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Sr. Technical Program Manager, WW Sustainability

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    27 days ago

    Job Description

    Join us at the forefront of Amazon"s sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon"s long term worldwide sustainability strategy. Amazon"s Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) team works to build a sustainable business for our customers and the planet. Within WWS, the Sustainability Science & Innovation (SSI) team advances Amazon"s sustainability commitments through applied science, data analytics, and strategic research programs - translating complex environmental and supply chain challenges into actionable intelligence for Amazon"s business units.

    You"ll lead lead cross-organizational coordination and external collaboration for a high-priority sustainability science programs within SSI. You will be the operational anchor for a multi-stakeholder program - managing internal alignment across business units, driving external partnership execution with research institutions and industry bodies, and owning the program"s delivery rhythm from roadmap to executive reporting. This role requires someone who can operate comfortably at the boundary between technical and business domains, build trust with senior stakeholders across organizational lines, and keep complex, multi-workstream programs on track without close supervision. You"ll lead mechanisms that translate breakthrough science into scalable pilots and Amazon workflows, establishing best practices that compound impact across the organization.

    This is a high-visibility role requiring the ability to influence technical direction across Amazon, drive alignment with senior leadership on multi-year investments, and serve as a thought leader bridging science, product, and business strategy.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own stakeholder engagement across teams within WWS and SSI - securing data and resource commitments, aligning on shared deliverables, and maintaining consistent messaging across all stakeholder touchpoints
    • Drive data and information-sharing agreements across teams, including access governance; facilitate joint planning sessions and translate program outputs into team-level action plans
    • Manage the operational cadence of Amazon"s external research partnerships - including academic institutions, national laboratories, and government-funded research programs - tracking deliverables and milestones
    • Own the program roadmap - translating science and engineering priorities into a sequenced set of data products and decision-support tools; drive the program"s weekly and quarterly update cadence to Director-level stakeholders; negotiate resources and priorities across contributing teams and unblock work before it stalls
    • Build and maintain governance structures for program operations, including data access policies, budget tracking, and decision logs; identify and proactively resolve operational bottlenecks before they impact program timelines

    A day in the life

    You"ll own a portfolio of solutions with company-wide impact, working with scientists and engineers across diverse domains, AI/ML teams, TPMs, and business unit stakeholders to orchestrate pilots and drive adoption at scale.

    About the team

    Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a multi-disciplinary team within WW Sustainability science, analytics, economics, statistics, machine learning, and engineering expertise. We use data across the sustainability imperatives (carbon, water, waste, biodiversity, environmental risk and more) and these skills and capabilities to identify, develop, experiment, and scale the scientific solutions and innovations necessary for Amazon, customers and partners to help them solve their hardest unmet and evolving sustainability needs and goals.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
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    Skills

    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
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    • Biodiversityunmatched
    • Budget Managementunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Cadenceunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Decision Supportunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Environmental Workunmatched
    • Government Fundingunmatched
    • Green Businessunmatched
    • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
    • Laboratoryunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • Operations Managementunmatched
    • Product Strategyunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • SSIunmatched
    • Statisticsunmatched
    • Supply Chainunmatched
    • Sustainabilityunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
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