Principal Program Manager, Rufus, Amazon - Amazon

Description The Amazon Rufus Editorial team is seeking a Senior Program Manager who is passionate about technology, innovation, and improving the customer experience. This role is inherently high-visibility and highly cross-functional, requiring collaboration and influence across product, design, science, and engineering. A successful candidate will thrive in ambiguity, bringing process and discipline to a highly dynamic and fluid environment. This person will excel at managing and influencing broad stakeholder groups, establish best-practices that can be scaled across the Conversational Shopping organization, and have the ability to crisply communicate deliverables. This role will require excellent written and oral communication skills, data-driven analyses and insights, exceptional judgment, strong interpersonal skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for serving customers. You must enjoy context-switching and partnering at all levels of the organization to deliver results. Key job responsibilities * Lead key, strategic projects for large, complex editorial workstreams, identifying, assessing, and prioritizing opportunities based on strategic goals, business needs, and customer value * Organize and structure teams to deliver and execute program milestones * Consult with key partners to determine program prioritization, while sourcing and coordinating resources * Proactively monitor progress against goals while anticipating and mitigating risks, creating and owning solutions, and successfully resolving issues * Act as a subject matter expert by contributing perspective, insights, and knowledge to guide the establishment of new processes and systems About the team This is an opportunity to join the high-performing team behind Amazon's new generative AI-powered shopping assistant. Rufus makes it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their unique needs by helping with product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering specific product questions, and more. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA Basic Qualifications - 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience - 7+ years of program or project management experience - 7+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience - Bachelor's degree - Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization - Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements Preferred Qualifications - Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality - Experience owning program strategy and end to end delivery - Experience working with content or creative teams. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $111,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $206,500/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.