Job Description
Amazon's External Fulfillment Technology enables Amazon businesses and third party sellers and warehouse providers to run Fulfillment Centers (FCs) leveraging Amazon's expertise in fulfillment planning and optimization. Our team is chartered with making the Amazon Fulfillment Tech's WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) accessible and flexible for emerging markets and businesses.
Our WMS enables fulfillment of millions of items WW each day. We are investing in several new initiatives to scale our platforms, including building next generation external fulfillment solutions that expand our current footprint across third party-managed warehouses as well as Amazon fulfillment network.
We are looking for a Technical Program Manager who is passionate about building scalable systems in our space. In this role, you will large complex projects and have the opportunity to work with engineers (including PEs and Sr. PEs) within Fulfillment Tech and supply chain optimization.
You will solve for architectural challenges in making large volumes of constantly changing data available to various applications owned by diverse customers (internal and external) and business use cases, as well as innovative solutions for managing data quality and in complex event processing. You will be empowered to think big and invent on behalf of our customers, make high judgment calls to keep teams moving and find simple solutions to hard problems. You will leverage your engineering skill set and expertise across multiple initiatives, as well as go own large projects where you get to dive deep to solve. You will influence senior business and technical leaders to deliver these critical business goals through our solutions.
Key job responsibilities
You will join a team in a startup mode with a group of highly passionate engineers that are developing fulfillment solutions, and:
1. Own complex, cross-organization programs that are transforming our products and constantly improving customer experience worldwide.
2. Drive alignment across senior leaders, engineering teams, and product managers.
3. Collaborate with other TPMs and SDMs on roadmaps, priorities, planning, dependency mapping, forecasting, and tradeoffs.
4. Facilitate regular program meetings and provide updates to senior leadership on project status, milestones, and adjustments
5. Engage with Sr. SDEs and Principal Engineers to evaluate technical decisions.
6. Lead the building of scalable, tier-1, AWS-based platforms.
7. Partner with other senior leaders in developing product design, tech solutions, project plans etc to launch our next generation orchestration platform.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.
External Fulfillment
AFT’s External Fulfillment team builds flexible, scalable solutions specifically designed for the needs of Amazon’s emerging markets and businesses.
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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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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Job Tags
Temporary work, Seasonal work, Remote job, Worldwide, Flexible hours,