Do you want to build advanced systems that help manage a global business? Are you excited by the prospect of ensuring the high-availability of core systems that manage the discoverability of Earth’s largest selection (with over 1Bn products) for our customers? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems and directly impact the profitability of the company?
Join our team as a Technical Program Manager and you will be responsible for building the next generation of systems designed to manage a rapidly growing business and improve the experience for our customers.
Amazon’s e-commerce taxonomy is driven by complex, highly structured data. There are many interdependent systems across the company that consume and rely on the data; the most important of which is the customer-facing website. As Amazon continues to extend its global reach into more marketplaces, building scalable systems to manage the data & discoverability is a major focus for our organization. We rely on highly available and scalable systems to ensure that our customers can easily discover the products they seek with the least amount of friction. You can help us reach our goals.
You will bring your technical skills and experience in building world-class systems to help manage the data & discoverability across Amazon web sites. You will be working across a problem domain that is critical to our customers for their shopping experience. You will be able to directly shape system design, development and implementation of our future architecture.
You will join a passionate and high-functioning team working on the leading edge of online technology. Amazon’s culture of customer obsession, high technical standards and individual ownership permeates everything we do. Come join us and show us how you can shine in this demanding and rewarding environment.
Major responsibilities
• Dig deep to identify and understand the business needs that will help us build the next generation of systems
• Establish creative visualizations of work-flow and underlying data
• Build a scalable platform for managing the taxonomy and assignments for the 1Bn+ items in our catalog
• Track general business activity and provide clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basis
• Ask tough questions to a cross-functional team of business executives and team leaders
Specifically, you will
• Drive projects cross functionally and build partnerships with other teams at Amazon.com to align goals and leverage synergies
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
• Be comfortable in getting hands dirty in delivering results
Join our team as a Technical Program Manager and you will be responsible for building the next generation of systems designed to manage a rapidly growing business and improve the experience for our customers.
Amazon’s e-commerce taxonomy is driven by complex, highly structured data. There are many interdependent systems across the company that consume and rely on the data; the most important of which is the customer-facing website. As Amazon continues to extend its global reach into more marketplaces, building scalable systems to manage the data & discoverability is a major focus for our organization. We rely on highly available and scalable systems to ensure that our customers can easily discover the products they seek with the least amount of friction. You can help us reach our goals.
You will bring your technical skills and experience in building world-class systems to help manage the data & discoverability across Amazon web sites. You will be working across a problem domain that is critical to our customers for their shopping experience. You will be able to directly shape system design, development and implementation of our future architecture.
You will join a passionate and high-functioning team working on the leading edge of online technology. Amazon’s culture of customer obsession, high technical standards and individual ownership permeates everything we do. Come join us and show us how you can shine in this demanding and rewarding environment.
Major responsibilities
• Dig deep to identify and understand the business needs that will help us build the next generation of systems
• Establish creative visualizations of work-flow and underlying data
• Build a scalable platform for managing the taxonomy and assignments for the 1Bn+ items in our catalog
• Track general business activity and provide clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basis
• Ask tough questions to a cross-functional team of business executives and team leaders
Specifically, you will
• Drive projects cross functionally and build partnerships with other teams at Amazon.com to align goals and leverage synergies
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
• Be comfortable in getting hands dirty in delivering results
•BA/BS in a technical discipline (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics).
•3+ years of experience in project or program management.
•A deep understanding of software development, architecture, and infrastructure.
Experience running large scale projects with cross team dependencies
•Experience working in or leading teams following agile software development practices (Scrum, etc.)
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•MBA or MS in a technical discipline
•Data-driven decision making or quantitative analysis skills (including knowledge of Excel, SQL, or statistics)