Senior Technical Program Manager, Region Flexibility & Efficiency

As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), Region Flexibility, you will work to enable Amazon businesses to leverage new AWS regions and improve the efficiency and scale of our business. The end-state architecture will enable services to break region coupling while retaining the ability to keep critical business functions within a region. This architecture will improve customer latency through local affinity to compute resources and reduce the blast radius in case of region failures.

We are looking for a passionate, deeply technical, and results-oriented Technical Program Manager (TPM) to define and drive Region Flexibility initiatives, and drive fundamental architectural changes across the whole Amazon software stack.

You will have a proven track record of planning and delivering complex programs with multi-year roadmap, using Agile and incremental delivery methods. You will have experience driving architectural change across thousands of teams and handled communication from technical developers to senior leaders.


Key job responsibilities
* Partner with Project Sponsors and development teams to deliver complex cross-functional projects
* Define user stories and researching technical solutions
* Provide clear communication to management and stakeholders on project status and plans
* Guide software development teams on architecture, design, and priorities
* Build relationships across Amazon to leverage existing technologies and promote team initiatives
* Manage risk assessment, escalations, and trade-offs between business needs and constraints
* Maintain effective project documentation and stakeholder communications

About the team
The Region Flexibility and Efficiency (RFE) organization drives the optimization and resilience of Amazon's global infrastructure. We own programs that shape how Amazon operates across AWS regions, from enabling services to run flexibly across regions to driving petabyte-scale efficiency improvements that directly influence Amazon's infrastructure investment decisions.

Our portfolio spans infrastructure optimization programs, multi-region capacity strategy, fleet intelligence platforms, and agentic AI capabilities that automate performance improvements across hundreds of engineering teams. We support Amazon businesses including Stores, Prime Video, Alexa, and Kindle, and partner closely with AWS teams to improve both internal capabilities and public offerings.

This is a small, high-leverage team where individual contributors have direct impact at the highest levels of leadership. We value technical depth, hands-on execution, and the ability to operate across organizational boundaries. With millions of customers depending on Amazon's infrastructure every day, we build solutions that are robust, scalable, and designed to "just work" at Amazon's full scale.

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually