Principal Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Job summary
About Amazon Music:

Listen to any song, anywhere, with Amazon Music. Our customers get new releases, curated playlists, and classic hits with their mobile devices, Alexa, PCs, and TVs. Over 90 million songs. Podcasts are included at no additional cost. With several service tiers, we provide everything from an ad-supported experience to an unlimited tier with HD and spatial formats like Dolby Atmos. Engaging with music and culture has never been easier. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com (http://amazonmusic.com/) or download the Amazon Music app

As a Principal Technical Program Manager at Amazon Music, you will have the opportunity to work closely with product, design, software development and platform teams to implement strategy and execution. You will collaborate with the product teams to deliver the best solutions with efficient use of resources and technologies. You will make strong business cases for project prioritization and investment. You will also assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and inspire risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit. If you enjoys solving problems in a dynamic environment and influencing business and technical leaders with your creative solutions, we want to talk to you!

A day in the life
As a Principal TPM, you will manage large initiatives and communicate progress and outcomes effectively to Directors and VPs. You'll own the delivery of the Playback Experience (PBX) team's most complex projects. In partnership with product and engineering teams, you'll use your excellent technical judgment to define goals, prioritize features, and own the milestones that help us deliver results. As a leader in PBX, you'll also help us refine and streamline our processes; helping make them a model for other teams in Music and pillar for your influence within the larger organization.

About the team
Be part of the Playback Experience team (PBX) at Amazon Music. We make music happen. Our clients and services are the critical link between your devices-Echo, iOS, Android, Fire TV-and the Amazon Music catalog with over 90 million songs. Our mission is the fast, flawless, and secure delivery and playback of music for our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Architectural design or system design experience independent of an architect
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience driving roadmap strategy and definition
• 7+ years of technical program management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 5+ years' experience as a technical program manager leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex software projects
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science
• Professional experience as a software developer
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience with project delivery for large, cross functional projects involving partner teams inside and outside your organization
• Drive implementation and delivery of large-scale Music initiatives.
• Lead agile engineering and design teams to coordinate, prioritize and deliver to a daring roadmap

This position is also eligible for someone sitting in Los Angeles, or Atlanta.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g32k15-3-138-138-144-42 in your application.