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Senior Program Manager, Amazon Talent & Compensation

Amazon · Arlington, VA · 2 wk ago
ManagementFull-time

Key job responsibilities

  • Manage full lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
  • Engaging with and coordinating work between product, UX design, technical and analytics teams. Developing go-to-market and change management strategy and assets.
  • Development of the overall program strategy, aligning plans with senior leadership, and tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
  • Define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data and drive improvements that are quantified with metrics
  • Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment, seeking to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
  • Partner with teams across the business you support and beyond to source, allocate, and coordinate resources
  • Oversee gaps between teams, processes and systems, helping teams reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, security not considered, insufficient stakeholder review, etc.)
  • Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks
  • Work with program managers, business leaders and executive team to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
  • Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of program or project management experience
  • Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
  • Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
  • Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment
  • Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams

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