Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management

Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management - Kindle Devices

Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device, the #1 best-selling product on all of Amazon, and one of the most innovative and fast growing businesses at Amazon. Amazon has also developed significant digital and mobile businesses including Amazon MP3, Amazon Instant Video, IMDb, Amazon Mobile store, and Audible. Many of these applications run on a range of mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and WebOS. Are you a hands-on leader that can make a huge impact on Amazon's ability to innovate? Are you equally comfortable digging in to business requirements as drilling into architecture and design with development teams? Does the idea of working on new mobile platforms and cloud services sound exciting and challenging? Do you enjoy being in on the ground floor of new opportunities and building the team and the processes to make them successful? Then this is the position for you. Amazon's Digital division needs a world class Sr. Manager of Technical Program Management to own and launch new consumer devices and services. As a Sr. Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of Technical Program Managers responsible for all aspects of new product programs including design, development, test, launch and support of a range of mobile platforms. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems. Key Responsibilities: Overall responsibility for product roadmap in a specific area of development Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the TPM team within an Agile environment Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class TPM team Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs and approach Work closely with exec and product management to ensure products provide an outstanding customer experience in all aspects. Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.