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Amazon Senior Program Manager in Shanghai, China
Description
About Amazon Web Services Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and 6 more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Amazon Web Services came to China in 2013, and has been relentlessly investing and expanding our infrastructure and business since then. Amazon Web Services launched its China (Beijing) Region (operated by Sinnet) in September 2016 and its China (Ningxia) Region (operated by NWCD) in December 2017. In 2019, Amazon Web Services added a new region in Hong Kong, making China the only country with three Amazon Web Services regions aside from the U.S. In 2022, Amazon Web Services launched Local Zone in Taipei. Amazon Web Services has also established an AI lab in Shanghai and two IoT labs in Shenzhen and Taipei. The Amazon Web Services Partner Network has thousands of Partners in China. Amazon Web Services has supported over 10,000 local startups and has provided cloud skills training to over 700,000 talents. Amazon’s first two utility-scale renewable projects—a solar farm and a wind farm—are also generating clean energy to the country’s grid.
Key job responsibilities
This Senior Program Manager supporting AWS Senior executive is a highly visible role which serves as a business liaison, program leader and consultant on various business and technical topics across programs. The candidate for this position may possess deep knowledge and expertise in certain technical or business fields, and is expected to thinks strategically, takes initiatives, and operates effectively with leadership skills to influence partners and stakeholders across internal teams.
• Collaborate across organizations and represent from vertical business point of view to produce narratives and consolidated documents to be presented to various business review meetings with senior leadership both locally and internationally
• Drive the creation of content for executive presentations.
• Attend business/program review meetings, provide feedback and ask questions on areas that stand out.
• Ensure strong follow-up management on action items and questions.
• Collaboration with Sales Operation team for the annual planning process, agenda/topics for leadership meetings (quarterly, offsite).
• Act as consultant to various internal teams or projects. Support teams needing help thinking through problems (both business and communications).
• Develop mechanisms to drive best practice sharing across programs.
• Exploring trends and companies that present strategic opportunities or risks.
• Participate in and drive internal press release reviews.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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 AWS?
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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AWS is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace to deliver the best results for our customers. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status; we celebrate the diverse ways we work. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Beijing, CHN | Guangzhou, 44, CHN | Shanghai, CHN | Shenzhen, CHN
Basic Qualifications
10+ years’ experience industry research and analyst relate to high-tech industry or management consulting background
5+ years’ experience engaging with Senior Executives
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Proven, successful track record of influencing across the organization and leading others cross-functionally to deliver on projects and goal
Proven, successful track record of working with headquarters on global projects
BA/BS Degree in Business Administration or other relevant degree (accredited)
Strong business acumen
Preferred Qualifications
Deep understanding and knowhow on cloud industry
International working background with nearly native English-speaking capability