Sr Technical Program Manager, Amazon Robotics

Description

Do you want to create worldwide impact in Robotics? Amazon Robotics is building high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans—at Amazon scale. Our team invents and scales AI systems for robotics in fulfillment. We invent new hardware configurations and end of arm tools. We deploy software to manage fleets of robots across the world. Our team’s mission is to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently with the clutter and uncertainty of real-world fulfillment centers. Our AI solutions enable robots to learn from their own experiences, from each other, and from humans to build intelligence that feeds itself.

Key job responsibilities

• Deliver execution priority alignment across org hardware, software and science teams to enable successful deployment of features.
• Define a vision, roadmap, and long-term direction working backwards from robotics product requirements.
• Able to synthesize data and interpret to formulate sound program goals and outcomes.
• Develop and manage projects from ideation through execution, including project scope, timeline, and project execution;
• Address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Develop business metrics and KPIs to enable successful deployment of robots and develop audit mechanisms (e.g., metrics, reporting, evaluation standards) to track and report on them.

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• 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
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience working with Applied Science and Hardware teams