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Form of work Are you looking for the opportunity to have a major impact on cutting edge technology used by millions of people every day? The EU Prime and Marketing team is looking for a Sr. TPM to work on our worldwide feature that helps Amazon customers find great deals on great products.
EU Prime and Marketing Tech solutions are an integral part of the Amazon shopping experience and we are a key element of events like Prime Day. Our science and infrastructure are used to drive the experience for hundreds of millions of customers WW. We partner with teams throughout the Amazon ecosystem to optimize deal ingestion, to enhance classification and ranking of deals, to expand deal discovery throughout the site, and to raise the bar for the best customer experience on mobile app, web, desktop.
We love to work with smart, solution-oriented people that have a strong sense of ownership and customer obsession. We are passionate about building well-designed, robust and scalable software to deliver inspiring user experiences that delight our customers. We offer the opportunity to work with Economists, Applied Scientists, AWS Machine Learning solutions to build innovative and sophisticated experiences that customers love. You will be part of a team of passionate and experienced professionals in the multi-cultural environment of the EU Amazon Development.
These teams are comprised of Software Engineers at multiple levels alongside Economists, Applied Scientists, Technical Program Managers, UX Designers, and Business partners. TPM’s on this team will work closely with a variety of business and technology platform and service teams across Amazon.
We look for experienced software engineering leaders who possess a wide variety of skills. As the successful applicant for this role, you will solve varied complex problems across Amazon (including business prioritization, technical challenges in optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, scalability, security, and algorithms, to name just a few), you will drive multiple programs in parallel, you will work with business stakeholders and partner technical teams across Europe, Asia, India and the USA. Our team is composed of many clever and generally awesome people, so you'll learn a huge amount - and have a lot of fun - in the process!
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs against technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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
- Experience in Technical Program management working directly with software engineering teams
- Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
- Experience managing Technical Programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience in system design
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
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