Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Come, join a fun-loving, diverse, and creative team at Amazon, involved in building innovative new technologies for delivering billions of customer packages at the customer doorstep! The Last Mile Technical team owns the technical solutions that helps deliver billions of packages world wide. We are instrumental in impacting customer satisfaction directly, by devising innovative ways to deliver packages quickly and cost-effectively to the customers, and at scale using Optimization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning solutions.
Our team is seeking a Technical Program Manager to manage large, complex programs with multi-year projects. In this role, you will be responsible for managing cross-cutting programs across the Last Mile org and our partners, delivering large scale solutions that span multiple businesses, technology, and operational teams. These projects will include initiatives, such as, rolling out new technology to new geographies as we expand, creating technical solutions to support new businesses and strategic Amazon initiatives, and building great technology platforms that can scale to Amazon’s size and global market places.
The right candidate will possess a strong program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects across multiple teams, and will have a well-rounded technical background in current e-commerce and supply chain technologies. You will thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. As a seasoned TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of experience in technical /leadership program management, systems architecture, or system development
- 7+ years of project management experience and demonstrated knowledge of program management best practices
- 5+ years of experience with software development lifecycle from conception to delivery
- Bachelor's Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, mathematics, or other related fields
- Experience with designing and owning a product roadmap and/or managing a software development lifecycle for multi-year cycle
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