Sr. Technical Program Manager, Hardware NPI, Edge & High Performance Accelerator Servers for AI/ML

Key job responsibilities

• You manage large, complex New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, delivering critical solutions, significant improvements, new mechanisms, or deprecating systems that are no longer needed.
• You successfully manage all stages (from concept to launch).
• You understand the architecture of the hardware systems you own.
• You influence team technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions.
• You communicate ideas effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences including Directors and VPs.
• You foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues (build consensus).
• You partner successfully with customers, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• You routinely and efficiently deliver the right things.
• You define clear goals and objectives.
• You drive crisp decisions in your program area about what projects move forward and in what priority order.
• You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your team and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks.
• You are a simplifier. You judiciously add, refine, and remove procedures. By applying project management best practices, you increase the productivity and effectiveness of the teams you work with.

  About The Team

  AWS Hardware Engineering team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon’s web services. Our engineers work with leading edge technologies, solve challenging problems, influence the industry’s roadmaps, and develop new and unique solutions that are ahead of the pack. We work in an environment that fosters innovation and creativity. We encourage and invest in new directions and new ideas that will serve our customers better. We sometimes fail, but we learn from such failures and we improve. It is because of the team and our constant focus on the customers, that we are able to develop creative and new designs that set the standards on performance, quality, cost, and operational excellence.

  Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 7+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentations experience
  • Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
  • Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
  • Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
  • Experience managing complex hardware systems and programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

  Preferred Qualifications

  • 7+ 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
  • Extensive experience managing complex hardware systems and programs, building processes, complicated schedules with many dependencies, identifying risks, trade-offs, designing 2-way doors
  • Experience owning and driving complex server system NPIs such as compute, gpu (AI/ML), or storage servers