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Job summaryGood storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.
ABOUT THIS ROLEThis opportunity is for a Senior Technical Program Manager within Audible's Data Program. The Data Program is responsible for a wide breadth of systems and functionality for the whole of Audible. Examples range from our backend Data warehouse and Analytics systems to our customer facing Personalization, Search and CRM systems. Our teams design and build architectures for products and features that deliver Audible content to users on all of our surfaces including iOS, Android, Web, Alexa devices like Echo and more. Our technology allows us to unlock the power of our data to streamline workflows, gather insights from instrumentation, and improve our customer experiences with advanced recommendations and data science modeling. We need your help to manage and drive these complex systems in order to ensure we are scaling our systems to keep up with the demands of our customers.This role will be temporarily remote until our return to office date, at which time we will begin our hybrid model, Hub+Home. Our Hub+Home model provides flexibility to do our best work in the way that works best - maximizing the benefits of both work from hub and home. We promote flexibility in how we work, when we work, and from where we work. We also offer the opportunity to work fully remote for up to four weeks per year from anywhere within your assigned hub country. For more information please visit our Hub+Home page at https://www.audiblecareers.com/hub-home-hybrid-workplace.As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will- Work closely with stakeholders and product managers to ensure that requirements are translated to the technology requirements that subsequently drive the execution (plan, coordinate, manage) of software development from design through successful deployment.
- Work with cross functional teams - technology, business, marketing and operations to manage multiple projects that have conflicting needs / priorities, using an Agile development framework, from concept to launch.
- Communicate project risks, progress, launches and retrospectives across all stakeholders and teams - consistently and transparently.
- Strive constantly to improve and establish a new bar in performance (using objective metrics) in project execution.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 10+ years of experience within software.
- 3+ years of experience managing agile software projects.
- Ability to navigate an ambiguous environment.
- Able to diplomatically disagree and align when dealing with different stakeholders.
- Results oriented and with a customer focus.
- Prior experience in building service oriented (SOA) distributed systems.
- Prior experience in building ERP systems.
- Prior experience in building web based systems using Java/J2EE, Apache Tomcat.
- Experience building mobile device software and/or applications.
- Adept at usage of various tools such as Microsoft Project.
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