Senior Technical Program Manager, Ads Brand Safety and Suitability
Amazon is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager, Ads Brand Safety and Suitability in London, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include program management, ad serving and vendor integration.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 20,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
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Senior Technical Program Manager driving brand safety and suitability initiatives for advertising infrastructure, coordinating with science and engineering teams.
We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager who possesses stakeholder management, program management, and well-rounded technical capabilities. You will drive the execution of complex, cross-organizational programs that protect advertiser trust at scale - including vendor integrations, enhancing capabilities across evolving supply types such as CTV, audio and gaming. You will work across multiple teams with evolving priorities, define clarity where ambiguity exists, and make trade-offs to drive program delivery. As a Sr. TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. You will work across engineering, science, product, policy, legal, and external partners to deliver programs that directly impact advertiser confidence.
Key job responsibilities
Program Execution & Delivery
- Drive end-to-end execution across engineering and science teams
- Own delivery of cross-organizational initiatives
- Define program milestones, manage dependencies across all stakeholders, and drive teams to deliver on commitments
Technical Depth & Architecture Influence
- Understand the real-time ad serving infrastructure
- Evaluate technical proposals, identify risks in system design, and ensure appropriate trade-offs.
- Drive technical integration programs with third-party vendors.
- Partner with science teams on ML model deployment experimentation frameworks, and signal validation.
Stakeholder Management & Cross-Org Alignment
- Manage relationships and alignment across senior leaders and stakeholders
- Drive executive communications through monthly and quarterly updates, and escalate to leadership effectively as needed.
- Navigate competing priorities across advertiser protection, publisher relationships, and business growth imperatives
- Represent Brand Safety programs in cross-org forums
Operational Excellence
- Create mechanisms that ensure long-term program success with or without direct involvement — documentation, runbooks, audit trails
- Own program-level metrics and reporting for leadership visibility
A day in the life
You will work with cross functional stakeholders across engineering, product and data science leadership to define engineering and product strategy. You will deliver state of the art machine learning based technical solutions that will power several contextual advertising products across Amazon Ads.
Basic qualifications
- Experience in technical product or program management
- Experience in software development
- Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
- 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
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How we rate this
Senior Technical Program Manager, Ads Brand Safety and Suitability at Amazon rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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