Description
Join us at the cutting edge of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.
The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon's scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable.
Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a multi-disciplinary team within WW Sustainability combining science, analytics, economics, statistics, machine learning, product development, and engineering expertise. We use data across the sustainability imperatives (carbon, water, waste, biodiversity, environmental risk and more) and these skills and capabilities to identify, develop, experiment, and scale the scientific solutions and innovations necessary for Amazon, customers and partners to help them solve their hardest unmet and evolving sustainability needs and goals.
We're looking for an outstanding Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) who will develop and execute a unified roadmap for the development of our long-term company-wide sustainability trajectory and prediction modeling for Amazon.
This person will manage multiple ambiguous initiatives (with outcomes that are not guaranteed but impactful when executed effectively) as a program for one or multiple of sustainability trajectory and prediction models (Climate; Economy; Industry).
This person will work with WWS partner teams (WW Sustainability Tech, WW Environment, ESG, The Climate Pledge, etc.) and with other relevant Amazon business units, and external stakeholders (e.g. suppliers, startups)
You're expected to drive these initiatives in order to exceed the high bar of our customer's requirements, achieving our long-term sustainability goals and commitments through science and innovation. This will require close collaboration with customers and stakeholders to delivery and demonstrate global-scale innovative modeling technologies and solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable and resilient.
A successful candidate has previous exposure to sustainability (broadly defined) and climate tech (broadly defined), multidisciplinary scientist and practitioners (across processes, materials, and methods), and has knowledge about sustainability needs of our customers.
You will be able to translate scientific concepts into technical design and implementation roadmaps while driving multiple initiatives simultaneously. They effectively leverage support from teams within their own organization and other teams and peers within WWS. Effective verbal and written communication is a key skill to generate alignment between SSI, WWS and other functions.
You will work successfully across multidisciplinary teams and drive a continuous delivery culture to embed informed, science-based decision-making into existing mechanisms, such as decarbonization strategies, ESG compliance, and risk management. You are required strong attention to detail, technical penetration, excellent communication skills, collaboration, analytical and abstract thinking, time management and organizational skills.
If you see yourself innovating at the intersection of climate science and tech, we'd like to meet you.
Key job responsibilities
-Discover true requirements, recommend alternative approaches (technical/business), lead science/engineering efforts for complex sustainability problems with aggressive timelines.
-Influence technical product architecture/design decisions, advocate for science quality bar, implement useful mechanisms, remove useless processes.
-Communicate clearly with senior leadership on strategy, status, risks, mitigations, plans. Support critical trade-off decisions, optimizing time-to-impact. Engage cross-functional teams and external partners.
-Identify and articulate long-term environmental metrics, working with multidisciplinary teams (engineers, SMEs, scientists).
-Excel in operating at a strategic level while providing deep technical guidance to keep projects on track.
-Entrepreneurial, right-a-lot, data/metric-driven role requiring creativity, long-term customer focus, science-led product sense, with proven experience in complex data, ML, AI, science models, productization.
-When necessary get hands-on with code and models, continuously innovating better approaches.
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of technical product or program management experience
10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
Strong background in one or more of environmental sciences / computational sustainability / climate change initiatives
Solid working knowledge on emergent ML and sustainability science trends
Experience collaborating and/or managing programs across cross functional teams, building long-term roadmaps and coordinating release schedules
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
4+ years of work experience in one or more of the following areas: environmental sciences / computational sustainability / climate change initiatives, including decarbonization initiatives, such as alternative fuels (e.g., hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable natural gas), batteries, building materials (e.g., concrete and steel) and methodologies / tools for target settings, and key environmental intelligence initiatives, such as climate risk analytics.
Experience collaborating and managing initiatives and projects across cross functional teams, thinks strategically for long-term success, but stays on top of tactical execution to ensure intermediate wins pointing us to the right direction. Exhibits excellent business judgment; balances feasibility and impact.
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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/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.
