Principal Security TPM, AGS Security Engineering

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AWS is building a new security engineering team for the AWS Global Sales (AGS) organization and were looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to help define it from day one. Customers are moving fast especially into generative AI and agentic architectures and the way our field works with them is changing just as quickly. This team is the dedicated function that helps the business and our customers build and innovate fast and securely.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager youll own the security and governance frameworks the AGS field organization runs on and the mechanisms that surface reduce and manage risk across it. Measuring how AGS performs against AWS-wide security standards youll find where risk concentrates and partner with AGS leaders to close gaps. Youll build and manage the programs that keep the fields security reviewer community active calibrated and current. The cross-functional coordination you run with AWS security organizations Legal and segment business leaders accelerates the business while holding a high security bar.

Much of this work runs ahead of established practice. Youll shape how the field secures emerging engagement types. Across the organization youll invent new ways to discover reduce and manage risk at scale. The surface is broad spanning a field engagement program that helps account teams build for customers at scale prototyping engagements public content security reviews internal field tooling and AGS-wide security training and campaigns. The customers behind this work span every size industry and region with varying compliance requirements and every kind of technology stack. This is a ground-floor role with a global remit where youll help define how we work.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the fields security and governance frameworks (customer builds prototyping public content) building on the AWS Security standards and codifying them into the steering docs skills MCPs and agents the field builds with
- Grow the fields security reviewer community recruiting training and accrediting reviewers and keeping their judgment calibrated as technology and threats evolve so security judgment spreads and reviews stay consistent
- Own field security training on the responsibilities and frameworks the field operates within partnering with security engineers and AWS Security on content and Field Enablement on delivery
- Measure AGS against AWS-wide security standards and run the business security review that gives leadership a regular prioritized read on risk partnering with leaders to close gaps and enabling leaders to run their own
- Partner with the business through post-incident follow-through helping it articulate what happened representing it to AWS Security leadership and supporting it in closing the action items it owns
- Own the AGS fields security roadmap balancing near-term wins against long-term shifts in how the field builds so the security bar keeps pace
- Own the governance mechanism for security exceptions and escalations keeping decisions consistent and documented and holding the line when stakeholders challenge the process
- Some travel required (up to 25%)

A day in the life
In the morning you might turn a recurring field security question into a standard that ships straight into the steering docs and agents the field builds with so the next wave of teams can act on it themselves instead of escalating. After the team has worked an issue with Security Operations you take the follow-through helping the business articulate what happened representing it to AWS Security leadership and supporting it in closing the action items it the afternoon you sharpen the reviewer communitys recertification with security engineers so reviews stay consistent as technology shifts. Across the week you measure the field against AWS-wide standards find where risk concentrates and bring them to leadership to prioritize and close.

About the team
This new team is the security engineering function for AWS Global Sales (AGS) helping the field engage customers securely and keeping the business secure. Youll work closely with AWS Account Teams and the fields security community AGS leaders and partner teams across AWS security tooling and legal. Its a senior team with a broad mandate and a high bar and the work protects the customer trust the business depends on.

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- 7 years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field or equivalent experience
- 5 years of security compliance and risk management experience
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

- Experience managing competing priorities and using metrics to drive business decisions
- Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Technology or related fields
- 10 years of technical program management experience leading initiatives that span multiple teams or organizations
- Experience partnering with security engineering application security or legal and compliance functions to land cross-functional security outcomes
- Experience designing and running training accreditation or community-of-practice programs at scale
- Experience using AI agents and automation to scale program execution and risk reduction

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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 CA San Francisco - 203500.00 - 275300.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 194700.00 - 263400.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 177000.00 - 239400.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 177000.00 - 239400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 177000.00 - 239400.00 USD annually