Sr. Technical Program Manager, AWS Product Compliance Engineering

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager who will be responsible for providing global product compliance technical program management and leadership to ensure that all electrical, mechanical, material, and other regulated performance specifications are satisfied in all countries where AWS business exists or will expand.

AWS is at the forefront of providing a broad set of global cloud-based services including compute, storage, databases, networking, and enterprise applications, to help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale. You will be a part of a dynamic business within Amazon.com, and one of the world’s fastest growing and evolving companies, with a team of exceptionally talented, bright and innovative people. GTPC is responsible for ensuring that the infrastructure equipment necessary to support the AWS services are developed, imported, exported, and operated in a compliant manner across the global countries where AWS operates and will expand, including all product certification/safety regulations.

Key job responsibilities
You will be part of the AWS Product Compliance Engineering team within AWS Global Trade and Regulatory Compliance team (GTPC) that collaborates with Datacenter Engineering, Product Engineering, Compliance Engineers, Regulatory Analyst, legal, trade strategy, and supply chain to implement compliance specifications and policies, provide product compliance support during product development, builds compliance programs to support AWS Datacenter Engineering, Design Engineering, Power Generations, Advanced Robotics, Region Service Business, and Health & Safety businesses including Datacenter Basis of Design (BOD) lifecycle management, hardware technology development and deployment, new region planning and launches. You will develop compliance specification and plan, troubleshoot and resolve compliance issues that arise in the course of AWS’s NPI and other business processes.

Key job responsibilities

• End-to-end compliance program ownership for AWS datacenter infrastructure equipment — including compute, storage, networking, security hardware, power and cooling infrastructure, and advanced robotics — ensuring all products meet applicable safety, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), security, energy efficiency, and material compliance requirements and approvals across global jurisdictions.
• Drive compliance specification development and execution for new and existing infrastructure products, defining compliance requirements, test plans, certification timelines, and acceptance criteria.
• Own the compliance critical path and overall strategy for AWS hardware deployments, proactively identifying risks, resolving blockers, and ensuring compliance milestones are met to support on-time regional launches.
• Provide compliance engineering support during New Product Introduction (NPI), partnering with hardware engineering teams to embed compliance-by-design principles early in the product development lifecycle.
• Collaborate across multiple stakeholder organizations including Datacenter Engineering (DCE), Annapurna, Hardware Engineering, AWS Infra Service Supply Chain, Compliance Engineers, Regulatory Analysts, Legal, Trade Strategy, and Health & Safety (H&S) to implement compliance specifications and policies.
• Build and manage integrated compliance program plans that align engineering development milestones with certification timelines, supply chain readiness, and regional launch schedules.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and escalation management across VP-level leadership, ensuring compliance risks and tradeoffs are communicated clearly and resolved decisively.
• Build scalable, sustainable compliance processes that improve operational efficiency, reduce cycle time for certifications, and enhance compliance coverage across the growing AWS infrastructure portfolio.
• Drive continuous improvement in compliance program execution through mechanisms, automation, and tooling enhancements.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic qualifications

- 6+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.

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