Strategic Initiatives Leader
Project & Program ManagementPosted 16 Jul 2026
Advertised as “PACE Strategic Initiatives Leader, APJC, APJC Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE)”
Posted 16 Jul 2026
Advertised as “PACE Strategic Initiatives Leader, APJC, APJC Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE)”
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AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS Cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.
Be the force multiplier that accelerates innovation from AI to Agents to Robotics, at scale for AWS's most forward-thinking partners. The AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team builds working prototypes leveraging frontier technologies in days and weeks, not months, and we need a Technical Program Manager who can own and grow our Portfolio of Strategic Initiatives. If you're passionate about technology, energized by building programs that create non-linear impact through technology, partners, and the AWS sales team, this is your opportunity to reshape how APJC PACE delivers its most strategic initiatives into market.
In this role, you'll own the APJC PACE Strategic Initiatives motion end-to-end. You'll identify, onboard, and take to market a growing ecosystem of Innovation Partners, lead the delivery of emerging technology solutions and accelerators to market and push the boundaries of frontier technologies. You will design, deploy and inspect mechanisms that are purpose built to drive accelerated growth for APJC PACE across a diversity of new and emerging technologies.
You will represent PACE at Events, AWS Partner Summits, re:invent and other industry forums. You will be expected to build mechanisms and expand into new markets and industries whilst delivering outsized revenue growth. This isn't a typical TPM role: you'll sit at the intersection of AI innovation, scale execution and ecosystem strategy, working on scale problems that don't have obvious answers while creating programs that drive outsized business impact with visibility across the industry.
Key job responsibilities
Own and deliver PACE Strategic Initiatives objectives, defining strategy, execution plans, and growth targets that expand PACE's reach beyond the core team. Recruit, enable, and manage a growing ecosystem of partners through the "Amazon Designed, Partner Delivered" model - from onboarding through production launch. Design and operate scalable mechanisms that ensures high-quality in initiative outcomes independently. Establish and track program KPIs - launch rates, production conversion, time-to-delivery, and business impact - using data to continuously improve the program. Partner with Sales, Solutions Architecture, and field teams to route and qualify opportunities across direct and scale channels
About the team
The PACE team is a small, high-impact group of Prototyping Architects, Design Technologists, and Technical Program Managers who build prototypes at a pace most organizations can't match. You'll work alongside builders who are equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture patterns and shipping production-ready code. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with our partner ecosystem, field sales teams, and solutions architects across AWS, while helping shape how a growing network of technology partners brings AI to customers at scale. We move fast, we experiment constantly, and we measure success by what makes it to production.
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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