Technical Program Manager, Hardware Development

Amazon is hiring a Technical Program Manager, Hardware Development in Shanghai, China. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Lead inter-disciplinary teams to conceive, design, and execute innovative consumer electronics and hardware products.

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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 groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

As a Hardware Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced inter-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team together to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, test and delivery. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

The Hardware Technical Program Manager will lead internal inter-disciplinary teams through the product execution phase process. The candidate will work with oversea team to create the project plan, including the schedule. You will work with the Product Manager to derive the product requirements and obtain executive approval. The Hardware Technical Program Manager will drive and motivate the cross-functional team to deliver the product(s) as per the agreed-to requirements and cross-functionally manage other internal team members. The Hardware Technical Program Manager will be responsible for the coordination, and provide assistance planning of all engineering builds at the supplier and driving the configuration management deliverables to ensure the timely release of all assemblies to production. In this role, you will:
· Drive execution of projects
· Lead cross functional project meetings
· Lead milestone reviews
· Present project status to the executive team
· Provide Suggestion for managing project builds globally

This position will require domestic and international travel.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- Solid understanding of product development process; Proficient at creating and tracking complex development schedules, managing issues and tracking bugs

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Technical Program Manager, Hardware Development at Amazon rates 0 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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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Technical Program Manager, Hardware Development is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in CN, 31, Shanghai.
The job was posted on August 4, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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