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Description

The Hercules Big Data team in Amazon Advertising is looking for a Sr. Technical Program Manager who will own the management and execution of our Big Data platform and multiple data offerings — tools and products that enable sales and science teams to better understand, engage with, and improve the experience of advertisers. You will work with business and technology teams to develop scalable and innovative solutions that store petabytes of data, ingested from both batch and streaming sources, into data structures and technologies relevant for making daily sales, product, and financial decisions, and expose it using tools that drive insights and actions. We’re a fast-growing team with a very high focus from business to grow, so there are lots of opportunities. No chance of getting bored here.

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be 100% focused on our business, understanding the needs and requirements, plus anticipating future trends that will serve their needs. You will also be excellent at driving results, being able to coordinate large, multi-functional projects on-time, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. You are involved in defining or reviewing the systems-level technical design of your projects and balance near term business need with long term implications for Amazon. You rationalize technical requirements and business priorities in cross-functional teams. You manage cross-functional communication to ensure all business and technical stakeholder’s needs are aligned.

A day in the life

A Senior Technical Program Manager (Sr. TPM) will partner with engineers, other TPMs, Product Managers and senior management to help create world-class solutions. We're looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history. The ideal TPM is a creative, demonstrated leader with superior analytical abilities and an expeditious drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.

About the team

Hercules is part of the Worldwide Advertiser Success Engineering (WASE) Productivity and Platform team. We are a big-data focused engineering team that provides unique, pan-Amazon datasets consolidating advertiser, seller, and vendor KPIs, exposed via data warehousing and fast APIs. Our data platform is designed to serve Sales, Account, Marketing and Support (SAMS) teams across WW Advertising orgs for various applications including business processes, ML, account management, marketing, and decisioning systems.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 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

• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design

• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

• Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.