Sr. Technical Program Manager, Selection Monitoring

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team is driving the growth of the world’s largest catalog by applying ML and IR techniques to identify and add products. The role focuses on understanding customer pain points, defining roadmaps, and delivering high-quality products through close collaboration with engineering and cross-functional teams.

You will work with software developers, stakeholders across Amazon, and senior leadership to balance business needs with technical constraints and to communicate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 7+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.

Responsibilities

• Understand your customers and their pain points; work with your users and stakeholders to find solutions that help them enable their scenarios.
• Drive execution of cross-team and cross-org projects from inception to launch, formulate product vision and strategy, define and prioritize road maps, define user stories.
• Work closely with software development teams on defining, designing and delivering high-quality products; provide feedback on architecture, design, and priorities.
• Engage with teams across Amazon to evangelize your team's products and build relationships.
• Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs vs. constraints
• Clearly communicate plan and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders

Skills

Technical product mgmt

Engineering collaboration

Software development

Cross-functional leadership

Release scheduling

Job description

Description

Amazon’s Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger by powering the World Product Catalog. Our systems process billions of products to algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon and programmatically add them to the Amazon catalog. We apply parallel processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms to evaluate products and brands in order to identify and prioritize products and brands we should add to Amazon’s catalog. Teams across Amazon worldwide consume our datasets and systems to improve: product information, search and discoverability, pricing, and delivery experience. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) systems to mine the web and automatically create structured entities from un-structure/semi-structured data. We constantly stretch the boundaries of large-scale distributed systems, Elastic Computing, Big Data, and SOA technologies to tackle challenges at Amazon’s global scale.
Come join us in our journey to make everything – and yes, we do mean *everything* – that anyone wants to buy, available on Amazon!
The ideal candidate will have excellent product management, program management, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. In addition, the ability to work backwards and think about the program from a customer perspective is crucial.

Key job responsibilities

• Understand your customers and their pain points; work with your users and stakeholders to find solutions that help them enable their scenarios.
• Drive execution of cross-team and cross-org projects from inception to launch, formulate product vision and strategy, define and prioritize road maps, define user stories.
• Work closely with software development teams on defining, designing and delivering high-quality products; provide feedback on architecture, design, and priorities.
• Engage with teams across Amazon to evangelize your team's products and build relationships.
• Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs vs. constraints
• Clearly communicate plan and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 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

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 building and evaluating system-level technical design

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

Company

- Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A10476595