Principal Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Job summary
About Amazon Music

Key job responsibilities
We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to help us make our visions reality. In this role, you will work with Product Management, Science and Engineering to shape the vision and then drive the execution. You will invent and streamline processes to increase our efficiency and effectiveness; collaborate with our partners and secure support of our dependencies; and add incredible value through recognizing and assessing risks, proposing trade-offs, driving prioritization and keeping the team focused on their goals. You will work at all levels of the organization from diving deep into technical problems with the engineers to presenting our plans and status to executive leadership

A day in the life
Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

About the team
Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Architectural design or system design experience independent of an architect
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience driving roadmap strategy and definition
• 7+ years of technical program management experience
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science
• Professional experience as a software developer
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience with project delivery for large, cross functional projects involving partner teams inside and outside your organization
• Experience developing Internet products and technologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience building and launching consumer software products for web, mobile or desktop platforms
• Ability to handle multiple priorities in an energizing environment
• Customer relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements, underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet bold timelines with optimal solutions
• A deep understanding of the SDLC and consistent record of achieving program objectives on schedule, on budget and meeting quality criteria
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for program success.
• Performance Tuning and Scalability Testing

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