Senior Technical Program Manager
Description
Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction.
About the Role
The Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) will manage the complexity and vast technical workstreams across all aspects of the program. They will maximize decision-making velocity by removing obstacles, auditing, evaluating, and escalating risk to the functional leader when technical decisions or delivery statuses are risk drivers to schedule or the overall technical vision. The role is critical to managing the total timing, overall risks/issues, and dependencies, and scope changes to partner/dependent teams as required.
Responsibilities
- Establishing and contributing to a mechanism and cadence to manage the Amazon industrial robotic program
- Managing escalations or misalignments when there are risks to delivering committed services with high quality; facilitating/leading tradeoff decisions with customers, stakeholders, and partner teams when there are conflicting priorities
- Working with teams to determine whether a decision is a one-way or two-way door
- Managing necessary discussions with customer and partner teams to manage expectations, impacts, and risks, associated with said decisions
- Contributing to and publishing a clear RACI to create transparency with customer teams and to drive ownership and accountability
- Coordinating across internal teams to ensure alignment and enablement of delivering deployment services
- Exercising strong technical judgement to influence and drive deployment methodology expertise to program level decisions
- Understanding scalability requirements and determining feasibility of technology deployments at scale – acting as the voice back to Product and Engineering teams to protect for those requirements on emerging technical products
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development, or 3+ years of relevant technical position experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 3+ years of hands-on work managing cross-functional and complex technology projects experience
Qualifications
- Basic Qualifications: 5+ years of technical product or program management experience, 3+ years of software development, or 3+ years of relevant technical position experience, Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, 3+ years of hands-on work managing cross-functional and complex technology projects experience
- Preferred Qualifications: 3+ years of hardware development experience, Experience building sustainable processes across hardware, software, and science, Experience working in Scaled Agile Frameworks across HW/SW teams
Pay
Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.