Job Description

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Job summary
Are you passionate about working on cutting edge AI and Voice technology and creating large impact globally?

Help shape Alexa Experience engineering. Are you excited by AI and voice interfaces? Interested in helping us build new experiences for Alexa? The Alexa International tech team is looking for a Principal TPM to drive technical cross organization initiatives that help customers get more out of their Alexa devices.

In this role you will be responsible for scoping and delivering large cross team projects end-to-end. Your responsibilities include collection of business requirements, establishing technical requirements, writing specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing production and launches. You coordinate design and implementation efforts between cross-functional internal teams across orgs to develop scalable solutions. You will be expected to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.

The right candidate will enjoy finding solutions to hard problems, possess a strong program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading large projects and will have a well-rounded technical background in software development.

As a Principal TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.

Exposure to advertisement technologies will be an added advantage.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• 7+ years of technical program management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Experience in product/program management with advanced and/or emerging technologies
• Proven results from establishing and optimizing software engineering processes for different organizations/environments
• Comfortable with ambiguity and be motivated by a fast-paced, highly collaborative and entrepreneurial environment.
• Fast learner of new technologies
• Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Exposure to Machine Learning, Voice and Advertising Technologies