The newly created Amazon’s Partnership Acceleration & Co-innovation Team is responsible for delivering corporate strategy, formulating strategic deals that accelerate the partnerships, and value maximizing through technical and business adoption. We are seeking an innovative, strategic, and results-oriented leader who will partner with the STO to manage the business operations and long term strategy for this impactful organization.

We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to own large, cross-organizational technical programs supporting strategic partnerships. These programs span multiple Amazon and AWS teams and require coordination across engineering, security, finance, legal, procurement, and business leadership.
In this role, you will translate partnership commitments into executable technical and operational plans, ensure solutions meet AWS architectural and operational standards, and provide clear, accurate communication to senior internal leaders and external partners.

The role requires deep, hands-on technical knowledge of AWS architectures and best practices, as well as exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Key job responsibilities

• Own complex, cross-org programs end-to-end

• Own program definition and delivery, including charter, success metrics, roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.

• Drive alignment across organizations that do not share reporting lines; manage competing priorities and unblock critical path issues.

• Ensure programs transition cleanly into steady-state ownership and operations.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural judgment

• Engage deeply on architecture, integration, and operational design across security, reliability, scalability, cost, and observability.

• Apply AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles to evaluate tradeoffs and identify gaps.

• Partner with architects, principal engineers, and service teams to converge on solutions that are robust, supportable, and operable.

• Executive communication and writing

• Own executive-ready narratives, including options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and clear decision asks.

• Produce high-quality written artifacts (one-pagers, six-pagers, decision memos, operating reviews).

• Communicate complex technical issues clearly to mixed audiences, including senior internal leaders and external partner executives.

• Proactively surface risks and manage expectations.

• Build mechanisms that scale

• Create and institutionalize mechanisms that improve cross-org execution, such as governance forums, decision logs, and readiness criteria.

• Identify recurring failure modes and address them through durable process, tooling, and ownership models.

• Raise program management maturity by improving planning, execution, and decision-making practices.

• Principal TPM scope

• Drive operating reviews and establish program health metrics.

• Build and maintain multi-quarter plans, dependency maps, and critical paths.

• Define team interfaces, launch criteria, operational handoffs, and runbooks.

• Manage delivery risk, including phased delivery, rollback planning, and launch readiness.

• Mentor TPMs and raise the bar through coaching and strong written narratives.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

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Inclusive Team Culture:

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Work/Life Balance

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience demonstrating technical breadth in AWS and/or cloud fundamentals
• Experience in verbal and written communication for executive level leaders
• 8+ years owning large-scale technical programs across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority in complex, ambiguous environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of defining and executing against program timeline & requirements experience
• Deep familiarity with AWS services and architectural best practices; experience applying Well-Architected principles in production environments.
• Experience delivering programs tied to strategic partnerships or enterprise commitments.
• Track record of building durable mechanisms that improve execution quality over time.

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. 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually