Technical Program Manager, Autonomous Security

Amazon • Austin, TX

3d

About The Position

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering
delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating
and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and
services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate
their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas
including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and
physical stores.

Overview:
As a Technical Program Manager in Autonomous Security, you'll hold a unique
dual-focus position that combines hands-on product development with strategic
program leadership. This role sits at the intersection of technical innovation
and organizational effectiveness, requiring both depth in security product
development and breadth in program management.

Product Portfolio Leadership:
You will drive the technical program management for key projects within our
autonomous security suite. This involves deep engagement with engineering teams,
driving solution design, and ensuring successful delivery of features and
capabilities. You'll navigate technical complexities, drive the right critical
trade-off decisions, and maintain the balance between speed and quality. Success
means not just managing each product independently, but understanding and
leveraging the synergies between them to create a cohesive security solution.

Program Leadership:
Beyond individual products, you'll serve as the program backbone for AutoSec,
connecting various workstreams and initiatives across the organization. This
requires proactive identification of collaboration opportunities, creation of
meaningful partnerships, and development of clear communication channels. You'll
be responsible for crafting and delivering the broader narrative to partners and
leadership, ensuring our mission and achievements are well understood across
Amazon Security.

Strategic Impact:
Your role extends beyond day-to-day execution into strategic planning and
future-state development. You'll identify emerging trends, customer needs, and
potential areas for innovation within the autonomous security space. This
involves regular engagement with stakeholders across Amazon's security
ecosystem, gathering insights, and translating them into actionable plans.
You'll need to balance immediate product needs with long-term strategic
objectives, ensuring our technology investments align with broader
organizational goals.

Cross-functional Engagement:
Success in this role requires building and maintaining strong relationships
across organizational boundaries. You'll create bidirectional communication
channels with partners and leaders, ensuring information flows effectively in
both directions. This means not just sharing updates, but actively seeking
feedback, identifying opportunities for collaboration, and fostering a culture
of partnership. You'll be the bridge between technical teams and business
stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business value.

This role demands a unique blend of technical depth, strategic thinking, and
exceptional communication skills. The ideal candidate will be equally
comfortable diving into technical discussions with engineers and presenting
strategic visions to executive leadership. They will thrive in ambiguity and
demonstrate the ability to drive results across both product development and
program management domains.

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• 3+ 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

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical program management for key projects within our autonomous security suite.
• Deep engagement with engineering teams, driving solution design, and ensuring successful delivery of features and capabilities.
• Navigate technical complexities, drive the right critical trade-off decisions, and maintain the balance between speed and quality.
• Understanding and leveraging the synergies between products to create a cohesive security solution.
• Serve as the program backbone for AutoSec, connecting various workstreams and initiatives across the organization.
• Proactive identification of collaboration opportunities, creation of meaningful partnerships, and development of clear communication channels.
• Crafting and delivering the broader narrative to partners and leadership, ensuring our mission and achievements are well understood across Amazon Security.
• Identify emerging trends, customer needs, and potential areas for innovation within the autonomous security space.
• Regular engagement with stakeholders across Amazon's security ecosystem, gathering insights, and translating them into actionable plans.
• Balance immediate product needs with long-term strategic objectives, ensuring our technology investments align with broader organizational goals.
• Create bidirectional communication channels with partners and leaders, ensuring information flows effectively in both directions.
• Actively seeking feedback, identifying opportunities for collaboration, and fostering a culture of partnership.
• Be the bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business value.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed