Principal Technical Program Manager, Alexa

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to organize drive and deliver Amazon-wide programs spanning multiple departments with visibility at the VP level. You should be passionate about Alexa Amazons most ambitious AI assistant and energized by driving cross-department cross-functional programs across distributed systems LLMs and critical infrastructure. This role requires perseverance strong technical acumen and exceptional collaboration skills to lead complex initiatives at scale across thousands of engineers.

Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for setting up driving championing and successfully delivering large initiatives spanning Alexa AWS and AGI across both device and cloud domains. You will:

- Work directly with VP and key Alexa executives
- Drive the program strategy for large-scale cross-organizational initiatives spanning Alexa AWS and AGI
- Own end-to-end delivery of programs that directly impact Alexas core experience across distributed systems LLMs and critical infrastructure
- Establish program frameworks governance models and operating mechanisms that scale across thousands of engineers in multiple organizations
- Identify and resolve systemic cross-organizational dependencies driving alignment across VP-level leadership when priorities conflict
- Define success metrics and accountability mechanisms focused on availability latency accuracy cost-effectiveness and operational excellence
- Influence technical architecture decisions to ensure programs are set up for long-term scalability and maintainability
- Communicate program status risks and strategic trade-offs to VP leadership; shape narratives for L10 reviews
- Build and maintain program roadmaps that connect tactical execution to long-term organizational strategy
- Partner with engineering science and QA leadership to ensure technical solutions meet quality and performance bars at scale

A day in the life
You operate at the intersection of strategy and execution spending your day navigating across organizational boundaries to drive Alexas most critical programs forward. You bring the technical curiosity and learning agility to ramp up on any domain LLMs distributed systems device firmware cloud infrastructure deeply enough to arbitrate technical disagreements and unblock teams when they cant resolve it themselves.

Strategic Leadership & VP Partnership

- Start the day syncing with your VP on program priorities escalations and strategic trade-offs you are their trusted partner in navigating cross-org complexity
- Shape the agenda for L10 leadership reviews framing technical programs in terms of customer impact and business outcomes
- Make judgment calls on where to invest your time: which escalations to own personally which to delegate and which to let teams resolve independently
Cross-Organizational Influence

- Drive alignment across Directors and VPs in Alexa AWS and AGI when organizations have competing priorities or conflicting technical approaches
- Facilitate high-stakes technical and strategic discussions not just driving consensus but making recommendations and influencing decisions
- Operate as the connective tissue between device cloud and AI/ML organizations translating constraints and priorities across domains
Technical Depth & Execution

- Learn technical domains quickly and deeply enough to arbitrate disagreements between engineering teams and unblock stalled decisions
- Deep-dive into technical designs architecture reviews and engineering plans understanding trade-offs well enough to broker the right path forward
- Identify systemic risks and dependencies that no single team can see then drive mitigation strategies across organizations
- Review program metrics (availability latency quality) and take action when trajectories diverge from targets
Driving Outcomes at Scale

- Unblock programs that are stuck whether the issue is technical organizational or political
- Hold teams accountable to commitments while maintaining the relationships that make cross-org collaboration work
- Continuously refine operating mechanisms knowing when a process is helping and when its become overhead

- 10 years of engineering experience
- 7 years of technical product or program management experience
- 5 years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience managing programs spanning engineering department with complex cross-dependencies concurrent workstreams and VP/Director-level stakeholder management
- Experience actively participating in and driving architecture and design decisions (design patterns reliability scaling) with the technical depth and engagement to challenge contribute and unblock rather than simply reviewing from the sidelines
- Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous large-scale platform initiatives into executable program plans with clear milestones and dependency chains
- Knowledge about Cloud operations and Architecture at scale
- Strong understanding of AI/ML LLMs and agentic systems with a track record of applying these technologies to improve team productivity at the program process or development level
- Strong written communication skills with experience authoring narratives program strategies and technical documents for senior leadership audiences
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related technical field or equivalent

- Experience with device-side technologies: operating systems device operations OTA updates firmware delivery pipelines
- Knowledge of capacity planning forecasting and infrastructure scaling
- Experience with language-side server architectures (NLU ASR TTS or LLM inference serving)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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