Senior Technical Program Manager, Ads Brand Safety and Suitability

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Ads Brand Safety & Suitability protects advertisers from exposure to unsafe, unsuitable, or policy-violating content across web, mobile app, CTV, and audio advertising inventory. Our mission is to ensure that every ad impression delivered through Amazon's demand-side platform appears adjacent to content that meets advertiser trust expectations while giving brands granular controls to define suitability on their own terms. We operate at the intersection of advertiser trust, publisher quality, and supply integrity.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager who possesses stakeholder management, program management, and well-rounded technical capabilities. You will drive the execution of complex, cross-organizational programs that protect advertiser trust at scale - including vendor integrations, enhancing capabilities across evolving supply types such as CTV, audio and gaming. You will work across multiple teams with evolving priorities, define clarity where ambiguity exists, and make trade-offs to drive program delivery. As a Sr. TPM, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints. You will work across engineering, science, product, policy, legal, and external partners to deliver programs that directly impact advertiser confidence.

Key job responsibilities

Program Execution & Delivery

• Drive end-to-end execution across engineering and science teams
• Own delivery of cross-organizational initiatives
• Define program milestones, manage dependencies across all stakeholders, and drive teams to deliver on commitments

Technical Depth & Architecture Influence

• Understand the real-time ad serving infrastructure
• Evaluate technical proposals, identify risks in system design, and ensure appropriate trade-offs.
• Drive technical integration programs with third-party vendors.
• Partner with science teams on ML model deployment experimentation frameworks, and signal validation.

Stakeholder Management & Cross-Org Alignment

• Manage relationships and alignment across senior leaders and stakeholders
• Drive executive communications through monthly and quarterly updates, and escalate to leadership effectively as needed.
• Navigate competing priorities across advertiser protection, publisher relationships, and business growth imperatives
• Represent Brand Safety programs in cross-org forums

Operational Excellence

• Create mechanisms that ensure long-term program success with or without direct involvement — documentation, runbooks, audit trails
• Own program-level metrics and reporting for leadership visibility

A day in the life

You will work with cross functional stakeholders across engineering, product and data science leadership to define engineering and product strategy. You will deliver state of the art machine learning based technical solutions that will power several contextual advertising products across Amazon Ads.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in technical product or program management
• Experience in software development
• Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
• 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

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