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Manager, Technical Program Management, OTS Delivery Software Engineering (DSE)

Amazon.com Inc

  • Austin, TX
  • 2 days ago

    Highlights

    You own the portfolio: your team drives delivery across new product introduction, cross-platform intake, routing, high-volume events, product adoption, platform health, release management, contractual compliance, agentic AI delivery, and voice of the customer. Your TPMs take product requirements defined by the Product Manager or PM-T and own delivery end to end: technical scoping, cross-team coordination, dependency management, release sequencing, risk mitigation, and field rollout and adoption.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationAustin, TX
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Every Amazon package that ships, every grocery order that is fulfilled, and every locker that opens depends on technology our teams keep running. Amazon"s OpsTech Solutions (OTS) is the IT operations and infrastructure organization for all of Amazon Worldwide Operations, including Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS), delivering reliable technology to more than one million associates and operators across every geography and all business miles. OTS is transforming from reactive support to proactive, AI-powered service delivery. Delivery Software Engineering (DSE) owns the ServiceNow platform and the technology behind that transformation, and the Technical Program Management (TPM) team is how the platform program portfolio gets delivered.

    You will lead the DSE Technical Program Management team and own the delivery of its ServiceNow platform program portfolio. This is not a net-new role. You inherit an established team and an active portfolio the team already runs. You manage the people: you hire, develop, and set the bar. You own the portfolio: your team drives delivery across new product introduction, cross-platform intake, routing, high-volume events, product adoption, platform health, release management, contractual compliance, agentic AI delivery, and voice of the customer. You hold team-level accountability for every program your TPMs run.

    This is a people-management and single-threaded-ownership role. Your TPMs take product requirements defined by the Product Manager or PM-T and own delivery end to end: technical scoping, cross-team coordination, dependency management, release sequencing, risk mitigation, and field rollout and adoption. You govern the hand-offs between Product, Engineering, and Operations, and you keep the portfolio clear to those partners and to leadership. You carry platform-level strategic awareness for ServiceNow: what capabilities the platform offers, what we pay for, where we have implementation deficits, and how contractual scope aligns with product roadmap needs. You do not need to be a ServiceNow administrator, but you need to know enough about the platform to hold the boundary between what we build custom and what the platform provides natively.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own people management for the DSE TPM team, including hiring, performance, growth, and promotion, and hold team-level accountability for the delivery of every program the team runs.
    • Define and own the team"s charter, operating model, and goal portfolio, so each program carries a named owner, a metric, and skip-level visibility.
    • Own AI program delivery end to end, including OTS MCP, OTS-A, and OTS-KG, and coordinate agentic-workspace delivery with product partners.
    • Act as single-threaded owner at the portfolio level for ambiguous, cross-functional programs that span Product, Engineering, and Operations.
    • Govern the dependency interface. Where a program depends on a product feature or an engineering deliverable, manage that interface with logged needed-by dates.
    • Partner with product and engineering leaders across DSE and ANCHOR to resolve service overlap, drive build-versus-reuse decisions, and align competing priorities without direct authority.
    • Own the portfolio"s review and reporting standards, and set adoption, cost-avoidance, and efficiency metrics that make program impact measurable.
    • Contribute to annual planning (OP1/OP2) with clear investment and headcount proposals, and run a mechanism to capture voice of the customer from internal OTS employees and operational customers.

    A day in the life

    Your day moves between people leadership and portfolio delivery. You run 1:1s and coaching conversations with your TPMs, unblock a stalled program, and step into a red program to drive a decision with the owning TPM and their engineering counterparts. You review portfolio status and dependency risk, then join an architecture or prioritization discussion with Product and Engineering to set where service boundaries sit. In the afternoon you make trade-offs across competing priorities, prepare the monthly Kingpin review or the ServiceNow MPR for senior leadership, and draft the strategy and investment narratives that keep the portfolio funded. You build the mechanisms, the RACI, risk registers, dashboards, and review cadences, so the team can scale without you in every meeting.

    About the team

    OTS Delivery Software Engineering (DSE) is a product-engineering partnership responsible for every technology platform OTS field technicians and operations associates use daily. The team defines what to build, and a 50-plus person engineering org of AppDev, SysDev, and SDEs delivers it. DSE owns ServiceNow as its enterprise platform, builds AI agents on AWS Bedrock, and runs the technology behind a 24/7 Service Desk. The TPM team is the coordination layer between product vision and engineering execution across ESC, SPM, ITSM, the Idea Portal, routing, and release management on one platform. It partners with ANCHOR, Global Workforce Management (GWM), and the OTS and RME program teams.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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