Partner Portfolio Manager, Apj

5+ years' experience in large-scale operations program or project management
- Experience managing program implementations
- AWS certification or equivalent knowledge of cloud technology business value

Job summary
AWS is seeking an experienced Portfolio Manager to support the growth of our AWS Partner Strategic Initiatives team. The Portfolio Manager role must drive scale of the initiative across a diverse Partner base, a growing team, and large group of internal stakeholders. The level of ambiguity in the Portfolio Manager role is high, driven by our expanding scope, and pioneering of new business requirements in the areas of business planning, contracting, business approvals, project governance, and reporting. As a result, the Portfolio Manager must have a deep understanding of the business’ and end user’s needs, and proficiently translate those needs into the right solution.

In addition, the Portfolio Manager must be skilled in identifying and leveraging internal/external tools to capture status of ongoing engagements, report on status to key internal/external stakeholders, and enable leadership the ability to easily audit the results of the overall business. As a global initiative with a broad scope, breaking new ground will allow and require the Portfolio Manager to recommend improvements to the way projects/programs are scoped, built, tested and deployed across the organization. The Portfolio Manager will be tasked with defining an operating model and supporting business objectives in order to deliver the best product or process with the most efficient use of resources and technologies. Automation of our key processes will be critical to our ability to scale effectively.

Key job responsibilities
- Monitor performance of portfolio and provide guidance on path-to-green for underperforming partners
- First-level escalation point for partner-raised and AWS-raised risks and issues
- Build and continuously improve our library of assets and templates in support of all functions across an engagement
- Serves as an authority on project issues to business managers, and other project/program managers
- Perform customer/partner needs and task analysis, scope projects, and evaluate existing processes to support the expansion of virtual operations in multiple global locations
- Can properly prioritize competing projects across departments
- Can make difficult tradeoff decisions and defend those decisions to the different participating teams
- Drives significant communication across departments, to front line and executive level managers

A day in the life

**Mentorship & Career Growth**:
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

About the team

**Work/Life Balance**:
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
- Ability to make decisions guided by policies, procedures, and business plan with limited guidance
- Results-oriented, prioritizes work activities, plans and stays organized in order to meet commitments
- Presentation, communication (oral & written), and relationship building skills across all levels of management
- Negotiation and issue resolution capabilities
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science