Amazon Stores Tech is looking for a passionate, deeply technical, and results-oriented Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive India and Emerging Stores’s software architectures to be regionally flexible to operate from any region. The role owns driving Region Flexibility initiatives for India and Emerging Stores business needs. The role is responsible for defining, planning and delivering the technical programs that span across multiple engineering teams and organisational boundaries.
A successful candidate will have experience working in a high pace environment, have strong bias for action, and be comfortable in working in an ambiguous environment. They have a proven track record of planning and delivering complex programs with multi-year roadmaps. They will work with multiple teams to identify and prioritise needs, able to effectively influence up and across the organisation, and handle communication from technical developers to senior VPs.
Key job responsibilities
Engineering execution - drive crisp and timely execution based on customer impact and business opportunity
Priority management - manage diverse requests and dependencies from multiple teams
Process improvements – define, implement and continuously improve delivery and operational efficiency
Stakeholder management – interface with and influence your stakeholders, balancing business needs vs. technical constraints and driving clarity in ambiguous situations
Operational Excellence – monitor metrics and program health, anticipate and clear blockers, manage escalations
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 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
- 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