Senior Technical Program Manager

Socket.dev; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive the next generation of robotics and automation. You will coordinate cross-functional teams spanning AI, control systems, and mechanical design to deliver scalable, safe solutions at pace.

You will own program timing, risk, and dependencies, craft clear governance (RACI), and influence product and engineering decisions. This role requires deep PM practice, strong technical judgement, and the ability to align stakeholders to achieve

Qualifications

• 7+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of technical program management with software engineering teams.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• 3+ years of hands-on work in complex technology projects.
• Experience working in Software or Hardware.

Responsibilities

• Establish mechanism and cadence to manage the Amazon industrial robotic program.
• Managing escalations and misalignments when risks to delivering services arise; facilitate trade-off decisions.
• Work with teams to determine whether a decision is one-way or two-way door and manage stakeholder discussions.
• Ensuring role clarity and escalating when misalignments impact commitments.
• Developing and publishing a clear RACI to create transparency and drive ownership.
• Coordinating across internal teams to match alignment and enable deployment services.
• Exercising strong technical judgement to influence deployment methodology at program level.
• Advise on scalability requirements and protect for those needs in product/engineering discussions.

Skills

Software development experience

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Release planning

Hardware experience

Software or hardware experience

Tools

Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

Job description

We're seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine innovative AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world‑class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human‑robot interaction.

As the Senior Technical Program Manager, you seek to maximize decision‑making velocity by removing obstacles. While this role does not ultimately own headcount allocation, you are empowered to audit, evaluate, and elevate risk to the functional leader when headcount allocation or misaligned feature management is a driver of risk to schedule or the overall technical vision. Your role is critical to managing the total timing, overall risks/issues and dependencies, and scope changes to partner/dependent teams as required.

Key job responsibilities

• Establishing a mechanism and cadence to manage the Amazon industrial robotic program
• Managing escalations or misalignments when there are risks to delivering committed services with high quality; facilitating/leading trade‑off decisions with customers, stakeholders, and partner teams when there are conflicting priorities
• Working with teams to determine whether a decision is a one‑way or two‑way door. Managing necessary discussions with customer and partner teams to manage expectations, impacts, and risk, associated with said decision(s)
• Ensuring role clarity and escalating to functional leadership when there are misalignments that impact delivering on commitments
• Developing and publishing a clear RACI to create transparency with customer teams and to drive ownership and accountability
• Coordinating across internal teams to match alignment and enable deployment services
• Exercising strong technical judgement to influence and drive deployment methodology expertise to program level decisions
• Ability to understanding scalability requirements and determine feasibility of technology deployments at scale – acting as the voice back to Product and Engineering teams to protect for those requirements on emerging technical products

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
• 3+ years of hands‑on work in complex technology projects
• Experience working in Software or Hardware

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi‑million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience working in Scaled Agile Frameworks across HW/SW teams

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

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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), 401k matching, paid time off & parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, MA, N.Reading - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually