What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Program Manager, Academic Hiring position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Global Specialty Recruiting (GSR) is seeking a Senior Program Manager (Sr. PM) to support Amazon Academics. Amazon Academics are luminaries that work on Amazon’s most significant and complex scientific and technical challenges. The Academic Programs team focuses efforts in three categories: (1) Creating simple pathways to improve Amazon’s ability to hire, develop, and retain world-class academic talent. (2) Developing internal and academic partnerships globally in order to meet customer problems and demands. (3) Driving non-conventional programs which facilitate long-term science talent acquisition and retention in specialized domains (e.g. Applied Science, Research Science, and Economics).
The Sr. PM is responsible for facilitating key milestones in the Academic employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding, to compensation and performance management, to offboarding. They will define and deliver scalable, programmatic solutions with broad cross-organizational and/or cross-regional business impact that resolve complex problems and provide a long-term beneficial impact. The Sr. PM will support multiple global programs end-to-end (e.g. Amazon Scholars and Academics Visiting Amazon). They will define and execute program development goals and consult with cross-functional stakeholders that include the Science Leadership Team (SLT), HRBPs, Legal, Compensation, and Recruiting. They will develop and execute strategic communications, building internal mechanisms that automate and scale global workflows in order to develop sustainable, long-term strategies for Academic talent engagement.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
• The Sr. PM identifies gaps/opportunities in or between regions, processes, and organizations (e.g., workflows, tooling, operating procedures, etc.). This Sr. PM role supports a specialty employee population with non-standard lifecycle policies, mechanisms, and compensation models, often outside of standard HR tools. The role supports a portfolio of critical workstreams to re-engineer processes and re-define ownership to close gaps and drive efficiency vs the status quo. Key focus areas include compensation and lifecycle events like transfers, talent management, and impact assessment, which require influencing without authority across central People eXperience and Technology (PXT) teams to achieve outcomes.
• The Sr. PM creates, optimizes, and drives adoption of the critical mechanisms that ensure programs will be successful in the long-term. This role defines and builds novel mechanisms and artifacts to sustain the specialty population, with the objective of force multiplying via stakeholders and partners on execution while addressing the requirements of unique use cases (e.g. developing assessment mechanisms, ensuring effective international localization, or building role guidelines).
• The Sr. PM is trusted to operate with autonomy and often encounters nascent areas where the strategy has not yet been defined. This role is complex and ambiguous engaging with customers and stakeholders that often include Amazon’s most senior leadership.
• Given the breadth of scope and stakeholders to engage, the continual novel use cases and bandwidth limitations, the Sr. PM role must be right a lot and exhibit backbone and judgement on resource investment and roadmaps to navigate complexity and deliver results.
• The Sr. PM consistently brings strong, data-driven business and strategic judgment. The Sr. PM’s role drives rhythm-of-the-business/Biz Ops for Academic Programs. They design reporting to inspect key org goals and KPIs through MBRs and QBRs, and also define product requirements for dashboards. The role looks to derive insights from data and make recommendations that drive positive change. For example, by influencing Finance to enable data availability and mechanisms to track and inspect spend on academics as an input to business planning and impact/ROI evaluation.
About the team
We are a team of strategic recruiters and program managers that work in support of the mission to bring the best executive level R&D talent to Amazon and elevate our reputation in the academic science community as an employer of choice. The Academic Hiring Programs team focuses efforts in three categories: (1) Creating simple pathways to improve Amazon’s ability to hire, develop, and retain world-class academic talent. (2) Developing internal and academic partnerships globally in order to meet customer problems and demands. (3) Driving non-conventional programs which facilitate long-term science talent acquisition and retention in specialized domains.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.
Salary : $104,100 - $185,000
