve as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert for PDP across the Hardware organization, providing guidance to System TPMs and functional leads on process application, change management, and escalation paths.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on process changes, communicating updates clearly to stakeholders at all levels and ensuring the PDP Confluence space reflects the current state of the process at all times.

Skills

Program management experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Process improvement

Technical product management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS or equivalent

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Jama

Job description

Amazon is seeking a PMO Lead to own the end-to-end Product Development Process (PDP) for Amazon Devices Hardware, ensuring milestones, gates, and tools drive on-time, high-quality programs across hundreds of engineers.

You will collaborate with System TPMs, engineering leads, operations, and finance to evolve the PDP, publish updates to the wiki, and advocate for scalable process changes that support hardware and software development across the organization.