Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Fresh Physical Stores, Amazon Physical Stores

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Job summary
You are a leader of projects and respected technologist. You are a trusted partner by all who encounter you and when it seems impossible to come to consensus, you get the team to a great conclusion. You are an innovator and excel in an ambiguous environment. You know how to create an achievable yet aggressive schedule like no one else. Agile is just the start when your teams get moving they can deliver changes to customers continuously, and are not afraid to experiment on a daily basis. You help teams to innovate on process and simplify technology. You are a key part of the technical delivery team and while we could not do it without you, you are constantly inventing mechanisms to enable the team to be more self-sufficient. You are technical enough to see all the obstacles ahead of us and creative enough to help the engineers overcome them.

You know that amazing results come from the smart, creative, empathic team you surround yourself with. You don’t disrespect your phenomenal team by calling them “resources” – even if they’re not around to hear it. You are part of creating team culture. You give context, motivate people to common purpose, organize work and remove barriers to productivity. You run out ahead and clear away obstacles your team never even knew were there.

What you’ll do as Technical Program Manager, Amazon Physical Stores
You will own project management for one of the first programs within our team. You’ll be part of formulating our technical strategy, working closely with product management, design, software engineering, and QA. Recognizing that there’s often more to learn from failure than success, you’ll experiment constantly. You will be part of creating a team culture that is trusting, transparent, and inclusive. You will motivate the team with the why and align on common goals. You will gain the investment of our partner teams and ensure they feel included, up to date, and aligned at all times. You will build project schedules that are realistic, but also aggressively deliver customer value. You’ll look around corners, take great care of your teammates, build scalable systems, and know that if a challenge is not a little scary, it’s probably not worth doing.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional experience in Technical Program Management
• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills – ability to clearly communicate high level strategy as well as technical details
• Experience driving technical strategy and architecture decisions
• Experience collaborating with Product, and non-technical partners
• Prior experience working on large cross org programs

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• Experience with mobile or full-stack software development
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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