Tech Community Ambassador, Amazon Development Center

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to support with driving tech community engagement and talent acquisition initiatives across Amazon's rapidly growing technical teams in Romania. As part of our dynamic team of 300 tech employees spread across Bucharest, Iasi, and Timisoara, you will work with leaders of Stores, Security, and Devices, including Customer Behavior Analytics, Privacy, Security Identity and Access Management, Compliance Shared Services, and RING. The ideal candidate will develop and execute multi-year tech site strategies, build strong university partnerships, manage stakeholder relationships, and enhance Amazon's visibility in the tech community. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape Amazon's tech presence in Romania while working with innovative teams that are creating AI-driven solutions in analytics, security, compliance, and smart home technology.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop and execute multi-year tech site strategies, focusing on university partnerships, tech event participation, and expanding candidate reach
• Collaborate with senior tech leaders to ensure their active involvement in initiatives to represent Amazon in the tech communities, universities and events, fostering a culture of shared responsibility.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including vendors, finance, legal, and procurement teams, to ensure smooth execution of Amazon initiatives.
• Coordinate Academic programs with Universities in Bucharest, Iasi and Timisoara and increase talent pipeline
• Establish presence in Tech events and enhance visibility in the tech community
• Develop and manage the company's tech-focused social media strategy, to attract and retain top tech talent
• Set up and manage an online marketing program to promote job openings and career opportunities at the company in sync with business need.
• Analyze metrics and employee experience data, providing actionable insights to leadership for strategic decision-making.
• Actively manage the timeline and deliverables of projects, providing updates to stakeholders; raising blockers and proposing solutions

A day in the life

As the sun rises, Sarah, a Level 6 Tech Community Ambassador, begins her day with a quick review of her calendar and inbox. She notices an urgent message from a Tech Director about an upcoming hackathon and makes a mental note to address it promptly. Sarah's first meeting of the day is a video call with a group of Tech L7s to discuss the company's presence at an international tech conference. She presents her strategy for growing Amazon's visibility and attracting top talent, fielding questions and incorporating valuable feedback from the senior leaders.

Mid-morning finds Sarah in back-to-back meetings with vendor management and legal teams. She's negotiating the terms of a new contract with a digital marketing agency specializing in tech recruitment. The legal team raises concerns about data privacy, and Sarah skillfully mediates between the stakeholders, ensuring that both the company's interests and regulatory requirements are met. As lunch approaches, she quickly grabs a salad and heads to a working lunch with the finance team to review the budget for the upcoming quarter's Tech Community Engagement initiatives.

The afternoon kicks off with a brainstorming session alongside her team to develop innovative ideas for a virtual reality campus recruitment event. Sarah's phone buzzes with a message from procurement about a delay in receiving branded merchandise for an upcoming tech fair. She swiftly coordinates with her partners to find alternative solutions, demonstrating her ability to problem-solve under pressure. Later, she joins a call with Tech Directors from various departments to align on the messaging for a series of tech talks aimed at showcasing the company's ai-driven projects to potential candidates.

As the day winds down, Sarah prepares for a presentation to the executive team scheduled for the following morning. She meticulously reviews data on the impact of recent tech community engagement campaigns, crafting a compelling narrative that demonstrates the ROI of her team's efforts. Before logging off, she sends a few emails to university partners about upcoming collaboration opportunities and jots down ideas for a new social media campaign targeting software engineers. Despite the long and demanding day, Sarah feels a sense of accomplishment, knowing that her work is shaping the company's image in the competitive tech talent market.

About the team

Amazon has 300 tech employees in Bucharest, Iasi and Timisoara, across a number of teams in Stores, Security, and Devices, with the larger ones being (1) Customer Behavior Analytics, with a mission to answer who did what, where and when it was done, and how key metrics were impacted, ultimately aiming to answer why customer behavior changes, and how to influence it, (2) Privacy with mission to offer full transparency to our customers on what, why and where we store their personal data, (3) Security Identity and Access Management, with a mission to protect all Amazon applications and data-stores by enabling automated logging, monitoring and abuses detection, (4) Compliance Shared Services, with a mission to automate risk evaluation and investigations by providing unstructured content processing such as document understanding and validation and building computer vision and named entity recognition systems) and (5) RING, with a mission to create affordable, innovative, and easy-to-use smart home security devices.

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