Senior Program Manager, Amazon Scholars, Amazon Scholars

The Amazon Scholar team is seeking a Senior Program Manager to support the Amazon Scholar Program. This global high-impact role supports a program that enables university professors to work on Amazons most significant scientific and technical challenges without leaving their academic institutions through part-time or limited-term engagements.

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for facilitating key milestones across the Scholar employee lifecycle and for defining and delivering mechanisms and solutions that resolve complex problems create lasting value and drive broad cross-organizational and cross-regional business impact.

This role supports a global program end-to-end defining and executing development goals consulting business and science leaders developing a communication strategy and managing all associated workflows. The Senior Program Manager builds internal mechanisms to automate and scale workflows globally and develops sustainable long-term strategies for academic engagement.


Key job responsibilities
- **Process re-engineering and gap identification:** Identifies gaps and opportunities across regions processes and organizations (e.g. workflows tooling operating procedures). Serves as the single-threaded owner for a specialty employee model with non-standard lifecycle policies part-time/limited-term engagement structures and a unique compensation model. Owns a portfolio of critical workstreams to re-engineer processes redefine ownership and drive efficiency requiring cross-functional influence across central People eXperience and Technology (PXT) teams.

- **Mechanism design and adoption:** Creates optimizes and drives adoption of the mechanisms that ensure long-term program success. Builds novel mechanisms and artifacts to sustain the Scholar population force-multiplying through stakeholders and partners while addressing unique use cases.

- **Autonomous leadership in ambiguous domains:** Operates with significant independence in areas where strategy has not yet been defined. Navigates high complexity and ambiguity with customers stakeholders and decision-makers that often include Amazons most senior leadership. The Scholar Program team serves as an overlay across all core PXT functions requiring strong judgment backbone and autonomy to prioritize roadmaps invest resources and deliver results.

- **Data-driven business operations:** Supports Business Operations for Scholars Programs designing reporting to inspect key org goals KPIs and insights through MBRs and QBRs. Defines product requirements for dashboards and influences data availability and decision-making in partner teams for example working with Finance to enable mechanisms that track Scholar program spend as an input to business planning and ROI evaluation.


About the team
We are a team of strategic recruiters and program managers working to bring the best executive-level academic science talent to Amazon and elevate our reputation in the academic science community as an employer of choice. We believe Amazon is a unique place to measure the impact of new scientific ideas given our scale and ownership of both an information infrastructure and a physical infrastructure. The Scholars Programs team focuses on three priorities:

1. Creating simple pathways to hire develop and retain world-class academic talent.
2. Developing internal and academic partnerships globally to address customer problems and demands.
3. Driving a non-conventional program to facilitate long-term science talent acquisition and retention in specialized domains.


- 5 years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- 5 years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Knowledge of general AI tools
- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
- Experience building scalable programs and repeatable scalable processes levering various tools and methods to create scale and efficiency
- Track record of building and scaling complex initiatives within fast-paced technology industry
- Experience with academic institutions or research organizations

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 NY New York - 127200.00 - 185000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 115600.00 - 160000.00 USD annually