Program Manager I, ShipTech

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ShipTech is the connective tissue, which connects Transportation Service Providers, First Mile, Middle Mile, and Last Mile to facilitate the shipping of billions of packages each year. Due to criticality of the ShipTech systems, world-wide (WW) Amazon business organizations work with STS every year to deliver their programs for network expansion, operational efficiency improvement, new feature delivery to enhance customer/operator experience, compliance asks, etc. WW requestors submit intakes to deliver: (1) on-boarding new shippers, carriers, and services to the shipping network, (2) facilitating package movement and tracking in Amazon and third-party (3P) network, (3) changes in carrier artifacts like a label and manifest, (4) carrier configurations like routing codes, account ids, and (5) custom tech-builds for meeting business specific asks delivered by STS every year.

We are looking for a Program Manager to be a part of our multi-year effort to support the operational execution for the Global Program team. Our mission is to be a partner and enabler to Amazon Customer Fulfillment, Transportation & Logistics, and Operational Finance, within WW Operations. This role gives an opportunity to work closely with Business, Operations, Tech, and Senior Leaders to manage and deliver for Amazon businesses.

The ideal candidate will have successfully led programs in Operational excellence, technology transformations, etc. They will be passionate about their work, detail-oriented, and have excellent problem-solving abilities. They will have superb communication and customer-relationship skills. They will drive towards simple, scalable solutions to difficult problems, have excellent project-management skills, and be able to communicate, analytical results, both written and verbally, in a clear and easy-to-understand way.

Key job responsibilities
As a Program Manager you will be responsible for driving cross-functional product design platform capabilities alignment among stakeholders. You will work closely with Product Management and Technology teams as well as various Business Operations and Carrier launch teams to intake new use cases by collecting requirements, scoping, prioritizing and than working with development teams to implement and deploy tech changes. Your role is critical in executing our program and project initiatives (mainly standard initiatives), while providing great internal customer support and driving consistency, help us continue to support our initiatives, and identify process improvement opportunities.

Successful candidates will have experience with Program Management in a broad, global organization, have experience working with a variety of cross-organizational stakeholders, and be able to juggle competing priorities. This candidate must have crisp communication skills, and have experience communicating project status and updates across a global audience. We are looking for someone who is detail-driven, and has excellent problem solving and communication abilities. Ability to navigate ambiguous programs and a high bias for action are important for this role.

A day in the life
The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills. She/he will be passionate about their work, detail-oriented, and have excellent problem-solving abilities. She/he will be experienced at working with large data sets and managing multiple competing priorities. She/he will have superb communication and customer-relationship skills, and be a passionate advocate of the team and processes to stakeholders. She/he will drive towards simple, scalable solutions to difficult problems, have excellent project-management skills, and be able to communicate complex analytical results, both written and verbally, in a clear and easy-to-understand way.

About the team
We are a team of program managers who work across 20+ platform tech teams. Our stakeholders are transportation teams across regions. We contribute to several large-scale high-visibility programs each year such as network expansion projects like market place launches and carrier launches, and new feature build outs to provide enhanced customer experience or better operational efficiencies. We also support several compliance programs across our worldwide stakeholders. We are looking for a Program Manager to work with with global business customers and our engineering teams to support intake requests related to new carrier on-boarding and ship method integrations.

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience in program or project management
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in MS Access and SQL
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document

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