Manager, Tech Program Management

About the role

The Manager, Tech Program Management will lead large projects within Amazon’s Grocery technology space, including managing a team and delivering results through project execution. They will guide the team in gathering requirements, overseeing specifications, and ensuring project timelines from design to launch. They will also develop strategic roadmaps and long-term visions for their domain, manage team performance, and establish metrics for tracking team and project success.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive delivery via your team on large projects across the Grocery technology space, including individual team member management duties and delivering results through your team.
• Guide your team in collecting business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, overseeing specification writing, and ensuring project schedules from design to release and production launches.
• Enable cross-team coordination to develop optimal solutions in an agile environment, leveraging your previous hands-on experience.
• Develop strategic roadmaps and long-term vision for your domain, while managing team performance through hiring, coaching, career development, and performance reviews.
• Manage budget planning, resource allocation, and build relationships with senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Drive operational excellence by implementing process improvements, identifying and mitigating risks, and establishing metrics to track team performance and project success.
• Empower your team to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, and ensure clear communication of goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to cross-functional and remote project teams through your direct reports and leadership chain in alignment with organizational mechanisms.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
• 8+ years of technical program management experience.
• 7+ years managing complex technology projects hands-on.
• 3+ years of experience as a people manager.
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.

Skills

• Strong program management background.
• Demonstrated experience leading large programs.
• Demonstrated experience and an interest in managing a team.
• Well-rounded technical background.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary range: $163,600.00 - $221,300.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time