Principal Technical Program Manager, Sequence Models (project Sequoia)
About the role
The Sequence Models team serves a centralized role developing sequence models to fundamentally understand Amazon's customers' journeys across all Amazon products (including Stores, Prime Video, Audible, Music, Twitch, etc.). These models will unlock new, actionable insights to optimize the customer experience, including when and how we serve ads. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.
About the team
We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry to build scalable modeling and software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end program management for strategic technology initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap alignment across engineering, product, science, and business teams
- Lead cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges
- Establish program governance, metrics, and reporting mechanisms to ensure visibility and accountability at the SVP and CEO level
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks across large-scale distributed systems serving billions of requests daily
- Partner with engineering leaders to influence architecture decisions and ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
- Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across Amazon Ads, Stores, AWS, Media and Stores organizations
- Drive operational excellence through process improvements, automation, and best practices
- Mentor and develop other TPMs across the organization
- Represent this technical program in executive-level reviews and planning sessions
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 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
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Pay
- USA, CA, Palo Alto: $203,500 - $275,300 annually
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $203,500 - $275,300 annually
- USA, NY, New York: $194,700 - $263,400 annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $177,000 - $239,400 annually
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)