AMER Data Center Delivery Operations Program Manager, Infrastructure

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The AWS Data Center Delivery Operations team is searching for a passionate and talented Program Manager to own the operating rhythm of our AMER Capacity Delivery organization. AWS is at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry delivering data center capacity at unprecedented pace and scale. This role owns the mechanisms that keep our leaders informed and our teams aligned including monthly goal reviews weekly and cross-organizational business reviews and the end-to-end headcount planning cycle. This is a high impact role offering the opportunity to work directly with senior leaders business operations partners and finance to raise the bar on how we plan review and communicate progress against our goals. The ideal candidate is an owner with strong business judgment exceptional written communication a bias for building mechanisms that scale and the ability to align cross-functional teams and drive work to closure.

Key job responsibilities
Owning and running the monthly goal review mechanisms for the organization. This includes preparing and coordinating goal status inputs driving the standard reporting format managing the review calendar and ensuring leaders have a clear accurate view of progress ahead of each review.

Leading the operating cadence of business reviews across the team and organization including the Weekly Business Review (WBR) and other cross-business reviews. This involves coordinating content owners managing deck preparation and setting and enforcing corrections and submission deadlines so content is decision-ready.

Managing the headcount planning process end to end. This includes operating plan cycles top-down and bottom-up alignment and partnering with finance and headcount POCs on artifacts and timelines.

Serving as the connective tissue between leadership business operations finance and functional teams translating leadership priorities into clear operating mechanisms and following up to closure on action items and decisions.

Identifying opportunities to simplify standardize and automate recurring reporting reducing manual effort and cycle times while improving quality and consistency.

Communicating clearly to a range of stakeholders and executives through high-quality narratives executive summaries and review documents that make the story clear for a senior audience.

A day in the life
Each day you will interact with the teams and leaders responsible for planning and delivering data center capacity. You will prioritize the activities that are most impactful to the operating rhythm and to leadership visibility.

Start your morning finalizing the inputs for an upcoming monthly goal review.
Reconcile a set of WBR corrections against a deadline.
Partner with finance on a headcount comparison for the next planning cycle.
Edit a leadership narrative before it goes out.
Move between the details of a spreadsheet and a room with senior leaders trusted to run the mechanism so leaders can focus on the decisions.

About the team
Join the AWS Data Center Planning & Delivery team where we are not just building data centers we are architecting the future of cloud computing. You will join a tight-knit business operations function supporting AMER Capacity Delivery. We value ownership clear writing and mechanisms that scale. This role works across the organization and with partner teams giving you broad visibility into how AWS plans and delivers data center capacity.

- 4 years of program or project management experience
- 4 years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

- 4 years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences experience
- 4 years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes project management and schedules

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Herndon - 74200.00 - 129800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 82700.00 - 129800.00 USD annually