Principal TPM, Search

The Amazon Search team is responsible for helping customers find relevant products that meet their expectations in terms of price, quality, and convenience. Our goal is to make shopping easy and enable customers to shop with confidence.

About the role

We are seeking a Principal TPM to join our team and leverage advanced machine learning (AI/ML), personalization, and ranking algorithms to enhance the Amazon search experience. The ideal candidate should have experience in a fast-paced environment, strong technical depth in ML systems, and a bias for action. Success in this role requires a customer-centric approach, innovative thinking, and effective communication across technical and business stakeholders. This is a highly technical role that may require a technical assessment.

Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end delivery of large-scale programs that help the organization meet its long-term goals.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to align on priorities, drive consensus, and deliver results at scale.
• Collaborate with science, engineering, product, and UX design to implement scalable and efficient solutions to key customer problems in search.
• Define KPIs and metrics to measure success, identify areas for improvement, and provide actionable updates to leadership through detailed reporting and insights.
• Act as the key connection point between engineering and business teams, ensuring alignment, effective communication, and seamless execution.

About the team

Our team is known for its high motivation, collaborative culture, and genuine enthusiasm for the work we do. We uphold strong entrepreneurial values and maintain a proactive approach. In this role, you will address customer challenges, define strategic vision, prioritize investments in ML and personalization technology, and create innovative search experiences globally across all devices. This high-impact role requires creative thinking and enjoys strong executive support. As a leader, you will promote teamwork, collaboration, and commitment among diverse teams, ultimately delivering satisfying customer experiences. You will have full ownership from strategy development to execution, performance assessment, and daily oversight of search relevance programs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules

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, WA, Seattle - $177,000.00 - $239,400.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and 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 and parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.