Sr. Technical Program Manager, LATECH

Amazon brings buyers and sellers together. Our retail customers depend on us to give them access to every product at the best possible price. Our sellers depend on us to give them a platform to launch their business into every home and marketplace. Making this happen is the mission of every engineer on the Amazon International Technology team.

The job is simple: make everything available to everyone all the time at the best possible price. The requirements are almost as simple - we're looking for leaders and trailblazers who aren't afraid of tackling massive scale, layered complexity and ambiguous requirements to empower our customers to shop the World. No two features are ever the same and our customers are hungry for every single one

If you want to create exciting new features, bringing unique experiences and value to our customers, then we want to talk to you. If you want to work on the technologies that bring lower prices to customers, we want to talk to you. If you want to work on internet scale to positively touch millions of customers' experiences then we want to talk to you

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will be responsible for leading Latam & APAC programs in designing, developing, testing, and deploying a variety of new customer experiences by working with engineers. The work will be primarily in the Retail Shopping space and generally related to Pricing initiatives. You will partner across functions to help define creative vision, product requirements, user experience, and cross-team integration for retail operations. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, designers, product managers, business stakeholders, and central team engineers, you will help define and drive the product from concept all the way through to production.

A day in the life
- 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 product and 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

- Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering team

About the team
The LATECH team is 300+ people; the Canada office is a small portion of that (30 people, primarily in Vancouver) made of experienced Amazonians who tackle complex/ambiguous problems every day. We keep our on-call load low, so we can focus on solving bigger-picture problems.

Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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

Preferred Qualifications:
- 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.

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The base salary for this position ranges from $128,100/year up to $214,000/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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