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# Technical Program Manager, Core Shopping

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27835760/Technical-Program-Manager-Core-Shopping-Washington-Seattle-7375

## About the Role

5+ years of technical product or program management experience

 - 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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

## Description

What if you could re-invent how millions of customers plan their shopping needs? We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive complex, cross-functional programs across the Amazon Lists portfolio. You will partner with engineering, product, design, and science teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences at scale, managing technical dependencies, timelines, and risks across multiple workstreams.. This is a high-impact role that requires someone with the bias for action, and high customer obsession to ensure we are delivering the right product for customers., **Program Execution**: Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale technical programs spanning multiple engineering teams, defining milestones, managing dependencies, and driving accountability

**Technical Strategy**: Partner with engineering leadership to define technical roadmaps, architecture decisions, and migration strategies (e.g., frontend modernization, service decomposition)

**Cross-Team Coordination**: Align dependencies with partner teams across Amazon to unblock delivery

**Risk Management**: Proactively identify, communicate, and mitigate risks; escalate when needed with data-driven recommendations

**Operational Excellence**: Drive improvements to development processes, release mechanisms, and operational health (COE follow-ups, on-call improvements, runbook hygiene)

**Mechanisms & Communication**: Establish program reviews, status reporting, and stakeholder communication rhythms; author program narratives (OP docs, planning docs, decision documents)

**Launch Coordination**: Manage end-to-end launches including A/B testing coordination, ramp plans, and go/no-go decisions

About the team
Amazon Lists helps hundreds of millions of customers organize and share the things they love - from wish lists and gift registries to idea boards and collections. We're entering a new chapter, applying state of the art AI to re-imagine how customers curate, discover, and connect through lists.


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