Technical Program Manager

Job summary
Excited about robotics, and how it will be used in our everyday lives? The Amazon Consumer Robotics group is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, making the future closer than ever.

Astro is Amazon’s first household robot to use AI and Intelligent Motion to gracefully and intuitively interact with people and spaces. It is a different kind of robot, one that’s designed to help customers with a range of tasks like home monitoring and keeping in touch with family. It brings together new advancements in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor technology, voice and edge computing in a package that’s designed to be helpful and convenient.

The Role:

We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. As a Senior Technical Manager, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, including Robotics.
The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver the new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness.

In this role, you will work with a focused team of engineers, UX designers, and product management on defining, developing, and delivering applications and user experiences for a new products. You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products that will be used every day by people you know.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance customer and business needs versus technical constraints. 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.
Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• Extensive experience delivering software features, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 2+ years of technical program management experience
• 7+ years of Technical Management in a related industry
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Device Software experience
• Experience managing software releases in /Java environments
• Experience with bug tracking systems
• Experience with business applications such as Word, Excel and Project
Preferred qualifications
• Leadership .
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects
• Demonstrated entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Thrive on solving tough problems.
• High judgment and negotiation skills with demonstrated ability to influence
• Analytical talents