Principal TPM, AWS Plus
Amazon · Seattle, WA
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Jul 15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor program management role embedded within AWS's internal customer organization, responsible for steering large, cross-functional technical programs covering infrastructure capacity, region migrations, service scaling, and AI/ML adoption. The work centers on coordinating multiple simultaneous workstreams across several VP organizations, synthesizing progress into coherent narratives for executive forums, and building mechanisms to surface and resolve risk before it escalates. Suits a technically grounded program manager comfortable advising at the VP/SVP level.
Principal level · 7+ years · Seattle, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 110 people in the Seattle, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 50–170
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $139,113 (middle half $87,748–$176,150).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This is an individual-contributor Technical Program Manager role, not a people-manager role, so 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is preferred over 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers); however, the executive-advisory scope and cross-VP influence make 11-3021 a credible runner-up.
The posting title explicitly says 'Principal,' and the scope — org-wide influence across multiple VP organizations, advising SVPs, owning escalation paths — genuinely supports Principal-level classification rather than just Senior.
The three Basic Qualifications experience demands (7+ years TPM, 10+ years with engineering teams, 5+ years software development) are stated as separate requirements; the overall years minimum is set to 7 (the TPM-specific gate) as the most direct role-level experience floor.
No specific named technologies are hard-gated beyond the experience thresholds. AWS, AI/ML, capacity planning, and cloud infrastructure appear in the role narrative and responsibilities sections rather than in a firm requirements block, so they are marked preferred.
Location is inferred as Seattle, WA based on Amazon/AWS headquarters; the posting does not explicitly state a city or indicate remote eligibility.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): technical program management, engineering team collaboration, software development, capacity planning.
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