Senior Sustainability Specialist, AWS Global Sustainability

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Sustainability Specialist within AWS Global Sustainability to embed decarbonization into core business strategy.

You will apply deep expertise in GHG data management and carbon accounting to shape the company’s climate programs. You will partner with infrastructure planning, real estate, energy, and design teams to advance siting and construction decisions, while strengthening the integrity and auditability of AWS's GHG inventory.

Qualifications

• Experience in GHG data management and reporting.
• Ability to embed carbon accounting into business strategy.
• Experience with Scope 1-3 accounting and inventory methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with infrastructure planning, real estate, energy, and data center design/engineering teams to integrate carbon considerations into siting, design, and development decisions.
• Develop, document, and operationalize new and improved carbon accounting methodologies for operational and embodied emissions across the AWS infrastructure lifecycle.
• Own and mature the AWS GHG inventory — improving data quality, calculation methods, emission factors, and boundary definitions — and ensure alignment with evolving reporting standards.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on carbon accounting and GHG inventory methodology within the group and across partner teams.
• Measure the carbon impact of current and future infrastructure and sustainability programs, and communicate results to leadership.
• Responsible for program delivery, developing metrics, internal and audit-ready reporting, and managing data inputs from multiple teams.
• Bring a solutions-oriented mindset, offering creative, rigorous, and defensible approaches to measurement challenges.

Skills

GHG data management

Carbon accounting

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Documentation

Job description

Join us at the forefront of AWS's sustainability initiatives to work on the advancements that will deliver Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

AWS Global Sustainability (AWSGS) is a team of sustainability experts, scientists, engineers, program strategists, and product managers that deliver on our ambition to reach net-zero carbon by 2040 as part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge, as well as manage and report on our sustainability progress more broadly.

We are looking for a results-oriented Sr. Sustainability Specialist who’s passionate about building decarbonization into core business strategy. You bring deep subject matter expertise in GHG data management and accounting, and a clear point of view on the technologies and innovations needed to scale carbon-free power generation and transition to a net-zero electric grid. You have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, technical, and methodological challenges, with the skill set to drive tactical execution across multiple workstreams. You thrive in ambiguity – structuring problems, reaching defensible conclusions, and documenting clearly.

In this role you will engage partner teams across AWS infrastructure teams (energy, real estate, capacity delivery, environmental), to embed carbon-aware decision-making into how current and future AWS data centers are planned, sited, and built. You will work across science, engineering, and reporting teams to strengthen the integrity, granularity, and auditability of AWS's GHG inventory, and will drive the development/adoption of new and improved carbon accounting methods as data and standards continue to mature.

Key job responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Partner with infrastructure planning, real estate, energy, and data center design/engineering teams to integrate carbon considerations into siting, design, and development decisions.
• Develop, document, and operationalize new and improved carbon accounting methodologies for both operational and embodied emissions across the AWS infrastructure lifecycle.
• Own and mature the AWS GHG inventory — improving data quality, calculation methods, emission factors, and Scope 1, 2, and 3 boundary definitions — and ensure alignment with evolving reporting standards.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on carbon accounting and GHG inventory methodology within the group and across partner teams.
• Measure the carbon impact of current and future infrastructure and sustainability programs, and effectively communicate results to key decision-makers and leaders.
• Responsible for program delivery, developing metrics, internal and audit-ready reporting, and managing data inputs from multiple teams.
• Bring a solutions-oriented mindset, offering creative, rigorous, and defensible approaches to measurement challenges.