Senior Program Manager, Conversational Shopping, AFS

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead initiatives that reduce defects and improve product quality for Alexa for Shopping, Amazon's AI-powered conversational shopping assistant.

This is an opportunity to join the high-performing team that makes it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their unique needs by helping with product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering specific product questions, and more.

This role is inherently high-visibility and highly cross-functional, requiring collaboration and influence across partner teams, product, design, science, evaluations and engineering.

Key job responsibilities

You will own the program to identify and reduce the key defects impacting the assistant's quality score, with accountability for driving the organization toward an ambitious goal. The ideal candidate is an AI-forward program leader who can understand complex AI/LLM quality problems, diagnose what is driving gaps in customer experience, and translate those gaps into clear priorities and actions. You must be comfortable understanding how AI systems behave, interpreting evaluation signals, challenging root-cause analysis, and influencing technical teams to deliver measurable improvements.

Own the quality improvement strategy: Establish the roadmap, priorities, mechanisms, and success metrics to achieve high-priority goals, focusing teams on the highest-impact defects. Drive an integrated, end-to-end quality improvement program across agents, evaluation infrastructure, and related workstreams, with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.

Diagnose AI quality gaps: Partner with Science, Product, Engineering, and evaluation teams to interpret AI/LLM behaviors, evaluation signals, and customer-impacting defects; lead rigorous RCA to identify systemic root causes, risks, dependencies, and blockers, and drive resolution through data-backed recommendations and clear tradeoffs.

Drive cross-functional resolution: Translate complex AI problems into clear actions, influence product roadmaps without direct authority, and establish an operating cadence that drives accountability, surfaces progress, risks, and gaps, and enables timely leadership decisions to deliver measurable quality improvements.

• Own the executive narrative: Establish mechanisms to track progress and cumulative impact, identify where the program is off-track, and provide senior leadership with clear insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Operate with a strong bias for action, removing obstacles and driving fast, iterative delivery while maintaining focus on quality and measurable outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience managing conflict, escalations, negotiating compromise, influencing others and problem solving with engineering teams
• Experience with AI/ML, Generative AI, LLMs, conversational AI, or AI-powered products, with the ability to diagnose ambiguous quality problems and translate complex concepts into actionable priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
• Knowledge of general AI tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop crisp narratives and effectively communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, and outcomes to senior leadership.

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, NY, New York - 127,200.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually