Overview In this role you lead a cross-team engineering excellence program for NAS, targeting five domains (infrastructure efficiency, operational excellence, cross-cutting mandates, builder enablement, privacy). You balance central mandates with NAS priorities, driving measurable goals and a single, unified scorecard for leadership. You operate in a high-visibility, ambiguous space, building consensus without direct authority while coordinating senior technical owners. This role shapes how NAS negotiates scope, tracks risk, and reports progress to executives.
Compensation / Benefits- health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parennial leave
- RSUs
- sign-on and relocation packages (where applicable)
Responsibilities- Define and run the end-to-end engineering excellence program across five domains with a flagship goal per domain and a unified scorecard for NAS leadership
- Serve as NAS's single point of contact to central organizations (SDO, S-Team, Infosec, Amazon Privacy Services) and negotiate scope/timelines for in-year mandates
- Drive cross-organizational delivery by leading domain owners and coordinating with multiple organizations without direct authority
- Decompose complex excellence surface into measurable bars and invent mechanisms to advance them, in collaboration with Principal/Senior Principal Engineers
- Own the monthly in-person review with NAS technical leaders and publish a leadership update covering status, risks, and decisions across all domains
Key requirements- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management with software engineering teams
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
- Ability to influence without formal authority
- Effective communication and executive storytelling
- Technical program management with software engineering
- Defining KPIs/SLAs and dashboards for large-scale programs
- Risk management and critical-path planning
