Want to make impact to how millions of customers pay on Amazon every day? Are you a hands-on technical leader who can make a huge impact on a dynamic, fast moving business? Are you equally comfortable digging into business and financial requirements as you are drilling into architecture and design with development teams? Does the idea of helping manage Amazons growing financial products marketplace by building technical solutions at scale sound interesting? Then this is the position for you. Ke... more details
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Want to make impact to how millions of customers pay on Amazon every day? Are you a hands-on technical leader who can make a huge impact on a dynamic, fast moving business? Are you equally comfortable digging into business and financial requirements as you are drilling into architecture and design with development teams? Does the idea of helping manage Amazons growing financial products marketplace by building technical solutions at scale sound interesting? Then this is the position for you.
Key job responsibilities This role requires working closely with businesses across Amazon, the product management team, the credit development team, and key software development teams across the company to define strategy and requirements, and then lead projects through operations design and delivery. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential. The ideal candidate has thrived and succeeded in delivering broadly adopted technology products/services in a very high growth environment where priorities shift quickly. They are a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence. Qualified candidates have experience defining projects and features, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating large cross functional projects and schedules, and delivering complex projects with accurate results at high scale.
From a business and technical perspective, this TPM will: - Have a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services - A strong understanding of the Payments industry is desirable - Understand how to design scalable software - Be conversant with internet technologies - Communicate effectively with both business and technical partners - Have an entrepreneurial spirit
Professional traits which are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders: - Exhibits excellent judgment - Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo) - Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business - Delivers innovative solutions - Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to earn trust of others - Strong results orientation - Thinks big
A day in the life Technical Program Manager position in Amazon is a role reserved for the few outstanding technical leaders with exceptional accomplishments in program management. If you feel excited by the challenge of setting the course for large company-wide initiatives, launching customer facing products and being involved in the delivery of these initiatives, this may be the next big career move for you.
About the team At Amazon Payment Products, we delight our customers with rewards, credit and the simplicity to buy across borders. Amazon Payment Products (APP) serves tens of millions of customers worldwide through a global portfolio of products, delighting them with best-in-class rewards, easy access to credit as well as the simplicity to sell or buy cross-border on Amazon in their local currency. The global portfolio of products APP currently negotiates, builds, and manages includes Co-brand Credit Cards, Private Label Credit Cards, Shop with Points, Installments, and Amazon Currency Converter for Sellers and buyers. Under Amazons long-term commitment to innovating on behalf of customers, APP constantly seeks to launch new payment and financial services products, features and programs worldwide which make shopping on Amazon ever more rewarding and convenient for customers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience - 5+ years of technical product or program management experience - 3+ years of software development experience - 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience - Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience - Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules - Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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