We're looking for a Technical Program Manager to build that program. You'll own the mechanisms that turn Kiro Labs from a promising side effort into a durable, scalable incubator: the publishing pipeline, the governance model, the lifecycle, and the metrics. You'll be the connective tissue across the Kiro product team, open source strategy, security, legal, marketing, and customer success - diving deep enough technically to understand what contributors are building, and program-managing well enough to get it shipped and keep the org healthy.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the publishing pipeline end to end - Design and run the intake process that takes a project from proposal to public repo fit review, security review, license and trademark review, and repo creation - and relentlessly drive down time-to-publish.
- Build the governance model - Stand up the review committee, define the fit, quality, and security bar, establish decision rights and response SLAs, and document the entire workflow.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and unblock contributors - Coordinate across product, open source strategy, security, legal/IP, marketing, and customer success. Own the critical path, clear blockers, and give contributors a single, obvious place to get answers.
- Own project lifecycle and org health - Define and operate the active, maintenance, and archived states, health monitoring, and the sunset process, so Kiro Labs stays a curated set of working tools rather than a graveyard of abandoned repos.
- Define and report on success - Establish the program's KPIs - projects published, external engagement (stars, forks, issues, and PRs from outside Amazon), projects that graduate to broad adoption, time-to-publish, and growth in external awareness of Kiro and report progress, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
- Scale the operation - Introduce automated quality and health checks, write the SOPs, and reduce manual effort so the program runs on mechanisms
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience presenting metrics and progress to goal to senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience developing and implementing KPI goals and strategies based on broader organization goals
- 3+ years of software development experience, or Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
- Experience running open source or developer community programs, including GitHub organization administration, open source release and compliance processes, and open source licensing
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NC, Raleigh - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 163,600.00 - 221,300.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually