Principal Program Manager - Tech, Customer Success Center of Excellence, AWS Specialist and Partner Organization

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud platform provider. The Principal Program Manager – Tech will serve as the operational backbone for the Customer Success Center of Excellence, managing cross-team initiatives, resolving technical and organizational blockers, and coordinating executive planning and business reviews. The role also oversees headcount, budgets, events, strategic relationships, and consensus-building across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the operating arm for the CS COE, managing cross-team initiatives that span organizational boundaries and require coordination across CS COE and stakeholder teams
• Coordinate with stakeholder teams to identify and resolve blockers (incl. technical blockers), leveraging technical understanding to communicate effectively about technical issues without requiring translation
• Own the development and writing of Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for the CS COE, synthesizing business performance data and organizational health metrics into strategic narratives, and serve as quality control lead for all planning and strategy documents, ensuring consistency in messaging and alignment with organizational priorities
• Own the process for development of operational planning documents for the CS COE, driving the end-to-end creation and editing process for these critical planning cycles
• Participate in executive forums, synthesizing complex discussions into key decisions, actionable insights, and decision frameworks that drive organizational alignment
• Serve as the organizational lead for headcount tracking, maintaining real-time visibility into staffing and partnering with Finance, HR, and Recruiting
• Manage the CS COE budget, maintaining full visibility into actuals, forecasts, and variances, and own Travel & Expense management
• Architect and manage the annual summit and events calendar, lead meeting planning, and partner with communications to support speaking engagements and award applications
• Build and leverage strategic relationships with peer business operations teams, Finance, HR, Recruiting, and other support functions to drive outcomes requiring cross-organizational coordination
• Proactively identify operational barriers and broker solutions between competing interests across organizational silos
• Influence senior leaders and drive consensus on contentious issues, removing barriers and accelerating execution on the organization's highest-priority objectives

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent
• • 7+ years of experience in program management, business operations, or strategy roles in fast-paced, large-scale organizations
• • Technical understanding sufficient to communicate effectively with stakeholder teams about product-related issues and blockers without requiring translation
• • Strong written communication skills, including experience writing executive-level documents such as QBRs
• • Experience supporting or advising senior leaders
• • 7+ years of technical program management experience
• • Previous experience in a Product/Technical Business Operations, or Technical Program Manager role
• • Experience working directly with customer-facing technical teams in cloud computing, AWS services, or SaaS products
• • Experience owning or contributing to annual planning processes and running operational cadences such as QBRs or MBRs
• • Experience managing headcount in a large, matrixed organization
• • Experience planning and executing events, offsites, or summits
• • Experience managing budgets and working cross-functionally with Finance teams, with expertise in Excel for data analysis and business reporting