Sr. Design Program Manager, JWO Launch Team

Sr. Design Program Manager, JWO Launch Team

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges.

Amazon Just Walk Out as a Service (JWOS) delivers solutions to our Retail Customers to simplify and improve the shopping experience. Our enterprise-ready autonomous retail technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go.

Are you excited about working with ground-breaking technology in Retail? Are you customer-obsessed and detail oriented? Do you enjoy working with external customers? Do you have experience working with both design and technology development teams to meet daily business requirements?

Amazon is seeking an innovative Sr. Design Program Manager responsible for the standardization, implementation, and customization of brand design standards as they translate into physical stores. This role will be responsible for gathering requirements and creating standardized construction document sets for customers to bid and construct from.

Key responsibilities include:

• Translating design standards to support the tech functionality and brand of our Third-Party partners in an innovative yet fiscally responsible way.
• Managing projects with high levels of complexity and ambiguity.
• Writing program documents that drive new innovations, outline testing/analysis to inform design decisions, or define standards and processes.
• Working with key internal and external stakeholders in the production of comprehensive design JWO enabled stores.
• Consulting with external customers during the Design Development and Construction Document phase for both new construction and renovation projects.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in architecture
• 10+ years of experience in Architecture or Retail Design
• Experience in: Architecture / Retail Design; Design Development, Construction / Permit Documentation
• Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Revit skills required.
• Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Smartsheet Skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working and contributing to project playbooks, building schedules, managing issues/risks, establishing communication plans and stakeholder management
• Knowledge of current AEC trends and practices preferred
• Retail design strongly preferred

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.