Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Design Excellence (ADX), an internal team aiming to elevate the impact of design at Amazon and our reputation as a top destination for design talent, is seeking a talented, creative, and experienced Principal Program Manager to join our exciting team working to help create thriving conditions for design and creative excellence at Amazon. We are an innovative, cross-organization, customer-obsessed team, empowering groups and individuals across Amazon to strengthen, connect, and evolve Amazon to be the best home for design and creative professionals on the planet.
We are seeking a creative, strategic, and self-directed Principal Program Manager to help define, create, and launch a framework for large events and activities to enhance and extend our flagship annual design conference, Conflux, and drive a rhythm of activity throughout the year. Your passion for design and ability to craft memorable moments will connect, inspire, and empower our creative community around the globe. You will work across Amazon and the industry to identify inspirational speakers, develop educational workshops and curate engaging events to foster a healthy design community. If energizing and connecting a vast array of creatives striving to change the world through creative problem solving and customer obsession sounds like a fun challenge, please apply!
Key job responsibilities
- Drive vision, roadmap and delivery of creative events: internal conferences, summits, speaker events, workshops, and programs
- Oversee the end-to-end planning, coordination, and execution of creative events – summits, speaker events, workshops, and programs
- Manage logistics, scheduling, vendor relationships, and seamless delivery
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify team needs, interests, and opportunities, developing programs that support skill development, creativity, and innovation
- Recruit, train, and manage volunteers to support event execution
- Manage event budgets and ensure all programs are cost-effective while maintaining a high standard of execution.
- Own sourcing and negotiations with vendors.
- Define, collect, and report on key program metrics to measure success and guide year over year improvements
- Develop communication strategies to promote events
- Stay current with industry trends in creative programming, events, and learning experiences. Incorporate new ideas and approaches into the planning and execution of internal events.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 8+ years of program or project management experience
- 8+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Job Tags
Full time,