AWS Carbon Assurance Lead, AWS Global Sustainability

This role serves as the carbon assurance program lead for AWS Global Sustainability, owning end-to-end coordination of third-party assurance, methodology change management, and recast processes across Carbon (Scope 1, 2, 3).

About the role

In collaboration with Amazon’s central Carbon Measurement and Governance team, the AWS Carbon Assurance Lead will prepare AWS for assurance cycles, ensuring the AWS footprint components are of high quality, in alignment with measurement standards (e.g., GHG Protocol), and sufficiently documented to pass third-party assurance. The role will continually enhance AWS assurance readiness and internal controls, working alongside product managers, engineers, scientists, and business leaders to develop solutions for measurement, accounting, and assurance.

This role directly impacts the product feature roadmap of the AWS Sustainability console, enabling AWS customers to measure, track, and reduce their environmental impact. It coordinates acceptable request changes to emission factors, activity data, and/or calculation methodology relevant to AWS that may impact Amazon’s carbon footprint. The role ensures changes to carbon measurements and methodologies are scientifically credible, properly validated, accurately reflected in reporting, and compliant with standards. It supports Amazon's sustainability goals through precise quantification and verification of environmental impact.

The ideal candidate has specialized knowledge of corporate sustainability methodology, accounting, assurance, and reporting best practices, along with strong analytical abilities. Data-driven decision-making is core to Amazon’s culture, and the ideal candidate applies sustainability principles to real-world data and accounting challenges. They have experience interacting with customers, vendors, or external partners and building trusting relationships. A passion for helping customers on their sustainability journey and launching innovative products is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end third-party assurance engagements for AWS, including provider selection, contracts, work orders, POs, and timeline coordination. Partner with Amazon and AWS data owners (Legal, Finance, Procurement) to ensure data, boundaries, and documentation meet company-wide and assurance standards.
• Coordinate and manage timelines and decisions for the AWS Sustainability Console recast processes, including trigger event management and high-judgement threshold decisions.
• Own the AWS assurance improvement plan for continuous efficiency and efficacy of the carbon assurance process.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and scientists to support the launch of new product features that benefit Amazon customers and improve the customer experience.
• Resolve complex sustainability-related inquiries from customers and provide recommendations to product engineering teams for long-term fixes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and managing large, complex programs.
• Experience working with and managing third-party vendors or similar environments.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in sustainability reporting, assurance, or environmental data management.
• Strong understanding of carbon accounting frameworks (GHG Protocol, Scope 1/2/3) and/or water stewardship standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with external assurance processes (e.g., ISAE 3000, ISAE 3410, or similar standards).
• Familiarity with methodology change request (MCR) processes and scientific documentation.
• Background in sustainability data systems, carbon footprint tools, or environmental reporting platforms.
• Experience working in a matrixed organization with distributed data ownership.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification.

Pay

USA, WA, Seattle - $139,500.00 - $188,700.00 USD annually.

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

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