Sustainability Science & Partnerships Program Lead

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) team leads the company’s sustainability initiatives through applied science, data analytics, and strategic research to support Amazon’s long-term global sustainability strategy.

You will coordinate multi-stakeholder programs, manage internal alignment, drive external partnerships with research institutions and industry bodies, and own the program roadmap from planning to executive reporting, bridging science, product, and business strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.

Responsibilities

• Own stakeholder engagement across teams within WWS and SSI - securing data and resource commitments, aligning on shared deliverables, and maintaining consistent messaging across all stakeholder touchpoints
• Drive data and information-sharing agreements across teams, including access governance; facilitate joint planning sessions and translate program outputs into team-level action plans
• Manage the operational cadence of Amazon's external research partnerships - including academic institutions, national laboratories, and government-funded research programs - tracking deliverables and milestones
• Own the program roadmap - translating science and engineering priorities into a sequenced set of data products and decision-support tools; drive the program's weekly and quarterly update cadence to Director-level stakeholders; negotiate resources and priorities across contributing teams and unblock work before it stalls
• Build and maintain governance structures for program operations, including data access policies, budget tracking, and decision logs; identify and proactively resolve operational bottlenecks before they impact program timelines

Skills

Technical PM

Roadmap strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Amazon's Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) team leads the company’s sustainability initiatives through applied science, data analytics, and strategic research to support Amazon’s long-term global sustainability strategy.

You will coordinate multi-stakeholder programs, manage internal alignment, drive external partnerships with research institutions and industry bodies, and own the program roadmap from planning to executive reporting, bridging science, product, and business strategy.