Description

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?

The Role:

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design, manage, and deliver innovative consumer products, technologies, and tools. In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with subject matter experts to lead and drive new technology initiatives and evaluations for next generation Amazon products and features

• Align with technical teams to develop program roadmaps

• Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements

• Mentor and support other Technical Program Managers within the team

• Drive data-based activities to develop insights on device and accessory performance and improvement recommendations

• Lead cross functional and full stack problem-solving and development activities from design through delivery

• Work with global teams to deliver supporting software and services in sync with launch timelines.

• Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and change control

• Work with component leads to drive evaluation and adoption of new vendor technologies and HW

• Work with vendors and external partners to deliver device software and firmware technologies into our products

Key job responsibilities

The right candidate should possess a strong program management background, have experience leading large/complex/cross-Org. projects, and have a well-rounded technical background in connectivity SW development. As a Principal Technical Program Manager, your responsibilities will include writing specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, managing the production launch for a product/feature, and using metrics to provide status along the way. You will lead and coordinate design and implementation efforts, coordinating across multiple teams to develop optimal solutions. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, destroy limits to scale, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives while rolling up your sleeves to get the job done. This role will require high judgement on how we can deliver for customers in both the short- and long-term.

A day in the life

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will:

-Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements.

-Use your leadership abilities to drive cross functional development on new solutions from design through delivery.

-Abstract multiple teams within the OS organization to provide a unified status to Product Orgs.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience

• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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