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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Program Manager 2 - Flex SLS

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
In Person
Project & Program ManagementProgram Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 3 years of program or project management experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams.
  • At least 3 years of experience defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics.
  • A bachelor's degree.
  • Advanced-level knowledge of Excel, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs, and SQL.
  • Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.
Responsibilities
  • Maintain program quality and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
  • Build reporting mechanisms, identify opportunities, establish mitigation processes, respond to executive escalations, and work with cross-functional partners to communicate issues and progress.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations.
  • Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment by understanding business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind leadership decisions.
  • Partner with teams across the business to source, allocate, and coordinate resources.
  • Partner with customers, internal and external teams, and engineering teams to determine which projects move forward and their priority order.
  • Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks.
  • Work with program managers, business leaders, and the executive team to communicate about and influence critical business initiatives.
  • Drive investigations into executive, leadership, and BOPs escalations in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Support the Flex India SLS program with India Flex and operational business partners.
  • Identify business problems and ongoing process improvement opportunities through SLS support where possible.
  • Monitor India SLS metrics regularly to identify trends and process improvement opportunities.
  • Ensure a high standard for the driver experience while developing SLS programs to support the evolving Flex program.
  • Work closely with the worldwide SLS team and other key stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
  • At least 3 years of experience driving end-to-end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership.
  • At least 3 years of experience driving process improvements.
  • Experience in stakeholder management across multiple organizational levels.
  • Experience building processes, managing projects, and creating schedules.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
  • Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
  • Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
  • Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
  • Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
  • Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
  • Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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