Senior Program Manager, Mixed Multi Leg and Channel SME

At Amazon, we"re working to be the Earth's most customer-centric company. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon Logistics (AMZL) is seeking a Sr. Program Manager, Tech Subject Matter Expert (SME) to work within the AMZL network. The SME works across technology and operations teams on the prioritization, development, optimization, and sustainment of the technology and related process in order to positively impact customer experience while supporting business growth.

The SME team acts as a catalyst for change by driving innovation at the operator level, prioritizing technology initiatives and supporting engineering design innovations. The SMEs strive to be experts in Amazon's operation systems. They are accountable to delivering world class solutions through optimizing and reinventing the existing technology.

The SME organization are functional experts on the software tools in a given process areas and their application in the AMZL network. As a Sr. Program Manager, you will define the process the team uses to deliver best in class tech to the field. This team looks for ways to automate human decision making by influencing Technology to build and update tools that reduce process complexity to deliver robust processes.

• Travel approx. 25% to North American Delivery Stations

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with tech organization on the business requirement documents (BRD)
• Highlights areas of business risk and impact for Technology Team resource allocation and provide input on software design to support lean processes and standard work
• Act as gatekeeper for prioritizing software enhancements and feature requests submitted by the sites and serve as the interface with the delivery stations to drive adoption of changes
• Support process improvements, best practice sharing, and standardization across all Amazon Logistics processes using Lean principles
• Measure and establish standard rates for standard work to be used for labor and capacity planning
• Provide metrics inputs that support compliance of standard work and that drives improvements in cost and quality
• Collaborate with counterparts in other functional areas (Safety, Quality, Learning, Loss Prevention) as well as the Operations Engineering team and DS Launch SME team to drive standardization of core process elements to support network growth and scale

A day in the life

You will work with operational teams (Engineering, Quality, Execution) and technical teams (Software Engineers, Product Managers) to drive deliverables according to the operational plan. This includes participating in the cyclical responsibilities of a program, including building the vision and requirements, testing new software and processes, and deploying solutions network wide.