Amazon Alexa, the speech processing and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo, is seeking a technical program manager (TPM). The TPM position requires excellent leadership skills, strong technical expertise and hands-on project management skills. The right candidate will be adept at writing technical specifications, owning program schedules from design to release, partnering effectively with multiple technology teams within and outside of Amazon, and managing launches. In this role, you will wear many hats; you must possess a unique combination of strong technical skills and business acumen as well as a do-what-it-takes attitude. You will need to be a strong leader, able to communicate clearly and compelling at all levels of the company. You don’t just want to be part of an industry movement; you want to be out front leading it. If this sounds like you, we’d like to speak with you. Responsibilities · Engage with partners’ developers, architects, hardware engineers and project
· 10+ years’ experience in technical program management of web services, IoT, consumer electronics or related field · 5 years’ experience in technical partner management · Experience coordinating cross functional teams in both hardware and software engineering · Experience building processes, project management, and release schedules · Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical discipline · An advanced technical degree or MBA · Experience in the embedded computing, IoT, voice processing and web services fields · Experience with speech-related hardware systems · An