Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Smart Home

Amazon.com Inc

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Alexa, Best Practices, Business Skills, Cloud Computing, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Delivery Management, Drilling, Functional Programming Languages, Leadership, Product Documentation, Product Engineering, Product Planning, Production Management, Project Design, Project/Program Management, Quality Assurance, Requirements Management, Smart Homes, Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
4 days ago

The Alexa Smart Home team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented Technical Program Manager who will be responsible for delivering engaging and innovative smart home features for our customers.

Do you enjoy the challenge and ownership that comes from driving complex, cross-functional and cross-organizational projects? Are you equally comfortable digging into business requirements, product planning, and drilling into technical architecture and design? This job may be for you!

Key job responsibilities

This role requires hands-on project management skills, deep technical expertise, and excellent leadership skills. You will be responsible for collecting requirements from internal and external customers, driving projects from design to release, and managing the production launch. In this role, you will:

  • Work with engineers and technical leaders to identify best practices for building resilient systems
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with technical and non-technical teams and stakeholders
  • Drive effective cross-functional teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitments across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
  • Participate in and support system design
  • Own successful delivery of large, impactful, and highly cross-functional program initiatives while simultaneously tracking a set of smaller projects
  • Lead and contribute to weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews, able to create, maintain and disseminate clear and concise program updates to stakeholders across multiple organizations
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs with technical constraints
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to develop program and product requirements

A day in the life

You will work with product and partner stakeholders to define customer facing features. You"ll manage feature delivery from end to end by guiding product, engineering, QA and partners. You"ll dive into customer experience, requirements, engineering plans. You"ll guide the product, engineering, science and operations teams to develop experiences at the edge, in the cloud, and integrate them into consumer services.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles