Engagement Manager, AWS Solutions, Just Walk Out

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

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. Born from years of experience at Amazon Go, Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines, bringing fast and convenient checkout experiences to shoppers. JWOS is seeking an Engagement Manager to educate, evangelize and drive implementation of Just Walk Out technology with retailers globally. In this role you will combine technical expertise with strong project leadership skills to drive successful implementations of Just Walk Out technology. You will bridge business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating technical discussions and ensuring alignment with customer outcomes. Applying JWOS best practices, you will distill customer/partner needs into clear technical requirements, decompose complex problems, and make informed trade-off decisions considering performance, scalability, security, and business impact. Ultimately, you will own the digital integration workstream to launch new Just Walk Out stores Possessing strong technology and program/project management experience, you will validate technical solutions against business goals, recognize when additional technical evaluation is needed, and manage technical risks. You will be expected to develop retail domain-specific expertise, and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. As you progress, you’ll lead increasingly complex technical projects, shape cross-organizational technical strategies, and establish best practices in your domain. In this role you will apply your management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans, proactively identify and manage risks, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate, and drive projects to successful completion, while exceeding customer expectation The JWOS organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using autonomous retail solutions. We work together with customer teams and 3P partner teams to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team leverages our collective autonomous retail best practices to help customers achieve specific outcomes related to new store launches. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of leading the delivery of IT projects with external customers or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of program or engagement management work leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects experience
• Experience in project management of technical programs

Nice To Haves

• project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2)
• AWS certification
• Knowledge of technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms, and consumer-facing technology
• Strong presentation and communication skills that effectively convey best practices, project management, and risk mitigation strategies. Proven success as a project/program manager in complex enterprise environments

Responsibilities

• Define and track the development plan for new partners, new integration and introduction of new features to a customer
• Define and track the digital integration launch plan for new store launches or migrations
• Define and track the test plan for new integrations and launches
• Support SAs on customer engagements to educate, scope and troubleshoot customer integrations
• Support SAs in resolving Customer support escalations
• Work with Product teams on the tracking plans for VOCs and new feature tech readiness
• Own the improvement of Digital attribute tracking across team and systems
• Perform low-level validation and troubleshooting tasks during store launch or migration (i.e., should be familiar with Libby tags, able to view a session id, configure basic settings in merchant portal)
• Own status reporting of launches and migrations to internal and external stakeholders

Benefits

• Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level