Calling all inventors to work on exciting new opportunities in Sponsored Ads.

Amazon is building a world class advertising business and defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth. Sponsored Ads helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grows incremental sales of their products sold on Amazon through native advertising. Sponsored Ads achieves this by using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.

If you are looking to make an impact, this is the team for you. You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, which will give you the flexibility to develop systems and services from the ground up. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers while driving quantifiable revenue impact. As Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Sponsored Ads, you will help build new advertising experience from the ground up and create and launch features for both advertisers and shoppers globally. You will partner with engineers, product managers, other TPMs, and senior management to help create these world-class solutions. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to grow and broaden your technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and collaboration.


Key job responsibilities
A TPM will partner with engineers, other TPMs, and senior management to help create world-class solutions. Part of your responsibilities will include:

* Manage cross-team, cross-organization, and cross company delivery of long-term customer-facing programs.
* Manage business requirements, design, performance expectations and goals with all stakeholder teams.
* Partner with other leaders to define business and architectural strategy and build roadmaps for the programs you and your team own.
* Be responsible for the overall coordination, quality and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run.
* Manage prioritization and tradeoffs across engineering, customers, and time to market.
* Drive architecture, engineering and integration decisions and timelines with dependency teams.
* Establish business processes and policies as well as metrics and indicators for success.
* Develop, report, and continually improve business performance metrics.
* Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
* Translate customer’s business requirements into technical/functional specifications for the engineers
* Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
* Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment for sales and marketing
* Capture, share and leverage your best practice knowledge across a broad group of engineers throughout all subsidiaries
* Drive customer outcomes!