We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to serve as the Chief of Staff for Amazon's Wireless Connectivity organization ( engineers across US and Asia). This person will own operational excellence, strategic planning, and AI-powered program management for a leadership org that ships wireless connectivity solutions (WiFi, Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee, Matter, Sidewalk) across Amazon's entire device portfolio - Echo, Fire TV, Ring, Blink, Key, smart eyewear, and next-generation smart home products.
This is not a traditional "track one program" TPM role. You will be the operating system for a hardware engineering organization: running the planning cadence, driving headcount and budget decisions, preparing executive documents (OP1/OP2), monitoring health of 30+ concurrent programs, and building AI-augmented workflows that replace manual toil
You will be the person leadership relies on to know where every program stands and keep a pulse check on org health.
Key job responsibilities
Org Operations & Cadence
- Own and run the leadership operating rhythm: WBR, MBR, QBR, OP cycles
- Drive cross-team coordination across 4+ sub-orgs
- Prepare agendas, track action items, and ensure decisions are documented and followed through
- Manage org-wide communications: announcements, hiring updates, launch celebrations
Strategic Planning & HC Management
- Own the annual/bi-annual OP1/OP2 planning cycle end-to-end: narrative writing, HC asks, cost modeling
- Manage headcount forecasting
- Run monthly HC scrub: validate loading against 9-Box rules, identify violations, prepare remediation plans
- Model trade-offs between programs, functions, and geos for leadership decisions
- Prepare and maintain roadmap-to-HC mapping for 50+ product programs
Org Health & Escalation
- Monitor org health across the full portfolio (milestones, risks, blockers, dependencies)
- Build dashboards and automated reports that surface Red/Yellow status before review meetings
- Prepare escalation write-ups with data, context, and recommended actions for leadership
AI-Augmented Operations (Differentiator)
- Build, maintain, and improve AI agent workflows that automate operational toil
- Design and operate LLM-based tools for: HC scrub automation, program mapping, report generation, document
drafting
executive summaries
- Continuously identify manual processes that can be automated with AI/ML tooling
- Evaluate and adopt new AI capabilities (coding assistants, document analysis, data pipelines) for org-wide
benefit
Executive Communication
- Write executive-ready narratives: OP documents, business reviews, org highlights, 6-pagers
- Translate technical wireless engineering work into business impact for non-technical audiences
- Prepare data-backed briefing materials for leadership reviews