Principal TPM: Global Launch & Scale

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead the Leo Commerce Org initiative in Redmond, WA. You will define and deliver programs with broad cross-organizational and cross-business impact, shaping how Leo Commerce scales from launch to global operations.

The role requires clarifying undefined business and architectural direction and solving problems that may not be fully known upfront. Successful candidates will have extensive experience in technical product or program

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Experience owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects.
• Experience optimizing for short-term execution while planning for long-term technical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end strategy for significantly complex programs in spaces where business and architectural direction is undefined.
• Decompose endemic problems into straightforward solutions; eliminate repetitive cross-team effort through architecture or organizational changes.
• Build consensus across VP-level stakeholders; influence technology direction and resource allocation with data-driven judgment.
• Manage executive-level escalations; represent complex trade-offs clearly to leaders up to 3 levels above.
• Create durable mechanisms that ensure programs succeed long-term without your direct involvement.
• Steer teams away from prior technology failure patterns.
• Amplify impact through mentoring, promotion assessments, and TPM community development.
• Bring deep technical knowledge of commerce/distributed systems and apply it to invent, simplify, and evolve technologies.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Software development

Engineering teams

Roadmap strategy

Job description

Amazon is hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead the Leo Commerce Org initiative in Redmond, WA. You will define and deliver programs with broad cross-organizational and cross-business impact, shaping how Leo Commerce scales from launch to global operations.

The role requires clarifying undefined business and architectural direction and solving problems that may not be fully known upfront. Successful candidates will have extensive experience in technical product or program