Amazon

Sr TPM, Alexa Connect Kit, Alexa Smart Home

Posted On

Sept. 18, 2024

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Software Development

Apply By

Oct. 8, 2024

Job Description

Would you like to be a part of building out the future of Smart Home Devices? Want to join a team that enables device makers to build smart home appliances?

The Alexa Connect Kit team is a team within Alexa Smart Home. We offer managed services (cloud services, firmware, devices) to simplify IoT development and enabling device makers to build smart home appliances. We work across verticals that Alexa Smart Home supports, partnering with manufacturers to bring to market everything Christmas trees, coffee makers to light switches and air purifiers. We work with manufacturers to realize their product vision at what they do best, whilst we bring best in class Alexa and Smart Home features into their products in an easy to integrate manner.

The right candidate will possess a strong program management background, will have demonstrated experience leading large projects, and will have a well-rounded technical background in embedded and cloud technologies. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you will ensure the teams are delivering the highest quality products and services predictably while meeting the technical needs of our community. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You are required to communicate effectively with leaders across Director and VP level on a regular basis An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you'll...
- Work across a diverse set of stakeholder organizations to prioritize and manage large development projects
- Partner with external companies to bring Alexa to their devices
- Connect the dots across many sub-teams to ensure consistent execution
- Track and report data, and manage organizational mechanisms, to help stakeholders understand the business
- Report on team status across several executive communication channels

A day in the life
In this role you'll...
- Work across a diverse set of stakeholder organizations to prioritize, manage and deliver large development projects in a timely manner while meeting the quality bar
- Be responsible for diving deep into technical systems, understanding them well
- Be responsible for delivering results despite working in an ambiguous environment
- Report on team status across several executive communication channels
- Need a strong bias for action and be able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
- internalize Amazon’s Leadership Principles to guide your programs to success.

About the team
Would you like to be a part of building out the future of Smart Home Devices? Want to join a team that enables device makers to build smart home appliances?

You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning. You will build software that will materially improve people’s lives.- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 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 owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

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