Export Control Requirement
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
* Be proactive in removing roadblocks, fostering innovation, and managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, driving continuous improvement and efficiency.
* Create, optimize, and support cross-functional working groups and projects, fostering collaboration and synergy across departments to enhance security capabilities.
* Manage tight deadlines with precision and drive results, exhibiting exceptional attention to detail and ensuring the successful completion of projects and initiatives.
* Own the program lifecycle for large, complex security initiatives spanning multiple teams and VP organizations, including mission, vision, tenets, and roadmap contributions.
* Partner with security engineers and senior technical leaders to perform program-level design reviews and risk assessments and ensure architectural choices appropriately balance short-term needs with long-term security posture.
* Develop and maintain program mechanisms - including risk registers, review processes, and reporting structures - to ensure security risks are tracked, escalated, and remediated in partnership with risk owners.
Simplify and streamline cross-functional processes to increase selections velocity and reduce friction for solution teams.
* Collect, analyze, and synthesize data from a variety of sources to create compelling written and verbal communications for Director and VP-level audiences, including Amazon 6-pagers and Monthly Program Reviews.
* Build consensus among discordant views, escalate effectively, and ensure business and technical stakeholder needs are aligned across the program.
A day in the life
In this role you'll work with a team of engineers, managers, and TPMs. You'll help identify business security priorities, mechanisms to address the security of Leo's enterprise, lab, manufacturing, and launch operations security and will work with partners and builder teams to simplify risk mitigation. You will influence the security strategy of partner teams to optimize security outcomes for our customers. You'll participate in hiring, development, training of team members. You'll own a part of the team outcome and will be encouraged to grow your ownership and role.
About the team
A day in the life
In this role you'll work with a team of engineers, managers, and TPMs. You'll help identify business security priorities, mechanisms to address the priorities, trends in the findings your team generates or processes and will work with partners to remove these risks at the source. You influence the security strategy of partner teams to optimize security outcomes for our customers. You'll participate in hiring, development, training of team members. You'll own a part of the team outcome and will be encouraged to grow your ownership and role.
About the team
Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
What We're Looking For
You thrive in ambiguity and create clarity for others. You have experience managing programs spanning distributed systems, security infrastructure, or compliance-driven initiatives. You understand security controls, vulnerability management, SAST and DAST scanning systems well enough to have informed technical conversations and spot opportunities early. You manage through influence, not authority. You work across organizations with different priorities and build alignment. You communicate crisply to senior leadership, distinguishing signal from noise. You build mechanisms that scale: dashboards, status cadences, escalation paths, and dependency trackers that outlast any individual program review.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience triaging security risks or vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed or mitigated
- Knowledge of cloud services such as AWS or equivalent
- Knowledge of one or more of the following domains: access-control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security
- Background in satellite operations, aerospace, or highly regulated environments (ITAR/EAR)
- Experience building proof-of-concept services to validate requirements
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, WA, Redmond - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
