Technical Infrastructure Program Manager II, New Region Enablement

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

AIS Supply Chain’s Manufacturing, Transportation, and Reverse Operations team is seeking a Technical Infrastructure Program Manager (TIPM) to help enable AWS’ new availability and local zones. This role offers opportunity to work on cutting-edge new site launches and opportunity to solve/manage complex challenges tied to Global Cloud Computing.

As a TIPM, you will lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects with the opportunity to shape, define & deliver successful site launches from a supply chain perspective. You will be responsible for the end to end supply chain enablement and overall project management for launching new availability and local zone sites. These sites will be of various build types and will be launching around the world. You will work cross-functionally with various organizational levels and groups to enable these new sites. Some of your key stakeholders will be manufacturing, logistics, trade and compliance, procurement, region services, and engineering teams.

You must have excellent program management and critical thinking skills that enable you to “look around corners” and mitigate potential risk. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are also essential as you will be responsible for communicating with and to a broad group of stakeholders the supply chain launch status of an site. You must have a proven track record of successful project management & show the ability to deliver effectively in ambiguous situations with compressed timelines. You also must possess a working knowledge of data center technologies and supply chain management practices/processes.

Key job responsibilities
* Manage launch of multiple availability and local zones simultaneously by executing needed actions with cross functional stakeholders.
* Communicate project status updates to various project stakeholders, including team members and leadership which will include synthesizing a multitude of issues and actions into a clear, concise and focused message.
* Collaborate and engage team members from across all functions to enable new sites. Typical functions include Planning, Supply Chain, Logistics, Regional DC Teams, Finance, Trade, etc.
* Understand and proactively flag risk for upcoming new availability and local zone launches to various internal stakeholders and leadership (ex. supply issues, tight manufacturing capacity, etc.)
* Manage dependencies and the interfaces between launches and negotiate the trade-offs as needed with business stakeholders

About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.