Sr. System Technical Program Manager, Amazon Devices - Hardware

Amazon.com, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
19 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$171,000.0 - $231,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Hardware Design Information Technology

Job description

As a Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. In this role, you will:

  • Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
  • Deep dive on key technical issues and lead teams to find solutions within program constraints
  • Own cross functional development schedules
  • Lead cross functional development on new technology from design through mass production, working across all hardware disciplines
  • Work with remote teams across the world and travel to Asia to complete prototype builds to test and validate our product designs.
  • Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and to drive key decision making
  • Manage resource prioritization, drive cost down efforts, look around corners to prevent common development pitfalls.
  • Lead key product development milestones following a waterfall style development within hardware.

About the team

We are a team of hardware TPMs with varying engineering backgrounds. We thrive at problem solving, driving leadership decisions, looking around corners, and leading teams to bring devices to market!

Requirements

  • 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
  • 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
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
  • 3+ years hardware design or development experience, consumer electronics preferred, * 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
  • Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
  • 5+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience, or a Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

Benefits & conditions

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, CA, Sunnyvale - 171,000.00 - 231,400.00 USD annually

About the company

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 amazing devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Hearables, Wearables, and Smart Eyewear. What will you help us create?

As a System TPM, you lead the hardware engineering teams in developing products from concept to mass production. You own the end-to-end schedule, report on engineering issues, define mitigation strategies, lead cost down efforts, and keep senior management up-to-date on progress. You are the single threaded owner for ensuring end to end delivery of a device.

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