Sr. System Technical Program Manager, Amazon Devices - Hardware

Amazon Lab126; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 231,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Lab126 in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Technical Program Manager (System TPM) to lead hardware engineering teams from concept to mass production, owning the end-to-end schedule and mitigation strategies. You will define strategy with product management and executives, drive cross-functional development, and manage costs while keeping senior leadership informed.

You will also collaborate with remote teams, travel to Asia for prototype builds, and own key milestones in a waterfall-style hardware

Qualifications

• 5+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• 3+ years technical product or program management.
• 3+ years project management including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years hardware design or development in consumer electronics.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and requirements with product management and executives.
• Deep dive on technical issues and lead teams to solutions within constraints.
• Own cross functional development schedules.
• Lead development on new technology from design to mass production.
• Collaborate with remote teams and travel to Asia for prototype builds.
• Regularly report status and risks to senior management.
• Drive cost-down efforts and prioritize resources for milestones.

Skills

Engineering collaboration

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science

Job description

Description

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced amazing devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Hearables, Wearables, and Smart Eyewear. What will you help us create?

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced amazing devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Hearables, Wearables, and Smart Eyewear. What will you help us create? As a System TPM, you lead the hardware engineering teams in developing products from concept to mass production. You own the end-to-end schedule, report on engineering issues, define mitigation strategies, lead cost down efforts, and keep senior management up-to-date on progress. You are the single threaded owner for ensuring end to end delivery of a device.

Key job responsibilities

As a Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced cross‑disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. In this role, you will:

• Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
• Deep dive on key technical issues and lead teams to find solutions within program constraints
• Own cross functional development schedules
• Lead cross functional development on new technology from design through mass production, working across all hardware disciplines
• Work with remote teams across the world and travel to Asia to complete prototype builds to test and validate our product designs.
• Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and to drive key decision making
• Manage resource prioritization, drive cost down efforts, look around corners to prevent common development pitfalls.
• Lead key product development milestones following a waterfall style development within hardware.

About The Team

We are a team of hardware TPMs with varying engineering backgrounds. We thrive at problem solving, driving leadership decisions, looking around corners, and leading teams to bring devices to market!

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years hardware design or development experience, consumer electronics preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 5+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience, or a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non‑tech teams experience

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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• 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
• parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 171,000.00 - 231,400.00 USD annually

Company: Amazon.com Services LLC