Sr. Program Manager, Data Center Planning

Global Infrastructure Strategy Leader

The AWS Data Center Planning team is searching for a passionate and talented leader to drive our Global Build and Capex Operational Planning cycles. AWS is at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry, facing new and complex challenges that have never been tackled before. This role will lead organization wide programs to support critical operational planning cycles, creating timelines, leading tiger teams, and owning executive communications. This role will also bridge multiple business teams and finance functions by leading 3-year planning for asset categories that are critical to unblocking AWS' expansion plans, including Data Center build, long lead equipment, site and shell. This is a high impact role offering an opportunity to drive and influence business-critical decisions impacting the long-term future of AWS. The ideal candidate for this role is a leader with strong business judgment, a passion for making lasting program improvements, an ability to define strategy and vision, and an ability to align cross-functional organizations and teams around their vision.

Key job responsibilities include developing strategy and roadmaps to improve Operational Planning processes, creating and scaling mechanisms to review strategic investment opportunities and assess execution risks, overseeing the execution of operational planning processes, developing metrics, reviewing performance against previous plans, and identifying improvements to close gaps. The role also involves identifying opportunities to simplify processes, mitigate business risks, and implement scalable solutions. Communication skills are essential to facilitate understanding and buy-in from a range of stakeholders and executives.

A day in the life involves interacting with different teams responsible for all aspects of the data centers, prioritizing activities to support data center capacity availability and safety, collaborating with global teams across time zones, leading dynamic tiger team sessions to solve complex infrastructure challenges, developing and presenting strategic recommendations to executive leadership, partnering with finance teams to optimize multi-billion dollar investment decisions, driving innovation in data center planning and execution, mentoring team members, and fostering cross-functional relationships.

The impact you'll make includes driving critical operational planning cycles that shape AWS's global presence, leading 3-year strategic planning for essential infrastructure components, influencing billion-dollar decisions that define AWS's future, and creating lasting improvements in how we plan and execute massive-scale projects.

About the team: Join the AWS Data Centre Planning team, where we're not just building data centers we're architecting the future of cloud computing. Our team of visionaries and innovators tackles unprecedented challenges in cloud infrastructure, making history every day while having fun along the way. As our Global Infrastructure Strategy Leader, you'll orchestrate AWS's worldwide expansion through strategic planning and execution. You'll be at the helm of transformative initiatives that directly impact how millions of customers experience cloud computing.

Basic qualifications include experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership, 3+ years of program or project management experience, and experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.

Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field, and 2+ years of driving process improvements experience.