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Program Manager, Selling Partner Experience Core Services

Amazon.com Inc

  • Tempe, AZ
  • 4 days ago

    Highlights

    Your mornings often start by reviewing action items from recent Weekly or Monthly Business Reviews, following up with engineering leads, product managers, and operations partners across the SPECS organization to keep commitments on track. Selling Partner Experience Core Services (SPECS) is part of the Customer Selling Partner Experience (CSPE) organization, responsible for the core systems and capabilities that enable millions of sellers to list and manage their products on Amazon.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationTempe, AZ
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    We are looking for an exceptionally organized, self-motivated Program Manager to serve as a force multiplier for the Selling Partner Experience Core Services (SPECS) organization, part of Customer Selling Partner Experience (CSPE). This role blends strategic program management with site operations leadership and community engagement, offering significant ownership, autonomy, and organizational impact.

    You will run cross-functional initiatives, turn strategic direction into executable plans, and drive the operational rhythms that keep our organization aligned, moving fast, and having fun. As the primary point of contact for Phoenix site activities across the VP-level CSPE organization, you will also lead community engagement efforts including volunteer programs and local partnerships.

    Day to day, you will apply project management best practices to make your team and process area more efficient. This means defining clear milestones and launch schedules, assigning individual responsibilities, resolving blockers, and facilitating delivery. You will transform raw ideas into clear documentation and requirements, and ensure every project has well-defined measures of success.

    A key focus of this role is keeping leadership and the broader team organized, informed, and on task. Calendar management and scheduling at a high level will require extremely high standards, attention to detail, and superb organizational skills. You should be comfortable juggling multiple priorities, and managing last-minute escalations with grace.

    The ideal candidate is a self-starter with a positive attitude who is passionate about employee experience, community involvement, and making the people around them more effective. Clear, concise communication, both written and verbal, is essential.

    Key job responsibilities

    Organizational Effectiveness & Business Operations

    • Own and drive critical business review cadences including Weekly Business Reviews (WBRs) and Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs): agenda creation, pre-reads, action item tracking, and follow-through.
    • Own the SPECS tech roadmap planning cycles: quarterly planning, OP1/OP2, and PI Planning
    • Track organizational commitments, surface risks early, and ensure delivery against roadmap milestones
    • Prepare leadership communications including monthly flash updates, org-wide announcements, and information radiators
    • Coordinate leadership off-sites, all-hands meetings, and strategic planning sessions

    Site Operations & Leadership Support

    • Serve as the primary point of contact for all PHX site-related activities for the SPECS organization and the VP-level CSPE organization based in Phoenix
    • Oversee site support functions and establish infrastructure for continued site growth
    • Coordinate with facilities, IT, and corporate functions on space planning, site logistics, and site-level communications
    • Identify site-wide learning and development opportunities; coordinate training programs and evaluate effectiveness

    Community Engagement & Employee Experience

    • Lead community engagement activities for the PHX CSPE presence
    • Identify and coordinate volunteer opportunities with local organizations and community partners
    • Build relationships with community leaders, universities (ASU, UofA), and local technology groups
    • Coordinate external events including career fairs, hackathons, networking events, and sponsorship opportunities
    • Drive initiatives that strengthen Amazon"s local reputation and support recruiting pipelines
    • Lead employee experience programs: social events, recognition programs, and culture-building activities

    A day in the life

    No two days in this role look exactly the same, but they all center on keeping people aligned, informed, and moving forward. Here is what a typical week might look like.

    Your mornings often start by reviewing action items from recent Weekly or Monthly Business Reviews, following up with engineering leads, product managers, and operations partners across the SPECS organization to keep commitments on track. You may spend part of your morning preparing a pre-read document for an upcoming leadership review or drafting a monthly flash update that distills complex program status into clear, actionable takeaways for VP-level stakeholders within CSPE.

    Midday, you might shift to site operations: connecting with facilities and IT on a space-planning request for the growing Phoenix site, coordinating logistics for an upcoming all-hands meeting, or reviewing proposals for a new training program. You are the go-to person when anyone in the PHX office needs to know who to call, what is happening on-site, or how to get something done.

    In the afternoon, you could be working with local universities like ASU or UofA to finalize details for a career fair, aligning with community partners on a volunteer event, or planning the next employee recognition activity. You balance these external-facing efforts with internal collaboration, partnering with Executive Assistants across Amazon Payments to coordinate leadership calendars and resolve scheduling conflicts.

    About the team

    Selling Partner Experience Core Services (SPECS) is part of the Customer Selling Partner Experience (CSPE) organization, responsible for the core systems and capabilities that enable millions of sellers to list and manage their products on Amazon. Our Phoenix site is a growing hub of product, engineering, and operations talent, and this role is central to ensuring we scale effectively while maintaining a strong culture and community presence.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

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