Sr. Strategic Partner Program Manager, APO, Global Business Innovation Transformation At Scale

Do you like helping customers and partners solve tough technical problems? Do you have experience with managing large scale enterprise transformations and migrations? Do you want to be part of a team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that’s helping partners and customers successfully migrate/implement IT solutions? Do you want to help launch a major strategic initiative for AWS and grow it globally?

As a Program Manager, Global Programs - Enterprise Transformation, you will manage large and strategic programs to support enterprise customer transformations. You will lead and deliver on program executables such as: contracting, billing/funding, training management, tracking project schedules and quality, and aligning the GSIs to partner programs and competencies as needed.

This is an ideal role for someone who has experience working for a Global System Integrator (GSI), a large IT consulting firm, or a Fortune 1000 company coupled with working knowledge of AWS, Cloud Economics, Business Case Development, Large Program management and executive interactions. In this role, you will develop and support an Enterprise Transformation Program working with global partners. This is a team effort which requires the ability to lead, influence, and coordinate with many stakeholders. If you are a problem solver with broad program management skills, solid technical breadth, and have the ability to drive initiatives and cloud migration projects with GSIs - you will enjoy this role!


Key job responsibilities
• Own the Program Management of strategic deals and enterprise transformation between the partner, customer and AWS.
• Develop best practices, scalable mechanisms and repeatable processes on all aspects of the pre-sale, detailed design and post-sale of strategic deals and enterprise transformations.
• Program tracking and common project management principles (agile development and project management methods, e.g. SCRUM); mapping complex combinations of resources against objectives, track dependencies and risk, assess impact of change across interdependent workstreams and projects
• Experience working with global teams
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and develop programs to enable the partners
• Tracking strategic deals metrics with the partners and provide visibility to the senior leadership team on a regular basis
• Lead and improve program operational & reporting procedures (activities, goals, funding, budgeting, etc.)
• Participate in workshops, design sessions and other program management activates to drive program adoption by the partner and customer
• Organize workshops and facilitate the sharing of knowledge across the customer, partner and AWS teams
• Work closely with Partner Development Managers, Solution Architects, AWS Professional Services and Account Team during the lifecycle of the Enterprise Transformation from ramp-up through delivery

Position may be located in New York City, NY; Arlington, VA; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Phoenix, AZ; and others. Travel up to 50 % (Post COVID-19 restrictions).


About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Inclusive and Diverse Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Atlanta, GA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Miami,