Principal Tech Program Manager, Ads AI Core Services

About the role

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business and the Ads AI Core infrastructure team develops core services to support Ads agents’ needs for Advertiser Registration and Access Management, Ad Catalog Service, Billing, Data Ingestion/Publishing and Analytics that underpin advertising programs such as Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands. This role will see you collaborate with a large number of teams across WW Advertising to drive key initiatives to improve the resilience of advertising systems.

Responsibilities

• 100% focus on the customer: understand needs and requirements and anticipate future trends
• Drive results by coordinating large, multi-functional projects on-time, anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management, making trade-offs, and balancing business needs versus technical constraints
• Define or review systems-level technical design and balance near-term business need with long-term implications
• Rationalize technical requirements and business priorities in cross-functional teams
• Manage cross-functional communication to ensure all business and technical stakeholders’ needs are aligned
• Thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment; not hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities
• Develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives while also rolling up sleeves to dig in and get the job done
• Be data-driven and analytical; constantly strive to expand understanding of the metrics that drive business and growth aspirations
• Communicate clearly at all levels in the organization, including senior management

Requirements

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects
• Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Pay

Base salary range: $177,000.00 – $239,400.00 USD annually (Seattle, WA, USA)

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave