Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Customer Journeys

• 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

Are you passionate about inventing experiences that help customers discover ways to incorporate Generative AI in their daily lives? Do you want to work in a fast paced environment surrounded by the smartest and most customer obsessed product, engineering, marketing, and data science leaders on the planet, where the future is still to be defined? Alexa Customer Journeys team is looking for a Sr. Technical Program Manager to help customers find new experiences on events they enjoy, with Alexa.

You will be working on systems and solutions with Large Language Model (LLM) and other generative technologies, to design customer-facing experiences with Alexa, and building solutions to make Alexa an expert in itself. We are looking for an experienced, customer obsessed Technical Program Manager who is able to collaborate effectively with a technical team and be responsible for key aspects of the software customer experience. The role is inherently cross-functional: you will work closely with a high-energy team of software engineers, product managers, user experience designers as well as customer service leads. The role is focussed on program that spans across multiple teams and also across time zones, with a broad program scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead multiple, complex cross-functional initiatives simultaneously from initiation through delivery. Involves anticipating bottlenecks, providing escalation management and communicating status broadly across all levels
• Make tradeoffs while balancing the business needs with technical constraints
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to define near term and long term product roadmap
• Create mechanisms to drive timely, accurate, and comprehensive project execution. Create clarity, eliminate obstacles and drive issue resolution to ensure deliverables & timelines are met. Drive continuous improvement efforts to ensure delivery mechanisms get better over time
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering team

This role is a good fit for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, is both creative and technical, and who is sensitive to (or understands) the diverse perspectives of stakeholders and works with them to resolve differences.

About the team
The Alexa Customer Journeys team builds products and technology that simplifies customers lives. Our products are used by millions of customer, across Amazon devices, WW. Our teams invent on behalf of our customers and have a ton of fun along the way!

• 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.