Description

Do you want to help define and build education programs to help keep Amazonians secure? As the leader of Amazon Security Learning, you will manage a team of passionate learning and training specialists focused on how to build measurable and impactful education programs. You will work directly with business leaders across Amazon Security to identify educational needs including face to face efforts and digital program content. This work includes understanding regulatory landscapes and how to prioritize security campaigns while measuring impact.

In this role, you will work closely with leaders across Amazon to develop learning and training requirements to help keep Amazon and our teams secure. This work includes design strategies, metrics, and inspection mechanisms that the right content meets the security needs for the business.

Key job responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to lead a team focused on cross-functional initiatives to meet regulatory requirements. This includes designing content that helps to identify ways for Amazonians to understand key concepts as secure data handling and privacy. This involves persona research, building a learning and training calendar, working with customers to understand technical requirements for key security needs, driving industry thought-leadership, and working with security and business teams to define new needs.

As the ideal candidate, you possess a business and technology background that enables you to lead and drive engagements across varied security organizations. You have domain expertise in key security use cases, understand the challenges involved in training and measuring security outcomes, and are able to work backwards from customer requirements to suggest scalable solutions and programs. You have the technical depth to articulate the needs for security. In addition, you have a good understanding of the security learning market trends, ecosystem, opportunities, and are passionate about building content that drives positive security behaviors. You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with teams across Amazon.

A day in the life

A day in the life of this role is working with your team to build compelling content, and building scalable programs and mechanisms to increase awareness and adoption of security-first behaviors at Amazon. This means you practice a keen sense of ownership and know how to drive proactive engagement with customers.

About the team

About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences. Amazon Security 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 Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture. In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth. We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance. We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience)

• 7+ years of experience in learning technology, program, or product management

• 7+ years of experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

• 7+ years of people management

• Experience with owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition; feature delivery and tradeoffs of a program need; project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple products simultaneous and meet deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with training platforms

• Proven track record of taking ownership and delivering results in ambiguous problem spaces

• Strong understanding of instructional design and learning technology

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; experience using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $236,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.