Amazon: What is the difference in the roles Product manager, program manager and TPM?
Nov 6, 2017
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At Microsoft there is only one title Program manager hence the difference is not clear to me. It is not very clear to me what each of the titles above at Amazon are about. Could someone explain with an example product/project/feature? Who do these three types of role at Amazon report to? What different skills are required for each of these roles?
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That's my basic understanding. I've never heard of a "program manager" here so idk what that is either.
Pm = product manager
Product Managers do strategy, roadmap, metrics, product direction, product definition, monetization, customer requirements etc. classic industry product job.
Amazon also has the Program Manager job and it’s non-tech, basically business operations.
Usually you don't have all 3 at the same time since they overlap a lot