Senior Tech Program Manager

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising’s Ads AI Core Infra team seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive high-impact, cross-functional programs across worldwide advertising. You will partner with engineering, product, and data teams to balance business needs against technical constraints and own strategic delivery.

You will anticipate bottlenecks, manage stakeholders, and translate complex requirements into actionable roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional programs with measurable impact.
• Strong communication across business, product, science and engineering teams.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver complex features as a technical liaison between teams.
• Create high-level designs and architectural diagrams for implementing technical solutions and scalable architectures.
• Monitor metrics and program health, anticipate blockers, manage escalations, and mitigate risks.
• Lead technical reviews, build consensus on vision, and provide context for long-term technology choices.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical depth

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Job description

Description

Advertisers spend tens of billions of dollars annually leveraging Amazon Advertising to grow their businesses. We support advertisers by building industry-standard advertiser controls (demand) with an open data plane serving an ever-growing number of ad serving channels (supply). Our services support all Sponsored Ads programs and all Display Ad programs—you can think of our team as the brain and nervous system of all advertisements within Amazon. As advertisers and advertising tools rapidly adopt AI agents to plan, optimize, and achieve marketing goals, Amazon Ads is building multiple agentic applications to lead this transformation. Our services are building common infrastructure such as MCP tools and real-time data services to accelerate agent development.

The Ads AI Core Infra (ACI) team develops essential services that underpin all advertising programs such as Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display. We build core services for Service Availability, Advertiser Registration and Access Management, Ad Catalog Service, Data Ingestion/Publishing, and Analytics.

Do you want to drive high-impact programs that improve the resilience of advertising systems across multiple VP organizations? We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager who will collaborate with teams across Worldwide Advertising to solve critical business problems, navigate ambiguity, and manage stakeholder expectations. In this role, you will leverage your exceptional program management skills and technical depth to deliver high visibility initiatives for our Ads AI Core Infrastructure team. As a senior technical program owner, you will be accountable for the overall strategy and driving teams to deliver results. You'll partner with engineering teams to determine priorities, manage diverse requests from worldwide teams, and balance business needs against technical constraints. Your ability to anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and coordinate large, multi-functional projects on time will be crucial to our success.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact, driving crisp execution based on customer impact and business opportunity
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver complex features while serving as a technical liaison between business stakeholders and internal product, science, and engineering teams
• Create high-level designs and architectural diagrams for implementing technical solutions, partnering with engineers to ensure architectures scale to match the business case
• Monitor metrics and program health, anticipate and clear blockers, manage escalations, and proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
• Lead technical team reviews, build consensus around a vision, and provide context for business and technology choices with a long-term perspective