Sr. Technical Program Manager, Privacy Services - Arlington - Amazon ID-12751

April 25, 2025

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Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) - Strategic Regulation Tech

Amazon is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Strategic Regulation Tech team in the Amazon Privacy Services organization. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services worldwide.

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The Senior TPM will own three key pillars:

Act as the SME for how Amazon systems process customer personal data to deliver unique customer experiences.
Lead end-to-end technical design across infrastructure and business teams.
Drive implementation of technical tasks while monitoring dependencies and reporting key risks, issues, and blockers.

This role requires contributing to the strategic direction for Amazon's privacy practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A great candidate will have a unique combination of experience with cutting-edge data governance technology, high judgement in system architecture decisions, and ability to set detailed technical design from ambiguous compliance requirements.

Key job responsibilities include:

Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation, and destinations of customer data across systems.
Lead high-level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing user consent.
Oversee scoping and funding of technical resources required to deliver the technical design across teams.
Drive implementation of technical tasks, monitoring key dependencies, and reporting risks/issues/blockers.

About the team:

StratReg drives product design, tech development, and program mechanisms required for Amazon to comply with obligations that protect customer personal or sensitive data, and span most or all of the company.

Basic Qualifications:

7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
3+ years of software development experience.
5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.

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