Principal TPM, Corporate Projects

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you enjoy ideating, innovating, and accelerating game-changing programs? Do you have a start-up mentality? Do you thrive in ambiguity and know how to spot diamonds in the rough?

Corporate Projects Team (CPT) seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to own program management and technical leadership of CPT’s project portfolio. CPT is an accelerator-team within Corp Dev that is comprised of individuals with a diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. We partner with business/tech teams and look across the company to identify nascent or emerging projects that have long-term, strategic value to Amazon, and we work with those teams to develop the right vision, proof points/experiments, and roadmap to accelerate those projects forward. We provide direct support based on the needs of each partner team, ranging from Technical Design, Product, Program Management, Economics/Science Design, and Business Development. We work with teams that have promising projects that are currently blocked by resources, prioritization or risk, and we deliver results with our customer-teams that provide step-function growth and optimization for Amazon.

In this role you will not only execute programs, but you will also be expected to source opportunities and design programs around those opportunities as well. In this regard, working with CPT is a unique opportunity within Amazon. For each project, you will work on the frontlines with a cross-functional team of stakeholders to seamlessly integrate CPT’s resources into the partner’s local-builder team and infrastructure. You will be a serial entrepreneur who will deliver program proof-of-concepts, design, and direction that successfully unblocks the project and tees it up for a multi-year roadmap. This is not your conventional TPM role.

Key responsibilities include:
· Work both collaboratively with other CPT principals (Science, Product, Tech, Biz Dev) and independently to identify and source opportunities.
· Establish programs that integrate CPT resources with our partners’ local team(s).
· Facilitate a holistic technical direction, identifying risks and opportunities, and securing required resources through both conventional and creative means.
· Drive program with internal and external facing mechanisms to eliminate obstacles while maintaining schedule.
· Establish O/E and continuous development mechanisms to enable seamless tech-transfer and hand-off program after collaboration is finished.
· Coach and mentor SDE resources within CPT.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Earn trust quickly with partner teams, indirectly influence to drive collaboration.
· Excel in program management mechanisms (scoping, planning, resourcing, problem solving).
· Balance executive direction with immediate pain points.
· Provide cross-org leadership and direction via strong communication skills.
· Be comfortable wearing many hats and demonstrating high ownership to get projects over the line.
· Look around corners for longer-term opportunities.
· Strong negotiating and positioning instincts.
· Experience and proven success working with v0 and v1 iterations of products/programs.
· Have 10+ years of experience managing programs of varied domains and technical environments.
· Highly entrepreneurial to independently develop ideas with business/tech leaders that frame opportunities for CPT.
· Proficiency with commonly used programming language(s).

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.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
· 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
· 7+ years of technical program management experience