Amazon

Technical Program Manager, ML Navigators

Amazon$171K — $231K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
  • 5+ years in technical product or program management
  • 5+ years in project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, budget, and quality
  • Experience in managing multi-team programs and coordinating release schedules
  • Understanding of infrastructure and complex systems

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage network delivery programs and complex cross-functional projects
  • Collaborate with technical managers to allocate resources and set project priorities
  • Oversee program communication, manage schedules, and mitigate risks
  • Understand business context and technical requirements for informed trade-offs
  • Manage the end-to-end project lifecycle from planning to post-launch support
  • Drive improvements in project efficiency and operational excellence

Benefits

  • Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and employee assistance programs
  • Flexible spending accounts and adoption reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of ML network delivery, driving innovation that impacts millions of AWS customers worldwide? Would you like to lead high-impact programs that transform how machine learning networks get deployed at scale, while collaborating with brilliant minds across engineering, infrastructure, and business teams?

The Network Fabric Engineering (NFE) team is looking for a Technical Program Manager. As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams to drive the delivery of complex network solutions, from inception through design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

AWS Network Fabric Engineering is focused on building Data Centers and the network that allows Data Centers to function efficiently. We own the solutions that allow racks to be aggregated and Data Centers to be interconnected. Core Networking's goal is to balance efficiency, performance and reliability to allow customers access to their applications and data.

Key job responsibilities

- Owns and manages a program for network delivery and designs while independently handling difficult cross-functional projects that require coordination across multiple teams.

- Partners effectively with technical managers to secure resources, scope engineering efforts, set project priorities, and drive delivery to meet program goals.

- Takes ownership of program communication, schedule management, and risk mitigation while accelerating progress through timely decision-making and blocker removal.

- Maintains deep understanding of both business context and technical requirements to make appropriate trade-offs in program execution.

- Manages end-to-end project lifecycle including roll-out processes, test and deployment plans, and post-launch support activities.

- Drives improvements in project and cross-team process efficiency while incorporating system quality and operational excellence improvements.

A day in the life

In this role, you will own the planning, deployment, and decommissioning of AWS's ML network - the infrastructure that ensures our customers have the right compute capacity, in the right locations, at the right time to meet accelerating demand for machine learning workloads. You will partner across infrastructure, supply chain, finance, and software organizations to deliver ML network at scale, from initial capacity planning through rack turn-up to end-of-life removal.

About the team

AWS Network Fabric Engineering (NFE) owns data center network services that provide unconstrained connectivity to our customers, such as EC2, EBS, S3 and Amazon CDO Services. They own the networks internal to the data centers end to end, including scaling and operational functions, for both traditional data centers. They also own newer AWS offerings such as Outposts and Local Zones.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering

- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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, CA, Santa Clara - 171,000.00 - 231,400.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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