Amazon Principal Program Manager

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Posted date: Oct 25, 2024

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Location: Seattle, WA

Estimated salary: $165,700
Range: $124,900 - $206,500


Description

This role will own worldwide programs that enable AWS sales and technical teams to progress Amazon Q Developer sales opportunities with our customers. The mission of Next Generation Developer Experience Team in the AWS GenAI GTM organization is to create and leverage mechanisms that increase the velocity of Amazon Q Developer sales, from top-of-funnel lead-generation to launching and scaling customers’ generative AI productions. The team is part of a larger organization in AWS that is comprised of business development, solutions architecture, and program management professionals who execute on the company’s go-to-market strategy across AWS.

Expectations for this role include proposing and managing worldwide initiatives in sales enablement, proof-of-concept (POC) funding, event/executive engagements, and sales-content management. We expect the person in this role to work across multiple teams and geographies/time zones, requiring them to communicate clearly and effectively through Amazon business narratives/writing, weekly updates, and leveraging data to report the status of their projects and unlock business insights for leaders. The role will interface with AWS sales, technical, finance, enablement, and business development leaders, giving this role exciting visibility and scope to Think Big and Invent & Simplify for internal and external customers. Given generative AI is a new and evolving domain, this role will deal with ambiguity, regular stakeholder alignment and feedback, process changes, and prioritization.

Key job responsibilities

We expect the Principal PM to:

-Drive and Own strategic sales enablement programs. Maintain productive weekly/bi-weekly meetings with stakeholders, partner teams, and cross-functional teams

-Write Amazon internal business documents effectively and clearly, using anecdotes and data to share insights

-Dive into available data in Excel, QuickSight, etc., to unlock insights and health of initiatives

-Drive stakeholders and partners teams to complete tasks and objectives required for initiatives’ success

-Use project-reporting tools to indicate status of deliverables on a regular basis

-Possess executive presence in discussing initiatives and advising, persuading leaders on decisions

A day in the life

A day in the life of this role might include: Act as the single threaded owner of multiple strategic programs within the team. Pulling data from our dashboards to report enablement activities of specialized AI/ML teams. Summarizing the data into 3-4 sentences with recommended actions for regional team leaders to drive actions where adoption is less-than-planned. Conducting meetings with a partner team to review your 5-page document to align on their deliverables of enablement assets and the overall strategy. Hosting a meeting for GTM and Engineering leaders to review enablement outcomes with sales and technical field leaders, taking note of action items and distributing these after the meeting and tracking them in a spreadsheet with ongoing follow-up. Taking a training and reading documentation to learn about new features in our customer relationship management tools to help sales people with generative AI pipeline management.

About the team

The Next Generation Developer Experience Team works on strategic, company-wide initiatives that help AWS sales and technical builders more efficiently serve their customers at all stages of the developer tooling sales opportunity lifecycle.

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Qualifications

- 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

- 7+ years of program or project management experience

- 7+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience

- Bachelor's degree

- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization

- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements



Extended Qualifications

- Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality

- 10+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience

- MBA

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $124,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $206,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.



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