Sr. Technical Program Manager - ASK LLM, Alexa AI Developer Tech

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DESCRIPTION :

Alexa+ is our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, personalized, and gets things done.

Our goal is make Alexa+ an instantly familiar personal assistant that is always ready to help or entertain on any device. At the core of this vision is 'Alexa AI Developer Tech', a close-knit team that's dedicated to providing software developers with the tools, primitives, and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information, products and services available on Alexa+.

Interested in Alexa+? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling third-party partners to create experiences for Alexa+? Then come help us build the AI-native SDKs that partners use every day to expand Alexa+ capabilities!

You will join a growing organization working on top technology using Generative AI and have an enormous opportunity to make an impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.

We're working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!

Alexa AI Developer Tech team is looking for a Sr. Technical Program Manager (Sr. TPM) to help us in our mission to make developers focus on creating magical experiences and making their life easier through SDK, CLI and visual tools. As a Sr. TPM, you will own the strategy for the prompt engineering and evaluation space. You will work on projects that enable developer to provide instructions to the LLM in an efficient manner that drives consistent experiences. 
In your role, you will provide a safe and efficient way to update prompts at scale for Alexa developers.
In your role, you will devise the short term program plans and long term strategy for 1st and 3rd party software developers across the Alexa community.

Key job responsibilities

As a TPM, you will be a mission-critical member of the leadership team, unify distributed engineering efforts and own the plan to deliver high-profile new tools and features for developers that build on Alexa. You will lead strategic initiatives across many teams that will provide developers with high-impact improvements.
You will draw on your knowledge of software development to hold a high standard of excellence for the developer experience.
 you will drive technical requirements, design, and delivery planning, working across engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure successful launch of initiatives. You will enable transparency and decision-making across leadership by providing critical communication and clear status of the initiatives you own.
You will apply your expertise, problem solving skills, and creativity to add value and diversity of thought to our team.


The Senior TPM role requires excellent leadership skills, strong technical expertise and hands-on project management skills. The right candidate will be adept at writing technical specifications, owning program schedules from design to release, and partnering effectively with other teams across Alexa.

Next-gen AI Exposure

• Be part of Amazon's strategic push into next-generation AI assistants.
• Work directly with state-of-the-art LLMs and generative-AI technologies.
• Gain expertise in an emerging, high-demand field that few engineers have deep experience in.

Massive Scale Impact

A day in the life

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