Senior Design Program Manager, Amazon Ads

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 142,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Ads Creative Experiences Design team seeks a Senior Design Program Manager who will drive strategic design programs across UX Design, Design Technology, and Research. You will partner with Design leadership and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Research to turn strategy into action, manage dependencies, and enable faster, aligned delivery.

You will lead workshops, build scalable planning mechanisms, and strengthen organizational effectiveness while ensuring product commitments

Qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience.
• Ability to translate business and customer needs into effective solutions.
• Experience analyzing large datasets to drive continuous improvements.
• Experience managing UX programs with Design and Research.
• Experience building scalable, repeatable design programs and processes.
• Familiarity with agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Design leadership to translate strategy into clear programs, roadmaps, milestones, and resource plans.
• Program manage design-led initiatives alongside ongoing product delivery.
• Drive design execution with visibility into priorities, dependencies, risks, and milestones.
• Coordinate design, product, engineering, research and cross-functional teams to resolve obstacles.
• Create lightweight, scalable planning, prioritization, and review mechanisms.
• Facilitate workshops and offsites to turn strategy into decisions and actions.
• Foster transparency and accountability to strengthen design org effectiveness.

Skills

Design experience

Needs analysis

Data analysis

UX program management

Scalable processes

Job description

The Amazon Ads Creative Experiences Design team is seeking a self-motivated, ownership-minded, and nimble Senior Design Program Manager to be a force multiplier for our UX Design, Design Technology, and Research organization. We push the boundaries of interactive advertising, creating premium experiences across Amazon Store, Prime Video, Alexa, Fire TV, Groceries, and third-party publishers-connecting hundreds of millions of customers with brands across every category.

In this role, you will partner closely with Design leadership and collaborate across Design, Research, Product, Engineering, and Program Management to turn strategy into action. You will drive planning and prioritization across a complex portfolio, lead strategic design programs, manage dependencies and risks, and create mechanisms that help teams move faster and stay connected. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring both product commitments and design-led initiatives make meaningful progress, while helping our organization operate effectively at scale. Come help us build the future of advertising!

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with Design leadership to operationalize strategy, translating priorities into clear programs, roadmaps, milestones, resource plans, and operating mechanisms.
• Program manage strategic, design-led initiatives ensuring they make meaningful progress alongside ongoing product delivery.
• Drive design execution across the portfolio, creating visibility into priorities, dependencies, capacity, risks, and milestones while empowering designers to own their work and timelines.
• Connect Design, Product, Engineering, Research, and cross‑functional teams, ensuring dependencies are understood, decisions happen at the right level, and obstacles are proactively identified and resolved.
• Build and continuously improve lightweight, scalable mechanisms for planning, prioritization, design reviews, leadership reviews, communication, and cross‑team collaboration.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, working sessions, and team offsites with Design leadership, turning strategic discussions into clear decisions, ownership, and actionable outcomes.
• Strengthen design organizational effectiveness and culture by increasing transparency, connecting related work, defining measures of success, and fostering collaboration and shared accountability across the team.

About the team

The Amazon Ads Creative Experiences Design team brings together UX Design, Design Technology, and Research to shape the future of advertising experiences for advertisers and customers. We work across teams and Amazon surfaces to connect experiences end to end, combining design craft, customer insight, and technology to solve complex problems and turn ambitious ideas into scalable experiences. We value collaboration, experimentation, high standards, and giving people the ownership to make a meaningful impact.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience
• Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
• Experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements
• Experience managing UX programs and working with Design and Research
• Experience building scalable programs and repeatable scalable processes, levering various tools and methods to create scale and efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (agile to waterfall)
• Experience working and contributing to project playbooks, building schedules, managing issues/risks, establishing communication plans and stakeholder management
• Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 - 142,400.00 - 192,600.00 USD annually