Sr. Technical Program Manager, Payment Services
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Location: Vancouver, BC V5K 5J9
Description:
Come challenge yourself and learn from the best. Work with a world class team building market leading services of unprecedented scale.
The Amazon Payments(AP) organization is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager with a vision to provide Amazon businesses with industry leading checkout conversion rates by minimizing friction and maximizing access for customers. PayStation Checkout and Wallet enables customers to make fast and secure payments with their desired payment methods. We operate over 35 services including 9 tier-1 services that handle all payment method definition and selection requests in Amazon.
We are looking for a highly skilled, experienced, and motivated Engineering Leader to innovate and solve the challenges at a massive scale. You will drive product direction and road-map planning, project execution, and closely collaborate with engineers to develop cutting-edge systems. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company to deliver new payment experience and delight millions of customers.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and start on the FinTech innovation. You will use your experience to drive innovative, customer-focused payment solutions to provide local paying experiences for Amazon's customers around the globe.
If you are a superstar Technical Program Manager, come join us! You will get an opportunity to influence Amazon's technical architecture across multiple organizations, establish and own a roadmap. This role requires working across engineering and product teams to define strategy and requirements and lead cross functional development teams from design through delivery. You will be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle, from product definition through specification, coding, quality assurance and launch to the world. This position involves regular communication with senior leadership on status, risks and change control. Cross-team coordination, agile project management and executive presentation skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, analytical and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
From a business and technical perspective, these are the expectations -
- Have a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services
- Understand how to design scalable software
- Be conversant with internet technologies
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical partners
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Has relentlessly high standards, is never satisfied with the status quo
- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to earn trust of others
- Results orientation
About the team
Amazon Payment's mission is "To be the leader in trusted, innovative, and scalable payments technology that powers Amazon to build experiences that delight our customers". We innovate to create services and tools enabling one of the most complex, highly secure and resilient global money movement networks in the world, supporting payment acceptance and payouts for every buyer and seller experience in Amazon world-wide. We protect customer's sensitive data (payments critical or critical PII) at rest and during transmission to 125+ partners with highest security bar.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary for this position ranges from $128,100/year up to $214,000/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The Amazon Payments(AP) organization is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager with a vision to provide Amazon businesses with industry leading checkout conversion rates by minimizing friction and maximizing access for customers. PayStation Checkout and Wallet enables customers to make fast and secure payments with their desired payment methods. We operate over 35 services including 9 tier-1 services that handle all payment method definition and selection requests in Amazon.
We are looking for a highly skilled, experienced, and motivated Engineering Leader to innovate and solve the challenges at a massive scale. You will drive product direction and road-map planning, project execution, and closely collaborate with engineers to develop cutting-edge systems. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company to deliver new payment experience and delight millions of customers.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and start on the FinTech innovation. You will use your experience to drive innovative, customer-focused payment solutions to provide local paying experiences for Amazon's customers around the globe.
If you are a superstar Technical Program Manager, come join us! You will get an opportunity to influence Amazon's technical architecture across multiple organizations, establish and own a roadmap. This role requires working across engineering and product teams to define strategy and requirements and lead cross functional development teams from design through delivery. You will be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle, from product definition through specification, coding, quality assurance and launch to the world. This position involves regular communication with senior leadership on status, risks and change control. Cross-team coordination, agile project management and executive presentation skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, analytical and communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
From a business and technical perspective, these are the expectations -
- Have a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services
- Understand how to design scalable software
- Be conversant with internet technologies
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical partners
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Has relentlessly high standards, is never satisfied with the status quo
- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to earn trust of others
- Results orientation
About the team
Amazon Payment's mission is "To be the leader in trusted, innovative, and scalable payments technology that powers Amazon to build experiences that delight our customers". We innovate to create services and tools enabling one of the most complex, highly secure and resilient global money movement networks in the world, supporting payment acceptance and payouts for every buyer and seller experience in Amazon world-wide. We protect customer's sensitive data (payments critical or critical PII) at rest and during transmission to 125+ partners with highest security bar.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary for this position ranges from $128,100/year up to $214,000/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.