Sr. Technical Program Manager, Personal Mobile Devices, Personal Mobile Devices

Imagine being part of a team building the future of Personal Mobile Devices with Alexa AI. Amazon is focused on bringing AI, technology, and design into a form that is familiar to millions of people in a way that has never been done before. If you are excited about pushing the envelope and developing brand new experiences that empower users to do more as they engage with the physical world, we would love to meet you.

Amazon is looking for a Senior Software Technical Program Manager to join our exciting project team working to build and launch new best in class consumer products. We are an innovative, cross-platform, customer-obsessed team, working on big-bets in an innovative environment. Our organization rewards intellectual curiosity while maintaining the direct to market product focus. Our mission is to invent and simplify large-scale solutions and bring the future to Amazon customers.

We are inventing the future for consumer electronics products and are looking for the Senior Technical Program Manager to drive our vision to reality. In this role you will be leading programs and projects to launch Personal Mobile Devices. Successful candidates are senior leaders with a technical background who are detail driven and have excellent problem solving abilities. You should not only be passionate about delivering extensible, on-time solutions, but should also be obsessed with contributing to the development of high-performance teams through rigorous goal-setting, disciplined attention to performance metrics, continuous process improvement, and mentorship.

• Drive product launch with cross org collaborations on roadmap alignment.
• Lead and influence stakeholders to assemble project teams, assign responsibilities, identify appropriate resources needed and develop schedules to ensure timely completion of projects by meeting project milestones.
• Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and encourage risk taking behavior to maximize business benefit.
• Oversee engineering teams to develop features and framework capabilities that will be utilized to deliver products and features.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver the best product with most efficient use of resources and technologies.

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

• 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

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

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…