Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced amazing devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon
Echo, Hearables, Wearables, and Smart Eyewear. What will you help us create?
As a Sr. System TPM Manager, you manage a team of TPMs who lead the hardware engineering teams in developing products from concept to mass production. Your team owns the end-to-end schedule, reporting on engineering issues, defining mitigation strategies, leading cost down efforts, and keeping senior management up-to-date on progress. You are the single threaded owner for ensuring end to end delivery of a portfolio of devices, from ensuring we have proper staffing, planning, and budgets to deliver products to customers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. In this role, you will:
Manage multiple technical program managers
Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
Deep dive on key technical issues and lead teams to find solutions within program constraints
Own cross functional development schedules
Lead cross functional development on new technology from design through mass production, working across all hardware disciplines
Work with remote teams across the world and travel to Asia to complete prototype builds to test and validate our product designs.
Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and to drive key decision making
Manage resource prioritization, drive cost down efforts, look around corners to prevent common development pitfalls.
Lead key product development milestones following a waterfall style development within hardware.
Own budget planning and headcount staffing
About the team
We are a team of hardware TPMs with varying engineering backgrounds. We thrive at problem solving, driving leadership decisions, looking around corners, and leading teams to bring devices to market!
- 7+ years of people management experience
- 7+ years of technical program management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Experience in people management
- Experience in technical program management
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- 7+ years of work in internet-related program or technical product management in a software applications environment experience
- Knowledge of cloud computing services or deployment architecture
- Experience working in an internet-related program or technical product management in a software applications environment
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience with
agile or other program management methodologies
- Master's degree or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 223,900.00 - 302,900.00 USD annually