Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Ads Publisher Technologies

About the role

The PubTech (Publisher Technologies) team builds and operates extensible services that empower publishers (1p and 3p) to improve the monetization of their customer experiences, along with the experiences themselves. We bias toward standards-based and flexible designs that allow publishers the ability to invent on top of our solutions and to interoperate well with other advertising technology providers—both internal and external.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) who will define and deliver programs with significant complexity and/or broad cross-organizational, global, or technology impact. Your work will focus on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex or endemic problems. You will operate with complete independence and are often assigned to areas where the business and/or architectural strategy has not yet been defined.

Responsibilities

• Partner effectively with all levels of leadership and build consensus.
• Represent complex decisions, hard trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leaders up to three levels above to help them understand decisions and options.
• Influence organization priorities, system owners, business, and technology direction.
• Manage cross-functional communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed and needs aligned.
• Recognize when current programs are susceptible to prior technology failure patterns and actively steer teams to avoid repeating these failures.
• Identify when a design or solution requires additional technical guidance (e.g., from senior engineers or subject matter experts).
• Drive executive-level escalations with excellent judgment.
• Deliver solutions that meet Amazon’s high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence.
• Amplify your impact by educating the TPM and engineering communities on program management best practices (e.g., in your organization, at your location, or more broadly).
• Participate in knowledge-sharing and collaboration with other TPMs, including attending and/or presenting at internal conferences.

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is:

• New York, NY: $163,600 - $221,300 USD annually
• Austin, TX: $148,700 - $201,200 USD annually
• Seattle, WA: $148,700 - $201,200 USD annually

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and 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.