Highlights
As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will own the mechanisms by which the organization plans its work and delivers it - the planning cadence, the commitment process, and the reporting that tells leadership and partners where every effort stands. Own the commitment mechanism - the process by which teams commit to work for a given delivery window, with the tooling and discipline to make a clear "committed or not" answer stick.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Irvine, CA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
The Device OS Team builds the OS components which enable internal and external partners to launch Applications, Services, and Devices that our customers love.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will own the mechanisms by which the organization plans its work and delivers it - the planning cadence, the commitment process, and the reporting that tells leadership and partners where every effort stands.
The Role:
Work with key stakeholders in product management and engineering to define how the organization commits to work and delivers it against a predictable schedule.
Own the planning events where teams decide and validate what they are delivering, and drive clear, honest commitment decisions out of them.
Maintain the mapping from roadmap to delivery schedule so every planned outcome has a home and every delivery has a clear set of commitments.
Communicate regularly with senior management as the single source of truth on status, risks, and change control across all efforts in flight.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the commitment mechanism - the process by which teams commit to work for a given delivery window, with the tooling and discipline to make a clear "committed or not" answer stick.
- Run the recurring planning cadence from preparation through facilitation to the decisions that come out of it, anticipating bottlenecks and providing escalation management.
- Make tradeoffs while balancing business needs with technical constraints, and hold teams to honest commitments without being pulled off course by any single deadline.
- Create mechanisms to drive timely, accurate, and comprehensive execution. Create clarity, eliminate obstacles, and drive issue resolution so deliverables and timelines are met. Drive continuous improvement so the delivery mechanisms get better over time.
- Serve as the single source of truth on cross-effort status - accurate, trend-aware, and honest about risk - for leadership and the partners who depend on the platform.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering teams.
About the team
The Device OS team invents ways to help customers develop complex applications deployed on multiple device types. Release Management is the function that turns a continuous stream of engineering work into stable, predictable delivery the teams who build on the platform can plan against.
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.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
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.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles