Program Manager, AWS Developer Experience

Are you a strategic thinker who thrives on bringing order to complexity? Do you have a talent for orchestrating multiple projects while keeping stakeholders aligned and teams motivated? Can you translate big-picture goals into actionable roadmaps that deliver results? If you're someone who combines organizational skills with leadership ability, we want to hear from you!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Program Manager to join our team in Sydney, Australia. In this role, you will be driving our critical developer initiatives from conception to delivery. You will be navigating ambiguity, managing multiple workstreams, working with stakeholders across all levels in the organization.


Key job responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end program management of cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and successful delivery
• Develop and maintain program plans, including timelines, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements
• Partner with senior leadership to define program strategy, success metrics, and key deliverables
• Drive effective stakeholder management across multiple business units, maintaining clear communication channels and managing expectations
• Monitor program budgets and resource allocation, ensuring efficient use of resources
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance program delivery methods and team effectiveness

A day in the life
Your morning may kick off with crafting and distributing status updates for major workstreams, highlighting key metrics, blockers, and upcoming milestones to DevEx leaders. After running an standup where you help the team resolve blockers, you pivot to writing the monthly business reviews gathering data points and ensuring your narrative communicates both successes and areas needing attention.

The afternoon brings a different pace as you lead a cross functional meetings to plan for an upcoming developer event working on key themes, speakers, technical topics and logistics. In the evening, you might attend a local developer meetup and gather critical feedback about a new product launch. Throughout the day, you maintain your careful balance of strategic thinking and hands-on problem solving, ensuring both the big picture and daily details receive the attention they need.

About the team
The Developer Experience team's mission is to explore the future of development so that we can help developers navigate a path to that future. Our goal is inspire developers around the world. We show them how to practically use the new technologies to build efficiently in the cloud. We show them new things they are now able to achieve, both in tackling more complex cloud problems and building new solutions that leverage generative AI. We earn trust with developers by being authentic, and by being practitioners ourselves. We are on an exciting journey together, and not everything is solved yet.

Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of program or project management experience
- 8+ years of leading large complex programs experience
- Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)
- Experience in vendor management
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Technology management, or a related field
- Proficiency in project management tools and software (e.g. Asana)
- Experience managing program budgets and resources

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in stakeholder management, including influencing executive level global leaders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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