Job Description
DESCRIPTION
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Amazon is seeking a Program Manager 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 the Program Manager, you will lead a variety of projects with significant scope and impact, supporting several different areas of the business. In this role, you will work to deliver value to the customer, manage sanctions risk, and track and drive the timeline of multiple projects. The program is cross functional and requires strong 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, tech, operations, 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 end-to-end project management to improve denied party and sanctions screening systems and processes.
As a Program Manager, you will anticipate 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.
In this role, you will:
- Develop and manage projects from beginning to end, including project scope, timeline, capacity planning, resource allocation, and project execution.
- Proactively manage change control and communicate impact in project scope, identify issues, and devising contingency plans.
- Identify and manage project dependencies, risk based prioritization and critical paths.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using project management tools.
- Work independently and remain flexible, with the ability to prioritize workloads and maintain resilient attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
About the team
About AmSec
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
Job Tags
Full time, Remote job, Flexible hours,