Senior Design Program Manager, Amazon Ads

About the role

The Amazon Ads Creative Experiences Design team is seeking a self-motivated, ownership-minded, and nimble Senior Design Program Manager.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Design leadership to operationalize strategy, translating priorities into clear programs, roadmaps, milestones, resource plans, and operating mechanisms.
• Program manage strategic, design-led initiatives ensuring they make meaningful progress alongside ongoing product delivery.
• Drive design execution across the portfolio, creating visibility into priorities, dependencies, capacity, risks, and milestones while empowering designers to own their work and timelines.
• Connect Design, Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional teams, ensuring dependencies are understood, decisions happen at the right level, and obstacles are proactively identified and resolved.
• Build and continuously improve lightweight, scalable mechanisms for planning, prioritization, design reviews, leadership reviews, communication, and cross-team collaboration.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, working sessions, and team offsites with Design leadership, turning strategic discussions into clear decisions, ownership, and actionable outcomes.
• Strengthen design organizational effectiveness and culture by increasing transparency, connecting related work, defining measures of success, and fostering collaboration and shared accountability across the team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience
• Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
• Experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements
• Experience managing UX programs and working with Design and Research
• Experience building scalable programs and repeatable scalable processes, leveraging various tools and methods to create scale and efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (agile to waterfall)
• Experience working and contributing to project playbooks, building schedules, managing issues/risks, establishing communication plans and stakeholder management
• Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment