Early Career Experience Program Manager, Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA), Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA)

Within Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA), the Experience (AUTA-X) team provides a best-in-class internship experience (onboarding, early career development, and offboarding) to engage and retain top diverse early career talent. AUTA-X is seeking a Program Manager to support the day-to-day operations across the internship lifecycle globally. This role will be instrumental in shaping the future of our high touch programming agenda, driving operational excellence, and ensuring the success of our early talent initiatives.

This opportunity calls for a candidate willing to work effectively at scale, thrive in ambiguous situations, and deliver multiple projects while contributing to a collaborative team environment. They possess strong communication skills and ability to manage team priorities against tight timelines. A proven track record of effective prioritization and taking initiative is important. Candidates should be comfortable with ambiguity and possess strong customer obsession. The position will leverage tools, analytics, and communications to improve the education, engagement, and experience of field and corporate interns.

Key job responsibilities
• Single threaded intern experience oversight for one or more global specialized programming, aligned to AUTA priorities.
• Design and scale tailored programming, events and operational excellence mechanisms to enable intern experience, manager experience and conversion goals.
• Partnership with other Program Managers to force multiply specialized programming innovations.
• Monitor performance metrics and survey responses, report on the status of key objectives that affect deliverables and own path to green resolution.
• Propose and implement innovative solutions to enhance experience and program outcomes.
• Gain operational efficiencies through AI-powered chatbots, ML, and AI-assisted content generation, while maintaining program quality.
• Provide customer and programming insights for regular rhythm of business mechanisms including but not limited to 2x2’s, QBRs and lesson learn documents.

A day in the life
This role requires ability to work across multiple time zones, including AMER, EMEA, APJC, and LATAM which may result in starting your day earlier or ending your working day later on a regular occurrence to support the global team.

About the team
At Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA), we're revolutionizing how the world's most innovative company attracts and develops its next generation of leaders. As Amazon's early career pipeline, we manage global university recruiting across internships, full-time roles, and apprenticeships through cutting-edge AI technology and strategic partnerships with top universities worldwide. Our team operates at massive scale while maintaining an unwavering focus on finding the best talent, driving innovation in candidate experience through personalized journeys, and identifying emerging talent in fields like Generative AI and Robotics that will shape the world's future.

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience working in an analytical environment with cross-functional teams
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of Lean principles and DMAIC methodology
- Experience with Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques

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.

USA, VA, Arlington - 55,600.00 - 97,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 80,200.00 - 97,400.00 USD annually