Principal Technical Program Manager, Ads AI Core Infrastructure

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Amazon Advertising is investing heavily in building AI-native data infrastructure, and our team sits at the center of that transformation. We own the Ads Real-Time Data Service and Advertiser Profiles: the systems that provide every advertising AI agent with immediate, structured access to advertiser context.

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Qualifications

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• PREFERRED
• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
• Los Angeles County applicants: Job
• and location.

Responsibilities

• Program Strategy & Roadmap Ownership
• You own the multi-quarter roadmap for Advertiser Data and Profiles across both our team and our partner teams.
• You define program milestones, success metrics, and delivery timelines.
• You write and present the program narrative for OP1/OP2 documents and monthly business reviews to Directors and VPs.
• You make data-driven trade-off recommendations when scope, resources, and timelines conflict, and you drive crisp decisions about what ships now versus what defers.
• Cross-Organization Program Delivery
• You create and maintain program schedules that account for cross-team dependencies, negotiate resource commitments, and drive weekly execution cadence across all workstreams.
• When programs stall, you diagnose whether the block is technical, organizational, or resource-based, and you drive resolution through the appropriate path.
• Technical Program Leadership
• You work with engineers to decompose large programs into independently deliverable milestones.
• You ensure that real-time ingestion pipelines, MCP server infrastructure, and profile computation systems meet their availability and latency commitments.
• You own the launch readiness process for platform features consumed by 30+ downstream teams.

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