Trust and Privacy Technical Program Manager, Devices & Services Trust, Privacy, and Accessibility (TPA)
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Yesterday
Project ManagementFull-time
About the role
The DSTPA team is seeking a Technical Program Manager with privacy, data protection, risk management expertise, and strong technical capabilities. This position requires detail-oriented risk event handling, technical system understanding, and high-judgment decision-making from event intake through incident containment or risk mitigation.
Responsibilities
- Manage escalated technical events and cases from start to finish; write detailed case notes, technical reports, summaries, and recommendations for various audiences, including leadership
- Execute trust and privacy compliance campaigns and initiatives with technical requirements, ensuring timely remediation within established SLAs
- Monitor and maintain operational scorecards and metrics dashboards using SQL, Python, and data visualization tools, performing trend analysis and identifying systemic issues
- Respond to and manage high-severity technical incidents, conducting root cause analysis and coordinating cross-functional response efforts
- Conduct technical controls testing and validation activities to ensure compliance with policies, standards, and legal and regulatory requirements
- Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), technical runbooks, and training materials for operational processes
- Identify opportunities to automate and simplify operational processes through scripting, tooling, and workflow automation to improve efficiency
- Partner with engineering teams to define technical requirements for privacy automation tools, policy enforcement, and incident response systems
- Track assessment, validation, and remediation actions, ensuring teams prioritize and execute tasks in a timely fashion
- Understand system architectures, data flows, and technical dependencies to effectively assess privacy and trust risks
- Communicate technical remediation plans, status, and critical issues clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support technical deep dive assessments and ad-hoc data analysis requests related to privacy and trust incidents and risks
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 2+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design