Principal Tech Program Manager, Personalization

Amazon's Personalization team is responsible for tailoring the experience of every customer on Amazon's most prominent pages, billions of times a day. Utilizing state of the art machine learning techniques, we build highly scalable, real-time systems that determine the content customers see across the Amazon ecosystem.

As a TPM, you will work with a team of engineers designing and implementing advance page optimization systems, inventing ways to multiply the rate of innovation across the company on behalf of our customers. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to assimilate a large number of inputs from stakeholders, develop cohesive designs and functional specs, prioritize and deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. You will clearly communicate goals, requirements, roadmaps, and timelines to internal cross-functional and remote project teams. You are entrepreneurial, innovative, and thrive on solving complex problems. Maturity, sound business and technical judgement, negotiation skills, ability to influence, and leadership are essential to success in this role.

You will have a unique opportunity with large scope and responsibility - you will directly impact and help manage features generating billions of dollars of revenue per year. You will collaborate with teams and leaders across the entire company, including the most strategic programs, and gain exposure to many aspects of the Amazon business. You will be a part of a fast paced, growing research and development team. If you want to help build the future of personalized merchandising on Earth's biggest online retailer, we would love to talk to you!

About the team

Amazon's Personalization organization is a group that leverages Amazon's expertise in machine learning, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our team's culture is centered on rigorous experimentation and data-driven decision-making. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon's internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of engineering experience

- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience

- 5+ years of software development experience

- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

- Experience in hands-on work managing complex technology projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience

- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

- 3+ years of full product life cycle experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at

USA, WA, Seattle - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually