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Amazon Advertising is searching for a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead its efforts in building an Ad Technology suite. As the P-TPM for Ad Tech, you’ll be responsible for developing and managing mechanisms that ship features successfully. This includes working with product management, engineering, marketing, sales, operations, and other teams to plan what their contributions to features will be, tracking progress of those, and identifying how to streamline all of the above.

The ideal candidate earns trust through performance and relationship building, thinks strategically and analytically about business challenges, can synthesize customer needs into new policy, standards, and technology solutions to meet business objectives. The candidate will build and lead with a bias towards problem solving, a passion for identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, and the foresight to anticipate business needs, make trade-offs, and balance business dynamics despite constraints.

The right candidate has a strong record of delivering results timely and effectively. You should have experience managing complex global programs in large, multi-national, preferably tech organizations. The ideal candidate has broad technical skills, strong financial acumen, sales strategy experience, and a background in digital advertising. Strong judgement, ability to manage through ambiguity and complexity as well as a demonstrated ability to influence without explicit authority are key to success.

Preference for this position to be in one of the following locations: Toronto ON or Boulder CO.

Key Responsibilities:

· Partner with leadership across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations to develop and deploy a comprehensive program portfolio strategy, aimed at shortening the planning cycle and paving the way for continuous iteration and improvement of programs.

· Lead team functioning as primary interface and communication hub for Strategic Sales Initiatives (strategy, operating model and areas of improvement).

· Identify and explore opportunities to use automation, machine learning and other technologies to improve the creation and implementation of go to market models.

· Lead the development, implementation and execution of process improvement initiatives, including identification of business process gaps, impact assessment, and recommendations.

· Represent business needs in the development of technical roadmaps, priorities and requirements, ensuring support of business need in the near and long term.

· Lead cross functional initiatives to identify technology dependencies and handoffs, and partner with technology teams to ensure seamless flow of data and functionality need to support the process end to end.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience

• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.