Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Smart Home
Amazon is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Smart Home in Bengaluru, India. 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 technical program management, cross functional leadership and system design.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 21,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
- The role was posted within the past week.
AI in this role
Manages complex, cross-functional technical programs to deliver innovative smart home features and experiences for Alexa.
Do you enjoy the challenge and ownership that comes from driving complex, cross-functional and cross-organizational projects? Are you equally comfortable digging into business requirements, product planning, and drilling into technical architecture and design? This job may be for you!
Key job responsibilities
This role requires hands-on project management skills, deep technical expertise, and excellent leadership skills. You will be responsible for collecting requirements from internal and external customers, driving projects from design to release, and managing the production launch. In this role, you will:
- Work with engineers and technical leaders to identify best practices for building resilient systems
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with technical and non-technical teams and stakeholders
- Drive effective cross-functional teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitments across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
- Participate in and support system design
- Own successful delivery of large, impactful, and highly cross-functional program initiatives while simultaneously tracking a set of smaller projects
- Lead and contribute to weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews, able to create, maintain and disseminate clear and concise program updates to stakeholders across multiple organizations
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs with technical constraints
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to develop program and product requirements
A day in the life
You will work with product and partner stakeholders to define customer facing features. You'll manage feature delivery from end to end by guiding product, engineering, QA and partners. You'll dive into customer experience, requirements, engineering plans. You'll guide the product, engineering, science and operations teams to develop experiences at the edge, in the cloud, and integrate them into consumer services.
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 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 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
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.
How we rate this
Sr. Technical Program Manager, Alexa Smart Home at Amazon rates 10 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.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● 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.
Prepare for this job
Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.
Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where technical program management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cross functional leadership was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where system design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where stakeholder management was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Technical Program Management, Cross Functional Leadership, System Design, Software Development, and Stakeholder Management. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Want an expert to read your CV for this job?
Free. Send your CV and the role you want next. We reply by email within 2 to 4 business days.
Get new product jobs by email
One email a week with the new product jobs, each rated for how much AI is in the work. No recruiter spam, unsubscribe in one click.
Free. One email a week. Unsubscribe in one click.
Similar roles
Product roles that involve little AI, at other companies.
What kind of AI work fits you?
Answer 12 practical questions in about three minutes. Get a simple profile, the work it points to, and live roles to explore next.
Find my next step