Sr. Technical Program Manager, Frontier AI Assets (FAI)

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager, Frontier AI Assets (FAI) in Boston, United States. It pays $149k-$201k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions program management, data quality and cross functional leadership among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a senior role.
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AI in this role

Drive program strategy and tooling solutions to improve data quality for AI model development and evaluation. schist

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Amazon's Frontier AI Assets (FAI) team works to improve the quality of data used to develop and evaluate AI models. We draw on subject-matter expertise from a range of sources to help assess and improve the data that supports our AI work. The program requires coordination across multiple teams, effective dependency management, and continuous process improvement to deliver high-quality results.

This TPM role's scope includes defining program strategy, streamlining processesacross teams, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through delivery. You will be accountable for researching relevant industry trends, identifying gaps in current processes, and communicating your vision for improvements to senior leaders. You will work closely with science and engineering teams to support high-quality outcomes. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control. Success requires strong verbal and written communication. Cross-team coordination, project and program management and executive presentation skills are essential.

Key job responsibilities
The Sr. Technical Program Manager will interact with expert contributors, creators, cross partner teams, tooling owners - multiple stakeholders and leadership to deliver complex projects and programs. You will anticipate bottlenecks in the expert program workflow, provide escalation management, make trade-off decisions, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.

Successful candidates will have technical skills to design and implement process and tooling solutions. Successful candidates will also have a strong technical background, be detail driven and have excellent problem solving abilities. You will have a deep understanding of quality assessments for data, and will successfully represent technical requirements to senior leadership. Your technical expertise and operational excellence will influence the team's decisions and drive robust solutions for expert data collection. They are responsible for bridging experts, technology, process and operations to achieve the right results.

A day in the life
- Collaborate with internal partners to understand their business priorities, communicate outcomes and define roadmaps.
- Define metrics and performance indicators and establish mechanisms to drive them.
- Dive deep into anecdotes and data to find patterns and root causes of problems.
- Dive deep into science, technology and process to identify problems and create solutions. Advocate for improvements to systems and processes that will benefit our teams / stakeholders and business partners.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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.

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, MA, Boston - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Frontier AI Assets (FAI) at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● 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, Frontier AI Assets (FAI) is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $149k-$201k a year.
The role is based in US, MA, Boston.
The job was posted on September 15, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Program ManagementData QualityCross Functional LeadershipProcess ImprovementAI Evaluation

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where program management was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where data quality 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 process improvement was part of your work. What did you do?
How do you decide that one model's output is better than another's for a given task?

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