Description

Advertising at Amazon is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices. It encompasses ads on Amazon and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies. The Traffic Quality team endeavours to identify non-human and invalid traffic within programmatic ad sources, and weed them out to ensure a high quality advertising marketplace. One key focus area is to build machine learning and optimization algorithms that operate at scale, and leverage nuanced features about user, context, and creative engagement to determine the validity of traffic. The challenge is to stay one step ahead by investing in deep analytics and developing new algorithms that address emergent attack vectors in a structured and scalable fashion. We are committed to building a long-term traffic quality solution that encompasses all Amazon advertising channels and provides state-of-the-art traffic filtering that preserves advertiser trust and saves them hundreds of millions of dollars of wasted spend.

As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you will be excel at understanding requirements from customers, as well as anticipating future needs. You will be responsible for delivering results on large, complex business goals that require coordination across engineering and data science work streams. You are adept at delivering critical projects in aggressive timelines by making tradeoffs, balancing business needs versus technical constraints, anticipating bottlenecks and providing escalation management. Given the nature of advertising domain, you will need to dive deep into the business, engineering and data science aspects to ensure high quality deliverables as well as effective communication with stakeholders. You will review technical design and algorithmic consistency, and provide commentary on balancing short-term needs with long-term implications. You will also make data-driven decisions on a daily basis and drive communication to ensure stakeholders are aligned.

The right candidate will possess a strong program management background, with proven experience in leading medium to large products, preferably in the domain of web technologies. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, which is high on ambiguity and competing priorities. This means you will drive strategic initiatives as well as roll up your sleeves to get the job done. You will be data-driven and analytical with an in-depth understanding of business metrics. Finally, your verbal and written communication skills are excellent, and you are able to negotiate with stakeholders and inform/influence senior leadership.

Keen business judgment, negotiation skills and ability to influence leadership are essential to success in this role.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

• 5+ years of technical product or program management 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

• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

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