Principal Program Manager - Technical, Accounts and Permissions
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you define the strategic vision for the search engine infrastructure that delivers delightful experience to our customers in their shopping mission. You will partner with business experts, data modelers, scientists, and engineers by leveraging new trends in Information retrieval, low latency and high throughput distributed systems, deep learning inference systems, and fault-tolerant application hosting frameworks. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, and will work with technical customers to identify and prioritize needs, able to effectively influence up and across the organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities to deliver quality search experiences that customers love. As a single-threaded owner, you are trusted to operate with complete independence.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and lead a multi-year product roadmap, balancing short and long-term goals to scale globally
- Define creative, high quality, and clear roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
- Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create specifications and architecture for search engine infrastructure features
- Partner with Engineering, Science, Operations, and partner teams to create best-in-class search solutions for customers
- Analyze stakeholder feedback to identify key pain points
- Build innovative concepts and successfully champion them through senior management and other teams
- Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building resilient systems that power great customer experiences
- Roll up sleeves as necessary to ensure projects stay on schedule and meet our high standards of quality