Senior Program Manager - Technical, Visual Reasoning Initiatives

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.

Drive the future of computer vision and agentic AI as a Senior Program Manager - Technical on our Visual Reasoning team where you'll coordinate cutting-edge initiatives that transform how businesses leverage advanced visual reasoning and intelligent agents to solve complex operational challenges. Join a startup-like environment within AWS Applied AI Solutions where you'll work with world-class research scientists, engineers, product managers, and UI/UX designers to bring novel visual reasoning solutions—spanning computer vision, agentic AI, and user experiences—from concept to production.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Program Manager - Technical to join our Visual Reasoning New Initiatives team. This person will be responsible for orchestrating the execution of complex multi-year programs that bring our Visual Reasoning solutions from internal pilots to production deployment across customer sites. This person will work closely with cross-functional research scientists, engineers, product managers, and UI/UX designers to define technical roadmaps, manage program milestones, coordinate deployments, and drive the operational readiness required to scale Visual Reasoning solutions. In this startup-like environment you'll tackle problems that haven't been solved at scale before—where much is still unknown and we're moving fast. You'll integrate cutting-edge visual reasoning capabilities using Visual Question Answering (VQA) for computer vision and agentic AI for intelligent user experiences playing a critical role in turning ambitious ideas into production-ready systems.

• Key job responsibilities
• •Work with engineering, research, UI/UX, and product teams to translate business requirements into technical and functional specifications for Visual Reasoning solutions
• •Define technical roadmaps for engineering and research teams by partnering with Science and Software Development Managers to align on priorities, milestones, and delivery timelines
• •Support launch of Visual Reasoning solutions across new applications, customer verticals, and deployment formats
• •Provide regular updates to senior leadership (VP and SVP level) on program status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies
• •Build comprehensive project plans that balance business needs with project risks, resource availability, and technical constraints
• •Drive engineering project execution by making technical trade-offs, tracking progress, reporting status, and resolving blocking issues
• •Coordinate cross-team efforts across research, engineering, and infrastructure teams

• A day in the life
• Your day begins with a coordinating stand-up with research scientists, engineers, and product managers to align on program milestones, execution status, and tackle blocking issues. From there you might jump on calls with external customers to understand their operational needs, technical constraints, integration requirements with their existing systems, and deployment strategies-all critical inputs that inform our technical roadmap. You will spend time defining the technical roadmap for the next 3-6 months aligning with principals across all workstreams on priorities, technical challenges, dependencies, and the architectural decisions needed to move forward. You will craft bi-weekly updates and co-author monthly updates for VP/SVP leadership distilling complex program status into strategic insights. But the role is not just strategic-you will also roll up your sleeves to solve hands-on deployment problems whether that is troubleshooting hardware shipments stuck in a warehouse, navigating space constraints in a customer MDF, or writing installation SOPs for local IT teams deploying our systems. In this startup-like environment you will balance strategic planning with tactical execution, moving fluidly between high-level roadmap discussions and on-the-ground problem-solving, all while transforming ambitious ideas into production-ready solutions.

• About the team
• 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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Basic qualifications

• - 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 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
• - Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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