Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM), Video Ads

About the role

Do you want to work on Video Advertising platforms developing products that delight your customers? Video advertising is a complex, multi-sided market with many technologies at play within the industry. The industry is rapidly growing and evolving as viewers are shifting from traditional TV viewing to streaming video and publishers are increasingly adding video content to their online experiences. Amazon’s video advertising program is a rising competitor in this industry. Amazon’s service has differentiated assets in our customer & audience insights, exclusive video content, and associated inventory that position us well as an end‑to‑end service for advertisers and agencies. We are innovating at the intersection of advertising, e‑commerce, and entertainment. Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM) is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to define program strategies and deliver delightful solutions in video advertising to our advertisers. You will drive simple and elegant advertiser and publisher facing features with complex data systems behind them. You will manage implementation of multiple projects ensuring product strategy goals and requirements are delivered with quality. As Sr TPM, you will interact with product managers, software development managers, developers, and senior leaders across partner teams in the ads organization to deliver complex projects and programs. You will define roadmap deliverables, develop program execution plans, track progress, anticipate risks, provide escalation management, make sound trade off decisions, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. Amazon Advertising has a top tier culture, with brilliant team members who take great pride in technical and business contributions of their work. As part of Amazon Advertising you will have significant impacts on Amazon's business, advertisers, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Devise solutions, design, build, and deliver them
• Be detail oriented with a strong technical background
• Apply excellent problem‑solving skills
• Develop a deep understanding of product design and implementation details to represent engineering teams to senior leadership and customers
• Leverage expertise in operational excellence to deliver robust solutions in highly reliable, low‑latency systems
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Be self‑driven and deliver high‑quality results in a fast‑paced environment
• Enjoy working closely with talented teams
• Obsess over customers and have a passion for advertising

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 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

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

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, option for Supplemental life plans)
• EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign‑on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

• New York, NY: $163,600 – $221,300 USD annually
• Austin, TX: $148,700 – $201,200 USD annually
• Base salary range with sign‑on payments and RSUs (final compensation based on experience, qualifications, location)