Sr. Program Manager Tech - Videos & Immersive Experience

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About Amazon Music

As a Technical Program Manager for the Amazon Music team, you will collaborate with the product teams to deliver the best solutions with efficient use of resources and technologies. 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 enjoy solving problems in a dynamic environment and influencing business and technical leaders with your creative solutions, we want to talk to you.

You possess a deep understanding of product design and implementation details and will successfully represent the technical team to senior leadership and partners. Your technical expertise and operational excellence will influence the team's decisions and drive secure and robust solutions. You should not only be passionate about delivering great music experiences, but should also be obsessed with driving continuous process improvements to optimize product delivery

Responsibilities:
• Drive implementation and delivery of large-scale Music voice initiatives.
• Lead agile engineering and design teams to coordinate, prioritize and deliver to a daring roadmap
• Understand service inter-dependencies and lead cross-functional teams towards technical solutions for multi-tiered systems
• Clarify, prioritize and drive project commitments as well as establish and maintain clear chains of accountability
• Articulate program goals, desired outcomes, risks/issues and mitigation plan clearly
• Mentor junior employees and build effective teams
• Support and enhance existing products with thoughtful and measurable impact

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• 5+ years of technical program management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience building and launching consumer software products in streaming domain on utiple platforms like mobile, big screens, web, desktop, echo devices & 3P devices.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities in an energizing environment
• Customer relationship skills including the ability to discover true requirements, underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet bold timelines with optimal solutions
• A deep understanding of the SDLC and consistent record of achieving program objectives on schedule, on budget and meeting quality criteria
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for program success

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp063o-18-222-111-24-42 in your application.