Program Manager, OPTIMA

The OPTIMA team is seeking a Program Manager with expertise in budgeting and program integration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the financial aspects of multiple projects and integrating them seamlessly into the organization's overall strategy. They will play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of programs while maintaining financial health and adherence to budgets.
Key job responsibilities
We at OPTIMA enable Amazon to deliver a superior shopping experience to customers worldwide. Our mission is to empower Amazon's LLMs through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) across various categories at high speed. We aspire to provide an end-to-end data solution for the LLM lifecycle, leveraging cutting-edge technology alongside our operational excellence. We enable shopping feature teams deliver superior CX quality by providing them reliable and comprehensive insights and ground truth data to measure and train ML (Machine Learning) models and handle annotation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) across 10 different languages

Responsibilities:
1. Budgeting:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive financial plans for each project within the program.
- Analyze financial data to provide insights and recommendations for optimizing resources and investments.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and Finance teams to align financial objectives with program goals and organizational strategy.
- Identify potential risks or opportunities for cost optimization.
- Developing scalable and efficient budget tracking mechanisms that support a rapidly growing business.
- Presenting financial summaries and business insights to senior management.
- Conduct regular budget reviews and variance analyses to identify areas for improvement or corrective action.
2. Program Management and Integration:
- Identify dependencies and optimization opportunities between projects and initiatives, facilitating collaboration and alignment.
- Implement processes and tools to streamline program integration efforts and enhance efficiency.
- Resolve conflicts and remove barriers to integration, fostering a cohesive and unified approach across the organization.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Chennai, TN, IND
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- Strong understanding of financial principles and practices, including forecasting, financial analysis, and risk management.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Master's degree
- PMP
- Lean Six Sigma Green / Black Belt