Want to transform the way people enjoy music, podcasts, radio, and audiobooks? Then come join the team that delivers the global audio experience on Alexa. Work with the world’s top audio partners (Apple, BBC, Spotify) to deliver industry leading experiences across a growing array of Alexa supported devices and countries, all while being at the forefront of Generative AI and LLM capabilities.

Come be a part of a growing team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Come work on first to market consumer-facing products, where every team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Come join a team where you'll have direct ownership and influence, setting the vision and path on how to bring our goals to reality.

As a Sr. Technical Program Manager on Alexa Audio, you are responsible for defining and delivering important technical programs aimed at enabling the audio experience for internal and external partners with broad cross-organizational, cross-regional, and significant business impact. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day relationships with key partners and conceptualizing, scoping, and delivering large projects end-to-end. Responsibilities include managing partner relationships, developing forward looking strategic road maps, understanding and translating customer needs into business and systems requirements, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the pre/post production launch. You will be expected to make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market needs, all while clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal and external teams. You frequently work with senior leadership within Amazon and our key external partners, so written and verbal skills are paramount.

• Key job responsibilities
• Take ownership of technical business problems, identify and execute possible short and long-term solutions.
• Work cross-functionally with business development, product, engineering, marketing, insights and analytics, legal, etc... to deliver programs effectively.
• Develop mechanisms, processes, and measurement of partner performance and org-wide scalability.
• Identify global stakeholder needs and implement prioritization frameworks.
• Contribute to the definition of our partner program technical strategy and execution.
• Partner with customers, internal teams, external stakeholders, and various other Amazon groups to define the roadmap and associated priority.
• Work directly with complex third party partners, managing relationships, external dependencies, and end-to-end program coordination.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 128,100.00 - 214,000.00 CAD annually