Are you passionate about customer experience? Are you equally comfortable digging into business requirements as you are drilling into architecture and design with development teams? Can you drive large cross-team projects that deliver cutting edge software and services? If your answer to these questions is yes, then you need to consider joining the Kindle end-to-end experience team.
Amazon's Digital Services division needs a Principal Technical Program Manager, with a focus on end-to-end customer experience, for our Kindle device software and services. The ideal candidate is a customer obsessed, creative, demonstrated technical leader and hands-on contributor with superior analytical abilities. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem solving, and communication skills. At the core of the position is delivering great experiences for our customers.
This role requires working with product management to define strategy and requirements, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through delivery. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control. Cross-team coordination, project management and executive presentation skills are essential.
Qualified candidates have extensive experience defining projects and programs, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets; as well as analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization.
Knowledge of the following is required: service-oriented architecture, product development (including C++, Java, XML, messaging protocols, and Web Services), project management, and product delivery. The ideal candidate will have 7 or more years of relevant work experience in internet-related project and/or technical product management in a software applications environment. An undergraduate degree in computer science, or equivalent experience is required.
To learn more about the Kindle team at Amazon, visit www.amazon.com/careers/kindle and apply now.
Basic Qualifications
• Product development experience, including C++, Java, XML, messaging protocols, and web services
• Experience building processes, project management, and release schedules
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in internet-related program and/or technical product management in a software applications environment
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Excellent problem solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
• Experience with agile or other program management methodologies
• Master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Prior experience as a software developer
• Prior experience with designing customer facing experiences
Amazon's Digital Services division needs a Principal Technical Program Manager, with a focus on end-to-end customer experience, for our Kindle device software and services. The ideal candidate is a customer obsessed, creative, demonstrated technical leader and hands-on contributor with superior analytical abilities. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem solving, and communication skills. At the core of the position is delivering great experiences for our customers.
This role requires working with product management to define strategy and requirements, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through delivery. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control. Cross-team coordination, project management and executive presentation skills are essential.
Qualified candidates have extensive experience defining projects and programs, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets; as well as analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization.
Knowledge of the following is required: service-oriented architecture, product development (including C++, Java, XML, messaging protocols, and Web Services), project management, and product delivery. The ideal candidate will have 7 or more years of relevant work experience in internet-related project and/or technical product management in a software applications environment. An undergraduate degree in computer science, or equivalent experience is required.
To learn more about the Kindle team at Amazon, visit www.amazon.com/careers/kindle and apply now.
Basic Qualifications
• Product development experience, including C++, Java, XML, messaging protocols, and web services
• Experience building processes, project management, and release schedules
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in internet-related program and/or technical product management in a software applications environment
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Excellent problem solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
• Experience with agile or other program management methodologies
• Master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Prior experience as a software developer
• Prior experience with designing customer facing experiences
