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Principal TPM, Leo Commerce TPM
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What they do
A Technical Program Manager oversees all aspects of technical projects for their organization. They focus on overseeing the development, implementation, and delivery of technical solutions or products, often involving software development, hardware engineering, or IT infrastructure. They may be responsible for initiating programs, monitoring their progress, and providing technical support if issues arise.
$203,684 / year median in Washington
Job Description
Description Do you want to be part of a team that is building industry-changing technology? Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. Join Leo Commerce Org as a Principal Technical Program Manager where you'll define and deliver programs with broad cross-organizational and cross-business impact that determine how Leo Commerce scales from launch to sustained global operations. This role demands someone who can drive clarity where the business and architectural strategy has not yet been defined
- and where the problem itself may not be known before starting. As Principal TPM, you'll operate with complete independence to identify and solve significantly complex, endemic problems that span multiple VP organizations. You will own program strategy end-to-end
- defining the mission, vision, tenets, and long-term priorities
- while decomposing complex challenges into straightforward solutions that work across countries, architectures, and organizations.
Leo Commerce:
- Own end-to-end strategy for significantly complex programs in spaces where business and architectural direction is undefined
- Decompose endemic problems into straightforward solutions; eliminate repetitive cross-team effort through architecture or organizational changes
- Build consensus across VP-level stakeholders; influence technology direction and resource allocation with data-driven judgment
- Manage executive-level escalations; represent complex trade-offs clearly to leaders up to 3 levels above
- Create durable mechanisms that ensure programs succeed long-term without your direct involvement
- Steer teams away from prior technology failure patterns
- Amplify impact through mentoring, promotion assessments, and TPM community development
- You bring deep technical knowledge of commerce/distributed systems and apply it to invent, simplify, and evolve technologies.
- This role is located in Redmond, WA.
Export Control Requirement:
Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Basic Qualifications- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience optimizing for short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
- 177,000.00
- 239,400.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plans
- Mental Health
- Health and Wellness Programs