Description

The India Customer and Delivery Experience Product team is looking for an experienced and energetic Principal Program leader with experience in e-commerce fulfillment. This role requires critical thinking, ability to think big, write and communicate long term strategies, and be comfortable with high level of ambiguity. This role will be responsible towards building a fast, reliable, and sustainable customer shopping and delivery experience. The individual in this role will collaborate across a team of program, product, tech, BI and Science leaders to plan, execute, validate, and deploy complex customer experience capabilities across International Emerging stores. This role will partner will partner with teams across the globe to launch and drive impact through bespoke product solutions. The ideal candidate will obsess over customers and have a proven track record of delivering results while managing high level of complexity. Successful candidates will have experience with Program Management in a broad, global organization, have experience working with a variety of cross-organizational stakeholders, and be able to juggle competing priorities. This candidate must have crisp communication skills, and have experience communicating project status and updates across a global audience. Ability to navigate ambiguous programs, influence without authority, and a high bias for action are critical for success in this role.

Key job responsibilities

As a Principal Program Manager, you will:

• Be the Single-threaded leader who owns significant complex problems and organizational goals to improve Customer Experience around shopping and fulfillment

• Define the short-term and long-term vision for the area, leveraging data, insights, benchmarking, and other associated information for decision making.

• Evangelize this opportunity to generate support; builds business cases for senior leadership review towards awareness, interest and investment in the problem space

• Break down ambitions into SMART goals that make a material contribution towards the ambition

• Influence stakeholders and Amazon team to partner on planning, organizing and executing initiatives towards the goals.

• Ruthlessly prioritize to drive the biggest customer impact; balances short-term challenges and long-term benefits.

• Confidently operate in a highly ambiguous space; simplifies decision-making using a combination of data, anecdotes, insights, and escalations

• Regularly communicate to very senior leadership to inform on status, progress, challenges, blockers, and support asks on critical organizational goals.

A day in the life

As a Principal Program Manager, you will be responsible for identifying, scoping, and delivering large end to end programs. You will have the opportunity to engage with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to conceive of and design innovative customer facing initiatives. You thrive through creating a vision, building consensus and driving teams towards results. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, significantly complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence are essential to success in this role.

About the team

As we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, Amazon has reinvented how hundreds of millions of people shop online – providing Customers with the opportunity to find and discover virtually anything they want to buy and providing millions of products to buy at express speeds. We are building products that help customers to easily identify offers which are closest to them. True to Amazon’s tenets, customer and seller obsession are always at the forefront of our decisions. We innovate and design our services and tools with a focus on customer experience, followed by our focus on technology and worldwide scaling. You will work on the customer’s search experience, build new widgets that drive better discovery of products, improve personalization for the entire customer’s journey, improve our perception of speed, and scale all these products globally.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of program or project management experience

• 4+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience

• Bachelor's degree

• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality

• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams