Amazon Jobs Looking for Technical Program Manager, Amazon Smart Vehicles, Partner Integration, Amazon Smart Vehicles at Troy, MI Full Time

Job summary
Job summary
Come help solve complex customer problems, work with awesome people and an opportunity to move the Automotive industry forward!

Key job responsibilities

Do you have a passion for Automotive? Do you want to challenge the status quo of the in-car experience? Do you want to take on very ambiguous problems? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a dream job for you.

We are looking for aTechnical Program Manager with excellent leadership skills, strong technical expertise, and hands-on project management skills. The right candidate is adept at writing technical specifications, owning program schedules from design to release, partnering effectively across organizations, and multiple technology teams, within and outside of Amazon, and managing large, complex launches.

In this role, you will wear many hats. You must possess a combination of strong technical skills and business acumen, as well as a do-what-it-takes attitude. You must be a strong leader, able to communicate clearly across all levels of the company. You don’t want to be part of an industry movement; you want to be out front leading it. If this sounds like you, we’d like to speak with you. A successful candidate has a strong passion for customers and developers and experience presenting platform strategies. Ideally, you have a background that spans solutions integration, software development, and product management. You must be highly analytical, work effectively across multiple organizations, and adept at synthesizing various technologies and capabilities into high-quality, simple products and applications that developers and customers love.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own planning and delivery of Amazon Digital Cabin products in the automotive space
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs against developer experience, customer experience, and time to market
• Drive architecture, engineering and integration decisions, and timelines across multiple teams and organizations
• Establish business processes and policies, as well as metrics and indicators for success
• Develop, report, and continually improve business performance metrics
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals

A day in the life
The Technical Program Manager position requires excellent leadership skills, strong technical expertise, and hands-on project management skills. The right candidate is adept at writing technical specifications, owning program schedules from design to release, partnering effectively across organizations and with multiple technology teams, within and outside of Amazon, and managing large, complex launches.

About the team
Partner Integration is on the frontlines with OEM partners and the tip of the spear of their digital transformation. Connected in-vehicle experiences are a focus for the industry right now and getting safe, delightful customer experiences that engage and adapt will be critical in shaping the connected mobility ecosystem of the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of relevant technical program management experience in building frameworks and applications for Linux based embedded systems
• Experience building agile processes and managing release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent written communication skills
• Experience working with external customers and stakeholders
• Automotive Industry experience preferred
• 3+ years of experience in program management for application development
• 10+ years of relevant technical program management experience in building frameworks and applications
• Experience building agile processes and managing release schedules
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to drive innovation and passion about learning new technologies
• Proven ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team

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