Senior Program Manager - Technical, Visual Reasoning Initiatives

Amazon
USA, WA, Seattle2026-01-21ONSITE

About the job

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.

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

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