Principal Technical Program Manager, Ad Measurements Science

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 195,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Ads is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager in New York to lead high-ambiguity, high-impact AI initiatives across product, science, and engineering. You will own planning, execution, and delivery of multi-team programs spanning VP organizations, with focus on Analyst Agent and Ads Customer Journey Model.

You will work at the intersection of advertising technology, ML, and distributed systems to solve complex problems, mentor TPMs, and present plans in executive reviews.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience designing or architecting scalable systems.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program management for strategic advertising technology initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap alignment across engineering, product, science, and business teams.
• Lead cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges in ad serving and measurement.
• Establish governance, metrics, and reporting to ensure VP-level visibility.
• Identify and mitigate risks across large-scale distributed systems handling billions of ad requests daily.
• Influence architecture decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders across Amazon Ads, AWS, and Retail.
• Drive operational excellence through processes, automation, and best practices.
• Mentor and develop other TPMs across the organization.

Skills

Engineering collaboration

Program management experience

Software development

System design/architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmap strategy

Job description

The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of advertiser's ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We also own the science solutions for AI tools that unlock new insights and automate high-effort customer workflows, such as custom query and report generation based on natural language user requests. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager on the team, you will be at the forefront of innovation, driving program execution on some of the most high ambiguity, high impact initiatives within Ads. You will work across Product, Science, and Engineering to drive AI initiatives spanning VP organizations, including 1) our Analyst Agent which will work alongside other ads agents to transform the performance reporting and insights experience for advertisers, and 2) our Ads Customer Journey Model, which seeks to revolutionize our measurement, planning, and optimization experiences through foundational customer journey understanding. You will own the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale technical programs that span multiple teams, product organizations, and business stakeholders. You'll work at the intersection of advertising technology, machine learning, and distributed systems to solve ambiguous problems that shape the future of digital advertising.

Key job responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program management for strategic advertising technology initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap alignment across engineering, product, science, and business teams
• Lead cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges in areas such as ad serving, campaign management, measurement, and optimization
• Establish program governance, metrics, and reporting mechanisms to ensure visibility and accountability at the VP level
• Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks across large-scale distributed systems serving billions of ad requests daily
• Partner with engineering leaders to influence architecture decisions and ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
• Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across Amazon Ads, AWS, and Retail organizations
• Drive operational excellence through process improvements, automation, and best practices
• Mentor and develop other TPMs across the organization
• Represent Amazon Ads technical programs in executive-level reviews and planning sessions

A day in the life

You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the advertising organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.

Team video https://advertising.amazon.com/help/G4LNN5YWHP6SM9TJ

About the team

We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry to build scalable modeling and software solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 194,700.00 - 263,400.00 USD annually