Senior Technical Program Manager - Sponsored Products and Brands

Description

Ever wonder what happens in the milliseconds between a customer scrolling and seeing a relevant ad? The Ad Events Hub team builds the infrastructure behind that moment — processing trillions of ads daily at a scale few teams in the industry ever touch. Your work will appear on Amazon.com and dozens of other websites, reaching tens of millions of customers and driving measurable revenue impact.

We build and operate the data systems powering the ad serving stack across Amazon's advertising businesses — including a signal intelligence layer that transforms raw session behavior into real-time signals and a distributed ultra-scale caching layer. These are tier-1 systems running at four 9s availability and five 9s reliability. You'll work cross-functionally with Engineers, Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Development Managers to build new advertising experiences, and grow technical skills in an environment built on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead multiple, complex cross-functional initiatives simultaneously from initiation through delivery. Involves — anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management and communicating status broadly across all levels
- Make tradeoffs while balancing the business needs with technical constraints
- Work closely with engineering teams to define near term and long term product roadmap
- Create mechanisms to drive timely, accurate, and comprehensive project execution. Create clarity, eliminate obstacles and drive issue resolution to ensure deliverables & timelines are met. Drive continuous improvement efforts to ensure delivery mechanisms get better over time


About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. 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. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

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 managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- 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

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