Amazon · 4 hours ago
Principal Technical Program Manager, Strategic Partnerships & IMPACT360
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$177K/yr - $239K/yr
8+ years expAmazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager for their newly created Partnership Acceleration & Co-innovation Team. This role involves managing large, cross-organizational technical programs that support strategic partnerships, requiring coordination across various teams and ensuring solutions meet AWS standards.
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Responsibilities
Own complex, cross-org programs end-to-end
Own program definition and delivery, including charter, success metrics, roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points
Drive alignment across organizations that do not share reporting lines; manage competing priorities and unblock critical path issues
Ensure programs transition cleanly into steady-state ownership and operations
Engage deeply on architecture, integration, and operational design across security, reliability, scalability, cost, and observability
Apply AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles to evaluate tradeoffs and identify gaps
Partner with architects, principal engineers, and service teams to converge on solutions that are robust, supportable, and operable
Own executive-ready narratives, including options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and clear decision asks
Produce high-quality written artifacts (one-pagers, six-pagers, decision memos, operating reviews)
Communicate complex technical issues clearly to mixed audiences, including senior internal leaders and external partner executives
Proactively surface risks and manage expectations
Create and institutionalize mechanisms that improve cross-org execution, such as governance forums, decision logs, and readiness criteria
Identify recurring failure modes and address them through durable process, tooling, and ownership models
Raise program management maturity by improving planning, execution, and decision-making practices
Drive operating reviews and establish program health metrics
Build and maintain multi-quarter plans, dependency maps, and critical paths
Define team interfaces, launch criteria, operational handoffs, and runbooks
Manage delivery risk, including phased delivery, rollback planning, and launch readiness
Mentor TPMs and raise the bar through coaching and strong written narratives
Qualification
Required
Experience demonstrating technical breadth in AWS and/or cloud fundamentals
Experience in verbal and written communication for executive level leaders
8+ years owning large-scale technical programs across multiple teams and senior stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority in complex, ambiguous environments
Preferred
8+ years of defining and executing against program timeline & requirements experience
Deep familiarity with AWS services and architectural best practices; experience applying Well-Architected principles in production environments
Experience delivering programs tied to strategic partnerships or enterprise commitments
Track record of building durable mechanisms that improve execution quality over time
Benefits
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
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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