Can someone please explain the difference between Amazon Technical Product vs Program Manager? At Microsoft Technical Program Managers do both the product management as well functional spec level work. How that work is done at Amazon? I know that Amazon has pure business product managers as well. And Microsoft also has business program managers. #productmanager #pm #amazon Current TC: $0
Product Managers (PM) and Product Managers - Technical (PM-T) are both Product Managers. This means that they own the product, the user experience, the vision, the KPIs, they prioritize the features, etc. The Alexa and Kindle divisions are the only ones that have PM-T (in addition to PM). The PM-T go through a technical interview (the PMs don’t) and they are slightly more involved with the engineering teams. The Technical Program Manager (TPM) owns the execution, ie the timelines, the team dependencies, the risks, the communication strategy with all stakeholders, etc. Take a look at https://engineerseekingfire.com/differences-between-product-program-engineering-marketing-managers/ for more details.
Thanks for the detail. Actually the role I am interviewing for sounds very much like a product manager role and has a TPM title and reports to a Dev Mgr. This team is not part of Alexa or Kindle. The product is not external customer facing but has the direct impact on external customers. Below is the brief description: - Collaboration with business stakeholders and technical teams to define roadmap - Leading cross functional development teams from design through delivery - Participate and lead Operational Excellence activities - Prioritization of feature delivery across multiple teams - Defining strategy and requirements to meet our customer’s needs
Sounds more like a TPM (Technical Program Manager) role/description to me