Amazon Photos is seeking an experienced and results-oriented Release Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead and optimize release train management across iOS, Android, Web, and Amazon devices such as Fire TV and Echo Show. In this role, you will be responsible for managing complex, multi-surface release trains, ensuring that all teams are aligned, schedules are met, and high-quality releases are delivered on time. This includes synchronizing and managing dependencies across multiple surfaces and teams to ensure that features are released in a coordinated and efficient manner.

As the TPM for release train management, you will work closely with engineering, QA, product, marketing, and UX teams to create a structured, repeatable release process. You will be the central point of communication for all release activities, tracking progress, identifying bottlenecks, and driving resolution. Your role will also involve managing the cadence of release cycles, ensuring consistency, and continuously improving the release process.

WHO YOU ARE
You thrive on the complexity of managing multiple releases simultaneously across a range of surfaces and devices. You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and excel at coordinating teams to achieve successful product launches. You have a deep understanding of release management and are experienced in managing release trains, ensuring that features and updates are delivered on time and with high quality. Your ability to manage dependencies, mitigate risks, deep dive into technical details, and communicate effectively makes you an invaluable leader in cross-functional collaboration. You are looking for a place to apply your technical and program management expertise, filling a critical role along side mission-driven engineering, QA, product, marketing and UX teams. You know how to improve the quality and speed of delivery by gathering high quality requirements, driving toward the right architectural outcomes, and by identifying, tracking and communicating the path to delivery within and across the organization. Always looking for ways for us to improve, you identify and create mechanisms which will help us raise the bar on the next release.

Key job responsibilities
- Own and manage the release train across iOS, Android, web, Fire TV, and Echo Show surfaces, ensuring that all releases are synchronized and delivered on schedule.
- Establish and maintain a release cadence, creating a structured, repeatable release process that aligns with Agile development practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, marketing, UX, and QA teams to make sure we are architecting, planning, and on track to deliver high quality customer experiences and high quality releases, making scalable long-term technical decisions while meeting our commitments.
- Coordinate dependencies across backend services and client applications, ensuring smooth and integrated releases across all surfaces.
- Lead release train ceremonies, including planning, status reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives to streamline the release process.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks or bottlenecks that may impact the release timeline or quality.
- Track and communicate release status, ensuring that leadership and stakeholders are informed of progress, risks, and decisions.
- Continuously improve release processes, introducing new mechanisms or tools to optimize quality, speed, and efficiency.
- Ensure post-release retrospectives are conducted to identify areas of improvement and drive implementation of action items to elevate future releases.

About the team

Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.