About the job
We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead regulatory, functional safety, compliance, and road-readiness programs for Amazon’s autonomous delivery vehicle initiative. This role will own the integrated program required to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles on public roads, working across vehicle engineering, autonomy software, systems engineering, functional safety, legal, regulatory compliance, public policy, operations, and commercial teams. The Senior TPM will also manage complex dependencies with external autonomy providers, vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and other technology partners, ensuring that safety requirements, regulatory obligations, technical evidence, and operational controls remain aligned across organizational boundaries. The successful candidate will bring strong systems thinking and technical program leadership, translate safety and regulatory requirements into executable plans, drive closure of cross-functional risks and gaps, and establish the mechanisms used to determine when vehicles, software releases, operating locations, and operational processes are ready for public-road testing and deployment.
Responsibilities
Own the integrated roadmap for functional safety, regulatory compliance, and public-road readiness across vehicle development, testing, and deployment
Partner with functional safety, systems engineering, and validation teams to coordinate hazard and risk assessments, safety requirements, verification and validation activities, and the technical evidence required to support the safety case
Establish and drive readiness criteria for vehicles, software releases, operating locations, and operational processes
Align engineering, functional safety, legal, regulatory compliance, public policy, operations, and commercial teams and manage shared plans with external partners
Identify and drive closure of safety, regulatory, technical, and operational risks and establish governance mechanisms
Provide senior leaders with clear readiness assessments, risk summaries, and decision points and build repeatable processes
Qualifications
Minimum
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
3+ years of software development experience
5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Preferred
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
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership