Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads AI Core Infrastructure

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads AI Core Infrastructure in New York, United States. It pays $164k-$221k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this role: the job is building AI systems.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, AI agents and technical program management.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
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AI in this role

Leads strategic programs and core infrastructure development for agentic AI and generative advertising systems.

AWS

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At Amazon Ads, we’re re-imagining the advertising landscape through advanced generative AI technologies and AI agents, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands online. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

The Amazon Advertising team is seeking a highly skilled Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead strategic programs for Amazon Ads' AI infrastructure core services that accelerate agentic AI development. This role requires deep technical knowledge in AI/ML systems, AWS technologies, distributed infrastructure, and agentic frameworks, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams building foundational services that enable product teams to ship agents in weeks instead of months. As a TPM, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing agentic AI core infra product roadmap, driving agent builder adoption through seamless onboarding experiences, influencing technical and business stakeholders across Ads organizations, and ensuring the core services scales to support multi-agent workflows, stateful runtime, and production-grade reliability for advertiser- facing and internal agents.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership: Drive the end-to-end delivery of large-scale agentic AI programs, ensuring alignment with Amazon Advertising’s long-term business and technical goals.
• Stakeholder Influence: Partner with leaders, stakeholders, and internal agent builder teams to align on priorities, drive consensus, and deliver impactful agentic core infra solutions that scale globally.
• Solution Architecture: Collaborate with engineering, product from agent and skill builder teams to onboard and utilize agentic core infra to accelerate their roadmaps.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Define KPIs and metrics to measure program success, identify areas for improvement, and provide transparent, actionable updates to leadership through detailed reporting and insights.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the key connection point between engineering, business teams, ensuring alignment, effective communication, and seamless execution.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 163,600.00 - 221,300.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads AI Core Infrastructure at Amazon rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Ads AI Core Infrastructure is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $164k-$221k a year.
The role is based in US, NY, New York.
The job was posted on September 10, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agentsTechnical Program ManagementGenerative AIAI InfrastructureDistributed SystemsAgentic FrameworksAWS

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