Job summary
Do you want to re-invent the way that Alexa helps customers shop? Come join our team! Alexa is a strategic investment for Amazon, and we aim to deliver a voice and touch shopping assistant that is so convenient that customers worldwide will use Alexa every day. Alexa Shopping aims for Alexa to understand the needs of all shoppers regardless of language, background, abilities or economic means. We create convenient time savers for busy customers and their households across shopping journeys.

Responsibilities include collection of business and systems requirements, writing specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing the production launch. You will lead and coordinate design and implementation efforts between teams across Amazon to develop optimal solutions for new features, verticals, and marketplaces. You will be expected to make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.

As a Principal TPM you will be expected to:
· Own programs with significant complexity with broad cross-organizational and/or deep architectural impact.
· Drive large engineering efforts that solve significantly difficult problems with complete independence.
· Identify risks/opportunities in technical strategies, architecture(s), in engineering organization structure(s).
· Improve how organizations interact to achieve business and technology goals.
· Create and optimize cross-organizational structures and mechanisms to ensure long-term success.
· Decompose complex processes into simple, straightforward solutions.
· Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
· Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
· Scope, plan, implement and deliver projects and programs, and collaborate with Program Managers and senior leaders to align with strategic vision and goals
· Drive projects cross functionally, build partnerships with other organizations, and work proactively with business teams to ensure security objectives are met
· Integrate information security into organizational development and processes
· Establish metrics and regular reporting mechanisms
· Support deep dive assessments and ad-hoc data analysis requests
· Deliver findings, recommendations and remediation steps for all activities
· Drive, mature, and improve organizational security, risk identification and remediation processes, and risk tracking mechanisms
· Bring innovative ideas, finding better ways of engaging our customers and service owners, and solving problems

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
· 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
· 7+ years of technical program management experience
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to simplify complex topics for broad audiences, both business and technical teams.
· Capable of taking initiative and working with minimal direction; a self-starter even when assignments are vague or undefined.
· High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
· Security knowledge on current threats, trends and mitigations
· Skilled in risk management, business risk analysis and making complex business/risk trade-off recommendations and decisions
· Maturity, judgment, and proven ability to lead and influence others
· Independently driven, resourceful, and able to deliver results with minimal direction

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· An advanced technical degree or MBA
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.



Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates