Principal Technical Program Manager - Amazon Core Search, Palo Alto, CA.

Amazon Search creates customer-focused product search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, our systems go to work. Our Search team designs, builds, and delivers high performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed search engine used by millions of Amazon customers every day. You will come with a desire to focus on delivering a state-of-the-art industry leading search platform. A solid track record in defining and executing on a large-scale, distributed systems and a relentless desire to improve customer experience are requirements for success in this role.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you define the strategic vision for the search engine infrastructure that delivers delightful experience to our customers in their shopping mission. You will partner with business experts, data modelers, scientists, and engineers by leveraging new trends in Information retrieval, low latency and high throughput distributed systems, deep learning inference systems, and fault-tolerant application hosting frameworks. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, and will work with technical customers to identify and prioritize needs, able to effectively influence up and across the organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities to deliver quality search experiences that customers love. As a single-threaded owner, you are trusted to operate with complete independence.


Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and lead a multi­-year product roadmap, balancing short­ and long­-term goals to scale globally
- Define creative, high quality, and clear roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
- Develop detailed, crisp business requirements and user stories that can be used to create specifications and architecture for search engine infrastructure features
- Partner with Engineering, Science, Operations, and partner teams to create best-in-class search solutions for customers
- Analyze stakeholder feedback to identify key pain points
- Build innovative concepts and successfully champion them through senior management and other teams
- Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building resilient systems that power great customer experiences
- Roll up sleeves as necessary to ensure projects stay on schedule and meet our high standards of quality


A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Maternity and Parental Leave Options
Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!