Senior TPM — In-Vehicle AI & OEM Partnerships

Amazon

Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 171,000 - 231,400

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Amazon Smart Vehicles is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive feature launches and OEM partner engagements from concept through production. You will own end-to-end delivery across the ACA platform, coordinate across software, QA, AI/ML, and platform teams, and lead executive reviews to ensure on-time, high-quality releases.

You will manage OEM onboarding, integration milestones, and risk mitigation while aligning with product, engineering, and BD to meet launch criteria.

Qualifications

8+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
6+ years of technical product or program management experience.
Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
6+ 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.

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end program execution for feature launches on the Amazon Custom Assistant platform — from requirements through delivery, validation, and production release.
Own the OEM engagement lifecycle: onboarding, integration planning, milestone tracking, issue resolution, and launch readiness across partner programs.
Build and maintain program schedules across multiple workstreams, identifying critical path, dependencies, and resource constraints; proactively elevate risks with mitigation options.
Coordinate cross-functional teams (Software, QA, AI/ML, Platform, UX, Product) to deliver against committed timelines and quality bar.
Lead technical program reviews with engineering leadership and OEM partners — translating complex technical status into clear, actionable narratives.
Define and drive launch readiness criteria, go/no‑go decisions, and release processes for OEM‑facing feature deliveries.
Partner with Product Management on partner roadmap alignment, scope negotiations, and trade‑off decisions.
Establish and improve program mechanisms — sprint planning, dependency tracking, retrospectives, operational metrics — to increase delivery velocity and predictability.
Manage cross‑timezone coordination across US, India, and partner teams (EU/India) to ensure seamless execution.
Contribute to organizational best practices by documenting playbooks, onboarding frameworks, and repeatable processes for scaling to new OEM partners.