Principal Technical Program Manager, Alexa Daily Essentials - Amazon

Description We are the team focused on accelerating personal productivity and habitual daily use cases for Alexa - whether that involves how your household remembers tasks and reminders, to how you engage with the daily rituals of catching up with the news or figuring out what to cook for dinner. This position requires an experienced, customer-obsessed leader capable of leading and managing a cross organizational program, diving-deep, working through ambiguity, forging cross-discipline relationships, and influencing senior leaders and executives across all of Alexa. This position has a direct impact on customers and developers, and advances our business. Key job responsibilities -Operate a large scale program with science, engineering, product and design developing towards a customer bar that you will help to define and own -Establish the right mechanisms to operate and inspect at scale -Identify opportunities for simplification; invent methods to drive efficiencies in development. - Interface with science and engineering leaders to help stitch together technologies into meaningful offerings for customers. -Drive business and system-level reviews, align development teams toward coherent technology strategies and effective engineering processes -Work with all levels of leadership to build consensus, and represent complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential solutions, verbally and in writing to SVPs to understand the decisions they need to make and the options they have -Set organization priorities, system owners, business direction A day in the life In this role you will be primary in coordinating and delivering cross-org releases, including both science and engineering innovations. You will keep the tempo and focus across dozens of development teams, by establishing robust mechanisms and driving clarity and throughput. You will ensure releases meet a high customer bar and that an end-to-end experience is delivered with cohesiveness. About the team Our team is a unique change agent team that pairs a deep bench of seasoned product leaders with strong TPMs to deliver across the breadth of Alexa. We encourage a leader who is strong at building relationships and working horizontally. Ability to influence without direct authority critical. We are at the center of innovation and release and the tempo is fast, but exciting. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA Basic Qualifications - 10+ years of engineering experience - 7+ years of technical product or program management experience - 5+ years of software development experience - Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules Preferred Qualifications - 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience - Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules 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 $141,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/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.