Senior Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Job summary
About Amazon Music

As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon Music, you will have the opportunity to work closely with product, design, software development and platform teams to implement strategy and execution. You will collaborate with the product teams to deliver the best solutions with efficient use of resources and technologies. You will make strong business cases for project prioritization and investment. You will also assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and inspire risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit. If you enjoys solving problems in a dynamic environment and influencing business and technical leaders with your creative solutions, we want to talk to you!

A day in the life
As a Senior TPM, you will managing large initiatives. You will communicate progress and outcomes effectively to directors and VPs. You'll own the delivery of the Playback Experience (PBE) team's most complex projects. In partnership with product and engineering teams, you'll use your excellent technical judgment to define goals, prioritize features, and own the milestones that help us deliver results. As a leader in PBX, you'll also help us refine and streamline our processes; helping make them a model for other teams in Music and pillar for your influence within the larger organization.

About the team
Be part of the Playback Experience team (PBX) at Amazon Music. We make music happen. Our clients and services are the critical link between your device-Echo, iOS, Android, Fire TV-and the Amazon Music catalog. Over 80 million songs. Our mission is the fast, flawless, and secure delivery and playback of music for our customers.
Our playback engine plays the music on millions of iOS, Android, and Fire TV devices. While our backend serves hundreds of millions of requests each day. Premium Audio includes work on HD and UHD using lossless codecs and spatial format like Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of technical program management experience working directly with software engineering teams
Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules
Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 5+ years' experience as a technical program manager leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex software projects
• 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
• Drive implementation and delivery of large-scale Music initiatives.
• Lead agile engineering and design teams to coordinate, prioritize and deliver to a daring roadmap

This position is also eligible for someone to work in Los Angeles, or Atlanta.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d92184-3-16-76-43-42 in your application.