Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Do you have experience driving critical cross-organizational programs? Are you equally comfortable digging in to business requirements as drilling into technical design and architecture? Are you passionate about software development? Do you want to be part of a worldwide brand that’s grown to $35 billion in revenue in just over eight years?
The Business-to-Business (B2B) market is ripe for innovation, and Amazon Business ( is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager. This team is reshaping buying in the B2B world by using technology to help our Customers streamline their procurement and purchasing operations and turn them into value drivers for their organizations. Our more than five million Customers operate across geographies and industries and include 96 of the top Fortune 100 companies. Visit our homepage or LinkedIn Page to learn more.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate is a creative, with excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. This candidate should be proactive, thoughtful, thorough, decisive, and flexible, conducting themselves professionally and with integrity at all times. You must know how to influence and motivate to get the right things done. At the core of the position is delivery. You will have a strong working knowledge of software development processes and thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), you find clear paths through roadblocks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You will have an ability to take large, complex programs and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional and technical user stories, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical thinking and leadership are essential to success in this role.
We work in an entrepreneurial environment and deliver value incrementally and frequently. We are still in the early stages of development, so you will be in on the ground floor. If you are a candidate with a strong sense of ownership, passion and drive to delight customers, come join us!
A day in the life
As an AB Operations Sr TPM, you manage a suite of in-flight initiatives for high-visibility, high-impact programs for AB customers by driving collaboration across a wide swatch of technical and operations stakeholders. A typical day may involve running a review of product requirements, preparing and presenting a project status report to leadership, and driving an escalation to unblock a critical dependency; or all of the above.
About the team
WW Ops Amazon Business is building the operations and supply chain solutions that is enabling Amazon Business’s rapid growth by re-engineering our shopping experience and supply chain to offer bulk, consolidated, pallet deliveries and other features that business customers require.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Job Tags
Full time, Worldwide, Flexible hours,