Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Ads- Invoicing, Tax and Payments - Measurement And Data Science

Key job responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end program strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for complex, cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations.
• Provide technical depth and judgment to influence architecture decisions, identify risks, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Lead coordination across engineering, product management, design, operations, and business teams to ensure alignment on goals, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership (Director, VP, SVP level), driving clarity and decision-making at all levels of the organization.
• Proactively identify program risks, develop mitigation strategies, and drive resolution of blockers to keep programs on track.
• Own program delivery timelines, define success metrics, and establish mechanisms (MBRs, WBRs, dashboards) to track progress and ensure accountability.
• Design and implement scalable program management processes, tools, and best practices that improve team velocity and operational efficiency.
• Map and manage complex cross-team and cross-org dependencies, ensuring alignment and removing bottlenecks.
• Drive creation of technical specifications, design documents, runbooks, and operational playbooks to support program execution and knowledge transfer.
• Mentor junior TPMs and program managers, raise the bar on program management practices, and influence organizational standards without direct authority.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership