Sr. Technical Program Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands

Description

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through novel generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

As a Sr. Technical Program Manager for the Global Optimization Team, you'll lead cross-functional initiatives across Japan, Emerging Marketplaces, and international regions to accelerate product development and scientific innovation. With a unique charter to cut across the entire ads stack, you'll orchestrate end-to-end delivery and drive process improvements across product, science, and engineering teams—removing blockers, streamlining workflows, and enabling faster iteration cycles.

Your scope spans the full advertising technology landscape—from bidding and ranking systems to creative optimization, measurement, and customer insights. You'll partner with multiple organizations and teams to understand distinct country dynamics and shopper behaviors, then help accelerate the development of breakthrough advertising products powered by advanced technology.

Key job responsibilities
Your focus will be on:
- Accelerating innovation velocity across the entire ads stack through optimized development processes and cross-org collaboration
- Building from the ground up in international markets by establishing scalable frameworks and best practices that can be rapidly deployed and iterated
- Enabling rapid product iteration through improved processes, infrastructure, and team coordination across multiple organizations
- Bridging product and science to ensure customer insights drive technical roadmap prioritization

About the team
Our team invents, defines, and delivers advertising products that drive brand discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon Store businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, fast-paced, and collaborative team with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Basic Qualifications

- 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 building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

- 5 years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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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.