Principal Technical Program Manager, Sequence Models (project Sequoia)

Overview As Principal Technical Program Manager, you will lead a high-impact, cross-organizational program to advance sequence models for understanding customer journeys and optimizing experiences across Amazon products. You will coordinate across Product, Science, and Engineering to align strategy and deliver large-scale initiatives that involve Ads, Stores, and Media technology. You will tackle ambiguous problems at scale, influence architecture and governance, and communicate progress to senior leadership. This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of ads-enabled personalization within a diverse, fast-moving environment. Compensation / Benefitshealth insurance (medical, dental, vision)401(k) matchingRSUspaid time offparental leaveemployee assistance program ResponsibilitiesOwn end-to-end program management for strategic technology initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizationsDrive technical strategy and roadmap alignment across engineering, product, science, and business teamsLead cross-functional teams through complex technical challengesEstablish program governance, metrics, and reporting mechanisms for SVP/CEO visibilityIdentify and mitigate technical and operational risks across large-scale distributed systemsPartner with engineering leaders to influence architecture decisions for scalability and reliabilityBuild and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across Amazon Ads, Stores, AWS, Media and StoresDrive operational excellence through processes, automation, and best practicesMentor and develop other TPMs across the organizationRepresent the program in executive reviews and planning sessions Key requirements7+ years of direct engineering collaboration7+ years of technical product or program management experience5+ years of software development experienceExperience designing or architecting systems (reliability, scaling)Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, release coordinationExperience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definitionpreferred: 8+ years managing complex technology projectspreferred: experience across cross-functional project management and release coordinationcross-functional collaborationstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingsystems design and architecturedistributed systemsroadmap planning and governance