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# Sr. Technical Program Manager, Shopping Core Foundations - BuyForMe

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $148,700.0 - $201,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models, Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions (SDES), Virtual Agents
- **Published:** June 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=11eb722a3e20d8f8

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Technical product management within tech?, * 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, * 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

We are building the next generation of autonomous AI agents that enable Amazon customers to seamlessly discover and purchase products across the open web. Our systems operate in highly dynamic real-world environments, navigating thousands of third-party merchant experiences with production-grade reliability, scalability, and safety.

This role sits at the intersection of Agentic AI, LLMs, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning, and large-scale distributed systems. As a Senior TPM, you will work closely with product mgmt, science and engineering teams to plan and launch systems and shopping partner experiences.

In this role, you will:

 * Work on autonomous AI agents operating in open-world environments rather than static benchmarks.
 * Coordinate project launch dependencies across multiple teams including external partners
 * Own and drive business and tech metrics for the program and technology
 * Own WBRs, MBRs and updates to senior leaders.
 * Shape the development life cycle across job families using GenAI assistance to accelerate development and operations

About the team
The Buy For Me purchasing team owns the mission of completing customer purchases on off-amazon sites through both deterministic protocols and agentic methods. This role is with the agentic purchase team which is comprised of both SDEs and Applied Scientists working closely on production agents and offline capabilities to explore off-amazon sites, validate purchasing quality and onboard new sites to the Buy For Me program.


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