Technical Program Manager III, Customer Outcomes and Resilience Engineering

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset. Are you passionate about driving change and transforming how organizations deliver customer resilience at scale? The Customer Outcomes and Resilience Engineering (CORE) organization is seeking a results-oriented Technical Program Manager to create and drive projects and programs that support a unified real-time incident response and complex escalation recovery function into a single AI-first operating model. You will help deliver work in support of the transformation of a 300+ person organization from reactive to proactive—resolving customer issues, preventing recurrence, and shipping production AI capabilities at scale. As a Technical Program Manager in CORE, you will lead projects aligned to our regional leaders, helping to own and define how the organization scales customer resilience and onboarding across regions. Working with Generative AI and Agentic AI technology initiatives, you will partner with business leaders to understand their requirements across critical incidents and escalations, and collaborate with builder teams to create scalable long-term mechanisms that turn every incident into an input that improves the system. Your work will keep the flywheel between front-line resolution and upstream service improvement compounding quarter over quarter, delivering the Unified Operations set of services that delight our customers. Key job responsibilities - Drive end-to-end delivery of complex cross-functional programs that unify incident detection and response with escalation services, managing the lifecycle from requirements definition through implementation and operational excellence - Partner with regional business leaders and engineering teams to define technical requirements and create scalable mechanisms that transform reactive processes into proactive AI-enabled systems - Participate in architecture discussions and technical strategy decisions, using your technical judgment to question proposals, test assumptions, and ensure solutions scale to meet the ambitious business case across four global regions - Build consensus across stakeholders including field operations, engineering, product, and senior leadership by providing clear context on business and technology choices, harmonizing discordant views, and driving crisp decisions - Analyze program health through metrics and data, proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become blockers, and drive continuous process improvements that simplify operations and eliminate barriers to innovation A day in the life You will organize design reviews with partner engineering teams, asking probing questions to ensure designs meet customer needs. You will break down large, complex problems into manageable pieces, create strategic narratives for leadership reviews, and drive resolution of blockers across the organization. Your proven track record of taking end-to-end ownership will enable you to successfully deliver results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment where you influence without explicit authority. You will be highly analytical, resourceful, customer-focused, and team-oriented, with the ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. About the team CORE combines Incident Detection and Response (IDR) and Enhanced Support Services (ES2) under single leadership as one operational team. Running 24x7 across four regions for top-tier customers, CORE is part of Amazon Web Services Applied AI Solutions, an organization building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. We build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions, creating end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction and are looking for builders who share that mindset. Our team is focused on transforming how we deliver customer outcomes—turning every incident into an opportunity to improve the system and shipping production AI capabilities at scale. You will work in an inclusive culture that empowers team members to deliver the best results for our customers through collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. 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Minimum qualifications - 6+ years of technical product or program management experience - 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience - 3+ years of software development experience - Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules 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 Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, TX, Dallas - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually