Principal Technical Program Manager

Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon’s scale. We’re building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction.

Our collaborative team is at the forefront of building world-class industrial automation solutions. Our team is searching for a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) who can own the complexity and vast technical workstreams across all aspects of our program. As the Principal TPM, you set the strategy and mechanisms that maximize decision-making velocity by removing obstacles across the organization. This role is empowered to audit, evaluate, and escalate risk to functional and senior leadership when a technical decision or delivery status is a risk driver to schedule or the overall technical vision. Your role is critical to driving the total timing, overall risks/issues and dependencies, and scope changes to partner/dependent teams as required — and to influencing the long-term technical direction of the program.


Key job responsibilities
- Establishing and owning the mechanisms and cadence to manage the Amazon industrial robotic program
- Managing escalations or misalignments when there are risks to delivering committed services with high quality; facilitating/leading tradeoff decisions with customers, stakeholders, and partner teams when there are conflicting priorities
- Working with teams to determine whether a decision is a one-way or two-way door; managing necessary discussions with customer and partner teams to manage expectations, impacts, and risks associated with said decision(s)
- Ensuring role clarity and escalating to functional leadership when there are misalignments that impact delivering on commitments
- Developing and publishing a clear RACI to create transparency with customer teams and to drive ownership and accountability
- Coordinating across internal teams to ensure alignment and enablement of delivering deployment services
- Exercising strong technical judgement to influence and drive deployment methodology expertise to program-level decisions
- Ability to understand scalability requirements and determine feasibility of technology deployments at scale – acting as the voice back to Product and Engineering teams to protect for those requirements on emerging technical products

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing hardware programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules across HW/SW/science workstreams

Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience delivering robotics, industrial automation, or complex electromechanical systems from development through deployment at scale
- Experience building sustainable processes across hardware, software, and science teams
- Experience working in Scaled Agile Frameworks across HW/SW teams

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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, N.Reading - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually