Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Customer Service
Description Are you excited by the idea of being part of the world's #1 Amazon Customer Service (CS) team?
Do you want to innovate using engineering, massive data, and machine learning algorithms? If your answer is yes, then Amazon's Customer Central Technology (CHEX) team is the place for you.
We are a diverse, cross-disciplinary team of builders who are rapidly innovating in advanced user experience research, machine learning, security, and distributed systems to help customers solve problems faster, more easily, and in their preferred way of interacting with Amazon.
Customer Service
Technology systems form the core of Amazon's customer service infrastructure. We integrate with teams across Amazon's entire business and are the experts in using technology to create exceptional service experiences for customers.Our team is seeking Senior Technical Program Managers to manage large, cross-functional programs that support Customer Service Operations worldwide. In this role, you will be responsible for driving large cross-team projects that span multiple technology and operational teams.
As a Senior TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, escalate effectively, make trade-offs, and balance business needs against technical constraints. You will be expected to take large, complex projects, break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, and deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, ability to employ scalable mechanisms, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
Key job responsibilities
- Managing the lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs.
- Focus on managing a single product in a critical technology area and/or managing larger initiatives that span organizations or geographies in support of broader customer service business objectives.
- Responsible for the delivery of large and complex projects, ensuring successful execution and completion.
- Contribute to and develop OP1/OP2 narratives and take ownership of organizational goals.
- Accountable for developing and implementing overall strategy and driving teams inside and outside of the organization to deliver results.
- Define programs (including mission, vision, and tenets), set objectives, analyze data, drive improvements that are quantified with metrics, and influence resource allocation.
The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plan.
We partner with the larger CS organization by driving Security, Operational Excellence, raising the bar on User Experience, and owning a set of assets that enable the building of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality to serve our CS customers. Our organization defines the strategy for the contact handling experience across all Customer Service verticals and subsidiary companies, such as Audible.
We own the development of solutions for Consumer services and provide guidance for other verticals to build within our framework. Our work scales to support service in 52 countries and 25 languages. These solutions cover all contact methods: Phone, Email, and Chat.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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
- 5+ years of project management disciplines inclu