DESCRIPTION

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?
The Role:

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. In this role, you will:
Work with key stakeholders in product management and executive teams to define strategy and requirements
Lead cross functional development on new technology from design through delivery
Work with remote teams to deliver supporting software and services in sync with launch timelines
Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks and change control

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 5+ years of technical program management experience
Bachelor's degree with a technical discipline or equivalent experience
7+ years of relevant work experience in technical program/project management in a consumer electronics environment
7+ years of experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets
5+ years of experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master's degree or advanced technical degree
Creative leader with superior analytical abilities
Product development (including C++, Java, messaging protocols, and Web Services), and service-oriented architecture experience
Knowledge of hardware development process and life cycle