Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Ads PubTech

Join our PubTech (Publisher Technologies) team to lead complex, high-impact technical programs that shape how publishers monetize and improve their customer experiences across the globe. You'll work on large-scale engineering initiatives that solve endemic problems, operating with independence while partnering with leadership across the organization to define strategy, build consensus, and drive meaningful organizational change.

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager who will be responsible for defining and delivering programs with significant complexity and/or that have broad cross-organizational, global, or technology impact. Your work will focus on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex or endemic problems. You will be trusted to operate with complete independence and are often assigned to focus on areas where the business and/or architectural strategy has not yet been defined.

Key job responsibilities

- You effectively partner with all levels of leadership.

- You are adept at building consensus.

- You are able to represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leaders up to 3 levels above to help them understand the decisions they have to make and what options they have.

- You influence organization priorities, system owners, business, and technology direction.

- You manage cross-functional communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed and needs aligned.

- You recognize when current programs are susceptible to prior technology failure patterns and actively steer teams to avoid repeating these failures. You know when a design or solution requires additional technical guidance (e.g., from senior engineers or subject matter experts).

- You show excellent judgment in driving executive-level escalations.

- You deliver solutions that meet Amazon high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence.

- You amplify your impact by educating the TPM and engineering communities (e.g., in your organization, at your location, or more broadly) on program management best practices. You participate, sharing knowledge and collaborating with other TPMs, specifically attending and/or presenting at internal conferences.

About the team

The PubTech team builds and operates extensible services that empower publishers (1p and 3p) to improve the monetization of their customer experiences, along with the experiences themselves. We bias toward standards-based and flexible designs that allow publishers the ability to invent on top of our solutions and to interoperate well with other advertising technology providers; both internal and external.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

- 7+ years of technical program management experience

- 5+ years of software development experience

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

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

- Experience in publisher, ad tech or agency ad serving systems like Ad Manager 360 or FreeWheel

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, TX, Austin - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually

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