Program Manager - Integrated Scheduling & Planning

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Program Manager to join the Startup Integrated Planning team within GEMS. You will oversee contracted planners, shape workforce strategy, and drive scheduling governance for North America infrastructure projects.

The role requires up to 50% travel within the US/Canada and relocation support. You will work from a corporate office when not traveling and lead cross-functional planning efforts at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• 3+ years of integrated scheduling experience including use of MS Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent tool
• Experience applying AI tools and automation to scale program operations and drive measurable efficiency improvements.
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities

Responsibilities

• Shape and advance the workforce and vendor strategy for contracted planners, including capacity modeling, skill-mix optimization, and procurement negotiations
• Oversee contracted project planners: set expectations, provide training on planning standards, review deliverable quality, and support escalations
• Assign and rebalance planners across projects based on priority, complexity, and workload
• Track project budgets, manage invoicing, and provide funding inputs for planning resources
• Refine and enforce quality standards for integrated project schedules, ensuring all plans connect discipline timelines, dependencies, and handovers into a single source of truth
• Contribute to the planning maturity model and roadmap, setting progressive quality targets that evolve as the program scales
• Design and implement governance mechanisms that validate schedule quality at scale, removing the need for manual review
• Ensure weekly planning status reports are accurate, complete, and distributed on time to stakeholders
• Track planning health via KPI dashboards measuring schedule integrity, milestone adherence, plan variance, and delivery date accuracy
• Develop, maintain, and enforce Standard Operating Procedures for all planning activities
• Develop and improve planning tools, templates, and AI-driven automations to boost planner productivity and eliminate manual workflows
• Identify and lead initiatives that advance planning maturity, including automation, tooling, and capability building
• Capture lessons learned from completed projects and convert them into repeatable, scalable best practices
• Identify and mitigate program-level planning risks; own escalation paths and drive issues to resolution
• Ensure planners identify cross-functional dependencies and surface risks early, before they become execution problems
• Develop and refine risk and reporting frameworks that give leadership the signal needed to make portfolio-level decisions
• Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to senior leadership on portfolio-wide planning performance
• Build and maintain program-level relationships with key partner functions to drive planning adoption and standardization
• Serve as the planning liaison with partner functions, championing integrated scheduling practices
• Drive continuous improvement of integrated planning by gathering feedback from partner functions and refining workflows
• Represent the Integrated Planning program in global forums, aligning planning standards and resolving systemic gaps across disciplines

Skills

Program management

Data-driven

Cross-functional leadership

Advanced Excel

SQL

Stakeholder management

Integrated scheduling

MS Project

Primavera P6

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

SQL

AI tools

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Program Manager to join the Startup Integrated Planning team within GEMS. You will oversee contracted planners, shape workforce strategy, and drive scheduling governance for North America infrastructure projects.

The role requires up to 50% travel within the US/Canada and relocation support. You will work from a corporate office when not traveling and lead cross-functional planning efforts at scale.