This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest-growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Programs Strategy and Change Management Lead to own the vision, design, and worldwide execution of our flagship Sell Programs portfolio including MAP (Migration Acceleration Program) and POC (Proof of Concept). This is a high-visibility, high-impact role within the AWS Specialist & Partner Organization.

You will own the strategy and operational excellence of the programs and underlying primitives — standardized funding mechanisms with defined economics (rates, caps, payment triggers) — that power customer transformations and partner engagements at scale.

If you're energized by taking complexity and turning it into elegant, scalable mechanisms that work for customers, partners, and field teams alike — this is your role.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the Sell Programs strategy: Define and evolve the worldwide portfolio of Sell Programs and their underlying primitives — standardized funding mechanisms that apply uniformly across workload types. Determine how programs compose, how tiered structures unlock funding levels, and where to invest for growth.
• Drive program consolidation and simplification: Lead the strategic evolution from fragmented, program-specific rules into a streamlined architecture. Build the business cases, define transition roadmaps, and manage the organizational change required to retire legacy constructs and land new ones.
• Design and launch new programs: Conceptualize, validate, and bring to market new programs and mechanisms — from insight through pilot to worldwide scale. Determine when to build net-new vs. evolve existing programs across both customer and partner motions.
• Lead change management at scale: Architect and execute cross-organizational change management for program launches, evolutions, and retirements. Develop enablement frameworks, communication strategies, and adoption motions that land across field sales, partners, and internal stakeholders globally.
• Build operating models: Define the governance, WBRs, escalation paths, and compliance frameworks that ensure programs operate with rigor post-launch. Establish success metrics and hold programs accountable to them.
• Influence across the organization: Align senior leadership across AWS Sales, Partner Sales, Business Development, Partner Management, and external SI/Consulting partners. Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities in a matrixed environment to drive decisions and commitment.
• Deliver through data: Build reporting frameworks that give leadership clear line-of-sight into program health, funding utilization, ROI, and customer/partner impact. Use data to continuously refine strategy and investment allocation.

A day in the life

About the team
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Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
• 5+ years of complex cross-functional change management experience
• Experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to support business decisions, or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• Experience working with, presenting to and influencing senior executives up to VP level
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
• 8+ years of experience in program strategy, GTM operations, management consulting, or business development, with at least 3 years leading cross-functional programs at a global scale.
• Experience working across customer-facing and partner-facing program models — you understand how sell motions differ and where they converge.

Preferred qualifications

• MBA
• Master's degree or above in engineering, management, or technology, or Master's degree or above in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, data science, engineering, or other related field
• 3+ years of IT and/or Management Consulting Services, or 3+ years of technology sales experience

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 176,100.00 - 238,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 176,100.00 - 238,200.00 USD annually