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Manager, Program Management, Denied Party Screening
Amazon.comUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Jun 2024
💰 $189,300/yr($114,500/yr – $189,300/yr)
About the role
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
As a Manager, Program Management, in the Denied Party Screening (DPS) team, you'll be responsible for leading a team of program managers owning several end to end projects to mitigate sanctions risk and onboard clients onto the DPS screening system.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon is seeking a Manager, Program Management, to join a centralized Denied Party Screening (DPS) team focused on denied party and sanctions screening systems and processes. This team enables Amazon to comply with regulations as well as understand and manage sanctions risk.
As a Manager, Program Management, you will lead a team of program with significant scope and cross-functional impact, supporting projects across a number of different areas of the business. In this role, you will work to deliver value to the customer, manage sanctions risk, and track and drive roadmap prioritization. The program is cross functional and requires communication skills to coordinate onsite and remote work with teams across the globe. In this capacity, you will gain valuable exposure to many areas within our global business.
You will coordinate with DPS management, Amazon Legal, and multiple other teams in the development of project management standards and other efforts that enable operations and manage risk. You will be responsible for managing multiple end to end projects simultaneously to onboard customers onto Amazon’s denied party screening systems.
As a Manager, Program Management, you will own anticipated bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance customer and business needs versus resource constraints. We value personality, insight, intellectual flexibility, and sound business judgment. We also value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
A day in the life
•Lead, develop, and motivate a team of program/project managers to meet critical business objectives in a deadline-driven environment.
•Work with cross-functional stakeholders across tech and non-tech roles to drive roadmap and communicate program vision.
•Own and drive a portfolio of projects, leading resource allocation, and roadmap prioritization and communication. Proactively manage change control and communicate impacts to project scope, identify issues, and devising contingency plans.
•Identify and manage project dependencies, leverage risk based prioritization and escalation paths to flag any blockers to senior leadership.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
- 5+ years of team management experience
- 5+ years of cross functional project delivery experience
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Bachelor's degree
Seattle, WA, USA
As a Manager, Program Management, in the Denied Party Screening (DPS) team, you'll be responsible for leading a team of program managers owning several end to end projects to mitigate sanctions risk and onboard clients onto the DPS screening system.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon is seeking a Manager, Program Management, to join a centralized Denied Party Screening (DPS) team focused on denied party and sanctions screening systems and processes. This team enables Amazon to comply with regulations as well as understand and manage sanctions risk.
As a Manager, Program Management, you will lead a team of program with significant scope and cross-functional impact, supporting projects across a number of different areas of the business. In this role, you will work to deliver value to the customer, manage sanctions risk, and track and drive roadmap prioritization. The program is cross functional and requires communication skills to coordinate onsite and remote work with teams across the globe. In this capacity, you will gain valuable exposure to many areas within our global business.
You will coordinate with DPS management, Amazon Legal, and multiple other teams in the development of project management standards and other efforts that enable operations and manage risk. You will be responsible for managing multiple end to end projects simultaneously to onboard customers onto Amazon’s denied party screening systems.
As a Manager, Program Management, you will own anticipated bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance customer and business needs versus resource constraints. We value personality, insight, intellectual flexibility, and sound business judgment. We also value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
A day in the life
•Lead, develop, and motivate a team of program/project managers to meet critical business objectives in a deadline-driven environment.
•Work with cross-functional stakeholders across tech and non-tech roles to drive roadmap and communicate program vision.
•Own and drive a portfolio of projects, leading resource allocation, and roadmap prioritization and communication. Proactively manage change control and communicate impacts to project scope, identify issues, and devising contingency plans.
•Identify and manage project dependencies, leverage risk based prioritization and escalation paths to flag any blockers to senior leadership.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of team management experience
- 5+ years of cross functional project delivery experience
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Bachelor's degree
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