Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads AI Core Infrastructure

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 164,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Ads is seeking a highly skilled Technical Program Manager to lead strategic programs for AI infrastructure core services that accelerate agentic AI development. This role requires deep technical knowledge in AI/ML systems, AWS technologies, and distributed infrastructure to enable product teams to ship agents quickly.

You will drive roadmaps, onboard agent builders, and influence senior leadership while ensuring scalable, production-grade reliability for both advertiser-facing and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of TPM experience with software engineering teams.
• Experience designing and evaluating system-level architectures.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and release planning.
• Experience delivering product and technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end delivery of large-scale agentic AI programs.
• Influence stakeholders and align priorities across teams.
• Collaborate on onboarding and adoption of agentic core infra.
• Define KPIs and report progress to leadership.
• Coordinate cross-team communication for reliable delivery.

Skills

PM experience

Software development

TPM leadership

System design

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmaps delivery

Tools

AWS technologies

Distributed systems

Job description

At Amazon Ads, we’re re-imagining the advertising landscape through advanced generative AI technologies and AI agents, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands online. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

The Amazon Advertising team is seeking a highly skilled Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead strategic programs for Amazon Ads' AI infrastructure core services that accelerate agentic AI development. This role requires deep technical knowledge in AI/ML systems, AWS technologies, distributed infrastructure, and agentic frameworks, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams building foundational services that enable product teams to ship agents in weeks instead of months. As a TPM, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing agentic AI core infra product roadmap, driving agent builder adoption through seamless onboarding experiences, influencing technical and business stakeholders across Ads organizations, and ensuring the core services scales to support multi-agent workflows, stateful runtime, and production-grade reliability for advertiser- facing and internal agents.

Key job responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Drive the end-to-end delivery of large-scale agentic AI programs, ensuring alignment with Amazon Advertising’s long-term business and technical goals.
• Stakeholder Influence: Partner with leaders, stakeholders, and internal agent builder teams to align on priorities, drive consensus, and deliver impactful agentic core infra solutions that scale globally.
• Solution Architecture: Collaborate with engineering, product from agent and skill builder teams to onboard and utilize agentic core infra to accelerate their roadmaps.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Define KPIs and metrics to measure program success, identify areas for improvement, and provide transparent, actionable updates to leadership through detailed reporting and insights.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the key connection point between engineering, business teams, ensuring alignment, effective communication, and seamless execution.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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

USA, NY, New York - 163,600.00 - 221,300.00 USD annually