Description

Do you love working with diverse set of customers and engineers? Are you excited about bringing clarity and delivering through ambiguity? Do you want to deliver initiatives that make it easy for builders, security and compliance teams to drive better security outcomes? Are you keen on solving problems that no other company has solved?

Security Foundations team is looking for an experienced Senior Manager (Technical Program Manager) who will lead a team to design and deliver security risk and compliance outcomes that positively impact our security posture at scale for Amazon customers and builders. You will partner with security and engineering leaders across Amazon businesses to work backwards from customer security and compliance outcomes, design initiatives to achieve those outcomes, and drive delivery against those commitments. You will operate amidst ambiguity, where the problem and strategy may not be defined. You will deliver clarity by leading through your team and collaborating with partner teams to define the strategic vision, and influence program and product roadmaps and strategies that will realize that vision. You will be responsible for cultivating and maintaining a high-performing organization. As you lead a team of technical program managers, you will be responsible for skill development and career growth of your team members.

The right person for this role is an experienced leader and people manager with technical knowledge, business acumen, and a security-first mindset. Characteristics that will make this leader effective include demonstrated abilities to: [1] dive deep into complex problem spaces while maintaining focus on the larger strategic objectives, [2] build trust and negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes with partners through transparency and delivery on commitments, and [3] communicate with clarity and candor to distill complex topics into simple terms while practicing respect for diverse ideas.

Key job responsibilities

• You will partner with security and engineering leaders across Amazon business and security teams to work backwards from customer security and compliance outcomes, design initiatives to achieve those outcomes, and drive delivery against those commitments.

• You will be responsible for cultivating and maintaining a high-performing team. As you lead a team of technical program managers, you will be responsible for skill development and career growth of your team members.

• You will operate amidst ambiguity, where the problem and strategy may not be defined. You will deliver clarity by leading through your team and collaborating with partner teams to define the strategic vision, and influence program and product roadmaps and strategies that will realize that vision.

• You will bring strong business and technical acumen to apply data-driven judgements and influence product, program, and architecture decisions.

• You will support your team in driving business and program reviews, aligning with stakeholders, and establishing mechanisms to continuously improve execution.

• You will be representing verbally and in writing complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to senior security and business leaders.

About the team

About AmSec:

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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.

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 and 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing security engineering, risk, or governance teams

• 10+ years of technical product or program management experience working directly with engineering teams

• 5+ years of relevant people management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Academic or equivalent work experience operating in engineering, computer science, or other technology fields

• Experience managing programs and products across cross functional teams, and building processes delivering security outcomes

• Experience writing and speaking to present risks or decisions to an executive audience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $175,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $302,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.