Are you a strategic thinker who thrives on bringing order to complexity? Do you have a talent for orchestrating multiple projects while keeping stakeholders aligned and teams motivated? Can you translate big-picture goals into actionable roadmaps that deliver results? If you're someone who combines organizational skills with leadership ability, we want to hear from you!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our team in India. In this role, you will be driving our most critical developer initiatives from conception to delivery. You will be navigating ambiguity, managing multiple workstreams working with stakeholders across all levels in the organization.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end program management of complex, cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and successful delivery
• Develop and maintain program plans, including timelines, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements
• Partner with senior leadership to define program strategy, success metrics, and key deliverables
• Drive effective stakeholder management across multiple business units, maintaining clear communication channels and managing expectations
• Monitor program budgets and resource allocation, ensuring efficient use of resources
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance program delivery methods and team effectiveness
A day in the life
Your morning may kick off with distributing status updates for major workstreams, highlighting key metrics, blockers, and upcoming milestones. You might then run a standup where you help the team resolve blockers, then pivot to writing the monthly business reviews gathering data points and ensuring your narrative communicates both successes and areas needing attention. In the afternoon you might lead a cross functional meetings to plan for an upcoming developer event.
Throughout the day, you will maintain a balance between strategic thinking and hands-on problem solving, ensuring both the big picture and daily details receive the attention they need.
About the team
The Developer Experience team's mission is to explore the future of development so that we can help developers navigate a path to that future. Our goal is inspire developers around the world. We show them how to practically use the new technologies to build efficiently in the cloud. We show them new things they are now able to achieve, both in tackling more complex cloud problems and building new solutions that leverage generative AI. We earn trust with developers by being authentic, and by being practitioners ourselves. We are on an exciting journey together, and not everything is solved yet. - Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Technology management, or a related field
- 15+ years of experience in program management, project management, or related fields
- Proven track record of successfully delivering complex, multi-faceted programs in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to tailor messaging to diverse audiences
- Proficiency in project management tools and software (e.g., JIRA, Asana)
- Experience managing program budgets and resources- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management, including executive-level engagement
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions
- Experience in vendor management and third-party partnerships
- Proven track record of mentoring junior program managers and building high-performing teams
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