What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Demand Tech Campaign Creation position at Amazon?
Description
Drive the evolution of Amazon's advertising technology platform by leading strategic technical programs that impact millions of advertisers worldwide. You'll shape how businesses reach customers through Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Amazon DSP, and emerging ad technologies by orchestrating complex initiatives across multiple engineering teams and organizations.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you'll focus on stewarding large-scale technical programs that span our advertising campaign creation technology platform. You might start your day reviewing program metrics and stakeholder feedback on a current initiative, then transition into a technical design review with engineering leaders to evaluate architectural approaches for scaling our ad serving systems. You'll collaborate with product and science teams to align on roadmap priorities, facilitate cross-functional problem-solving sessions to navigate complex technical challenges, and prepare executive summaries for leadership reviews. Your work extends beyond traditional program management—you'll mentor other technical program managers, identify emerging risks in our distributed systems, and champion process improvements that enhance how teams coordinate and deliver.
About The Team
We serve small business owners, sellers, large and sophisticated advertisers, agencies, and integrators who depend on our platform to plan, buy, measure, and optimize their programmatic campaigns. Our team is focused on creating intuitive, strong media buying experiences that help our customers achieve their goals efficiently. We're committed to evolving our product strategy to meet changing advertiser needs while building toward a future where agentic capabilities enhance and streamline key workflows. As a member of this group, you'll work closely with product, engineering, and business partners across Amazon Ads to shape the direction of our platform and deliver meaningful improvements to how campaigns are created and managed and deliver both immediate impact and long-term strategic value.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, NY, New York - 194,700.00 - 263,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Advertising LLC
Job ID: A10379630
Drive the evolution of Amazon's advertising technology platform by leading strategic technical programs that impact millions of advertisers worldwide. You'll shape how businesses reach customers through Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Amazon DSP, and emerging ad technologies by orchestrating complex initiatives across multiple engineering teams and organizations.
Key job responsibilities
- Own end-to-end program management for strategic advertising technology initiatives, coordinating delivery across multiple engineering teams, product organizations, and business stakeholders
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap alignment by facilitating collaboration between engineering, product, science, and business teams to ensure shared vision and priorities
- Lead cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges in areas such as ad serving, campaign management, measurement, and optimization
- Establish program governance and accountability mechanisms including metrics, reporting structures, and visibility frameworks that support informed decision-making at senior leadership levels
- Identify and mitigate risks across large-scale distributed systems, working proactively with engineering leaders to address technical and operational challenges before they impact service delivery
In this role, you'll focus on stewarding large-scale technical programs that span our advertising campaign creation technology platform. You might start your day reviewing program metrics and stakeholder feedback on a current initiative, then transition into a technical design review with engineering leaders to evaluate architectural approaches for scaling our ad serving systems. You'll collaborate with product and science teams to align on roadmap priorities, facilitate cross-functional problem-solving sessions to navigate complex technical challenges, and prepare executive summaries for leadership reviews. Your work extends beyond traditional program management—you'll mentor other technical program managers, identify emerging risks in our distributed systems, and champion process improvements that enhance how teams coordinate and deliver.
About The Team
We serve small business owners, sellers, large and sophisticated advertisers, agencies, and integrators who depend on our platform to plan, buy, measure, and optimize their programmatic campaigns. Our team is focused on creating intuitive, strong media buying experiences that help our customers achieve their goals efficiently. We're committed to evolving our product strategy to meet changing advertiser needs while building toward a future where agentic capabilities enhance and streamline key workflows. As a member of this group, you'll work closely with product, engineering, and business partners across Amazon Ads to shape the direction of our platform and deliver meaningful improvements to how campaigns are created and managed and deliver both immediate impact and long-term strategic value.
Basic Qualifications
- 10 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 10 years of technical product or program management experience
- 5 years of software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- 10 years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, NY, New York - 194,700.00 - 263,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Advertising LLC
Job ID: A10379630