Senior Program Manager, Emerging Shipping Initiatives

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Amazon Shipping is building Amazon's next $100B business. Emerging Programs owns the programs that turn ideas into reality, coordinating across Operations, Technology, Commercial, and Product teams to incubate and deliver new capabilities with carrier partners.

The role requires comfort with ambiguity, bias for action, and the ability to build governance and execution frameworks for fast-moving, early-stage bets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive emerging programs from incubation through delivery, coordinating cross-functional execution across Operations, Technology, Commercial, and Product teams.
• Build execution frameworks tailored to early-stage programs where milestones shift, scope evolves, and success criteria may be redefined.
• Provide leadership with clear, honest visibility into program health to enable timely go/no-go funding decisions.
• Establish governance mechanisms that maintain accountability without slowing experimentation.
• Coordinate operational readiness for new capabilities, working with carrier partners, compliance teams, and field operations.
• Surface learnings early and systematically so programs can be scaled, pivoted, or wound down based on evidence.
• Build and maintain cross-organizational partnerships that enable rapid iteration despite competing priorities.
• Support quarterly planning with senior stakeholders, aligning investments across the emerging programs portfolio.

Skills

Program management

Data-driven decisions

End-to-end delivery

Leadership & reporting

Education

Master's degree or MBA

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Amazon Shipping is building Amazon's next $100B business. Emerging Programs owns the programs that turn ideas into reality, coordinating across Operations, Technology, Commercial, and Product teams to incubate and deliver new capabilities with carrier partners.

The role requires comfort with ambiguity, bias for action, and the ability to build governance and execution frameworks for fast-moving, early-stage bets.