Benchmarking Program Manager, Cloud Economics Scale (AWS)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The AWS Cloud Economics Scale team seeks a Benchmarking Program Manager to create and evangelize benchmarking studies that prove KPI-related cloud benefits for customers. You will build processes, content, and messaging for internal and external audiences, and work cross-functionally to scale study impact and apply insights to value-based cloud adoption cases.

Responsibilities include designing studies, managing vendors, developing scaling mechanisms, and tracking impact metrics for leadership

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience.
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups) at an advanced level.

Responsibilities

• Design studies and communicate market realities regarding the economics of running IT apps and infrastructures in the cloud vs. data centers.
• Develop and conduct new benchmarking studies to help customers understand cloud financial and operational benefits.
• Own the benchmarking study process and manage external vendors, including RFPs and vendor selection.
• Develop and execute go-to-market and scaling mechanisms for new studies.
• Design and manage program impact tracking metrics for leadership reporting.

Skills

Program management

Project management

Data-driven improvements

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel advanced

Tools

Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups)

Job description

Benchmarking Program Manager, Cloud Economics Scale

Job ID: 10486409 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

As a Benchmarking Program Manager, you will have the exciting opportunity to create and evangelize new benchmarking studies, which help customers understand KPI-related benefits they can achieve on AWS. This requires building processes, content, and messaging for internal customer-facing teams and external audiences. You will work cross-functionally to understand requirements, and approaches of a diverse group of internal and external users. This will include developing plans to scale the impact of benchmark studies and assessing innovative ways to apply benchmark insights to help customers with value-based business cases for cloud adoption.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional internal stakeholders to design studies and communicate market realities regarding the economics of running IT applications and infrastructures in the cloud when compared to a traditional data center environment.


• Develop and conduct new benchmarking studies to help customers understand the financial and operational benefits of the cloud.


• Own the entire benchmarking study process and relationship with external vendors. Including creating RFPs, and evaluating, selecting and managing vendors.


• Develop and execute go to market and scaling mechanisms for new studies


• Design and manage program impact tracking metrics for management reporting.

About the team

The AWS Cloud Economics Scale team builds tools, IP, and methodology to help customers identify and quantify value creation opportunities at each stage of their journey to the cloud. We engage directly and collaboratively with customers and internal AWS teams to deliver cloud value expertise. The Cloud Economics Scale team helps answer the question: \"What value can I expect to achieve by using AWS?\"

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience


• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience


• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams


• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements


• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups) at an advanced level

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience


• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience


• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization


• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

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USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 129,800.00 USD annually

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