Amazon Shipping is building Amazon's next $100B business—making the logistics capabilities that power millions of Amazon deliveries available to any shipper, anywhere. That means launching new services, entering new customer segments, and scaling operations across geographies at a pace that matches the ambition. Each of these moves requires someone who owns the end-to-end delivery across a dozen teams that don't report to them.
As a Sr. Program Manager for Strategic Initiatives, you lead high-priority programs from definition through launch. You figure out how a new capability actually works across operations, technology, sales, finance, and support. You write the requirements, build the plan, identify what will
go wrong, and hold teams accountable to delivering for shippers.
This role is designed for people who get bored doing the same thing for years. You'll rotate across different problem spaces—international expansion, new delivery models, compliance programs, physical network launches—wherever the business needs dedicated program leadership most. When one initiative reaches steady state, you move to the next. Each assignment demands rapid learning, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to drive results across organizational boundaries.
Key job responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives, coordinating across product, operations, sales, marketing, finance, legal, and support teams
- Define business requirements and launch plans that identify dependencies, timelines, and ownership across all impacted teams
- Drive solutions across people, process, and technology—building for future scale, not just the immediate use case
- Identify failure modes and edge cases before launch; challenge teams to address them proactively
- Hold stakeholders accountable to delivery commitments; influence for the resources needed to succeed
- Own success metrics and reporting for assigned initiatives; provide leadership with clear visibility into program health
- Transition programs to steady-state owners at operational maturity, then redeploy to the next high-priority initiative
About the team
We are NOVA, a technical product organization that incubates and grows new revenue-generating businesses for Amazon Shipping. We prove which capabilities, customer segments, and integration models become the next ecosystems: turning strategic initiatives into scalable products, winning enterprise customers through bespoke technical solutions, enabling large cohorts to adopt through integrator platforms and API infrastructure.
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Knowledge of general AI tools
- Experience designing, implementing, and scaling upskilling, apprenticeship, or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions
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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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