Sr. Technical Program Manager, Selection Monitoring

Amazons Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger by powering the World Product Catalog. Our systems process billions of products to algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon and programmatically add them to the Amazon catalog. We apply parallel processing machine learning and deep learning algorithms to evaluate products and brands in order to identify and prioritize products and brands we should add to Amazons catalog. Teams across Amazon worldwide consume our datasets and systems to improve: product information search and discoverability pricing and delivery experience. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) systems to mine the web and automatically create structured entities from un-structure/semi-structured data. We constantly stretch the boundaries of large-scale distributed systems Elastic Computing Big Data and SOA technologies to tackle challenges at Amazons global scale.
Come join us in our journey to make everything and yes we do mean *everything* that anyone wants to buy available on Amazon!

The ideal candidate will have excellent product management program management problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all addition the ability to work backwards and think about the program from a customer perspective is crucial.

Key job responsibilities
- Understand your customers and their pain points; work with your users and stakeholders to find solutions that help them enable their scenarios.
- Drive execution of cross-team and cross-org projects from inception to launch formulate product vision and strategy define and prioritize road maps define user stories.
- Work closely with software development teams on defining designing and delivering high-quality products; provide feedback on architecture design and priorities.
- Engage with teams across Amazon to evangelize your teams products and build relationships.
- Identify assess and mitigate risks provide escalation management anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs vs. constraints
- Clearly communicate plan and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders

- 5 years of technical product or program management experience
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3 years of software development experience
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules

- 5 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 148700.00 - 201200.00 USD annually