Workforce Development Manager, AWS Workforce Development

Application deadline: Jun 8, 2026

Are you passionate about building meaningful workforce development partnerships with local stakeholders? Do you thrive on the challenge of designing innovative programs and fresh approaches to workforce development? Amazon is seeking a dynamic team member to do exactly that, playing a key role in driving our economic development initiatives forward.

Key job responsibilities

• Create and lead a portfolio of programs within our team's broader efforts to develop sustainable and durable economic and work force development partnerships in communities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders (e.g. political, economic development, and education leaders, faculty, and employers) and internal teams (e.g. infrastructure, training, public relations, public policy, and recruiting).
• Drive successful implementation, including curriculum and program development, educator professional development, employer engagement, collaboration with government, non-profit organizations, and other workforce development organizations.
• Create strategically aligned workforce development plans that meet the short and long term needs of expansion projects
• Manage program deliverables within budgetary, resourcing, and scheduling requirements against defined project milestones and deadlines.
• Systematically assess existing workforce development offerings against evolving labor market demands, expansion timelines, and community partner capabilities to identify where current programs fall short or where new programs are needed.
• Work with the research and analysis team to map in-demand workforce competencies and evaluate program effectiveness of existing and new program offerings.

A day in the life

The role will be responsible for identifying evolving opportunities and leading an entrepreneurial approach to developing new solutions and approaches, building consensus internally and externally, iterating through real world pilot launches, fostering adoption, and driving implementation to scale. This includes analyzing labor demand and supply side dynamics, building novel partnership models and approaches, marshaling internal and external resources, aligning external political leadership, and partnering with other allied employers and educational institutions.

About the team

AWS Economic Development is a part of the Global Public Policy team. We work seamlessly with our public policy teammates, internal customers, and partners across Amazon.com to drive a robust and highly successful portfolio of data center infrastructure-based workforce development programs.