Senior Program Manager AGS📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Program Manager AGS to join its MENAT Strategic Initiatives team. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and focuses on driving cross-region programs that accelerate cloud adoption, deepen customer engagement, and create measurable market impact across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey. The role is central to AWS's expanding presence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, aligning with Saudi Vision 2030's goals for economic diversification, digital transformation, and local talent development.

Role Overview and Impact

The Senior Program Manager operates independently across multiple workstreams, requiring a hands-on approach and comfort with ambiguity. This position involves daily interaction with senior leadership, including Directors and VPs, as well as external stakeholders such as C-suite customers, government officials, and partners. The successful candidate will be at the center of program execution, responsible for influencing without direct authority across various teams including sales, professional services, partner, marketing, and public sector. This requires building trust, communicating with precision, and ensuring accountability through clarity.

A primary focus of this role is to ensure strategic programs progress effectively. The Program Manager will articulate program status, risks, and decisions to leadership in a concise, data-informed, and actionable manner, connecting strategy to execution for all stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Define program scope, milestones, success metrics, and delivery timelines for cross-region initiatives, with a focus on KSA market priorities.
• Build and maintain program plans and governance frameworks to ensure complex programs remain on track.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of programs from ideation through launch, iteration, and scale.
• Proactively identify program risks and blockers, escalate them early, and propose mitigation paths.
• Coordinate with local KSA stakeholders, government entities, and regulatory bodies to ensure program compliance and alignment with national priorities.
• Engage with senior internal leaders (Directors, GMs, VPs) and external executives, including Saudi government officials and C-suite customers, to drive alignment on priorities and resources.
• Navigate matrixed organizations to build consensus and secure commitments without direct authority.
• Serve as the connective tissue between sales, professional services, partner, marketing, and public sector teams.
• Represent the team in cross-functional forums, leadership reviews, and customer-facing engagements.
• Build and maintain relationships with Saudi public sector entities, semi-government organizations, and strategic partners.
• Facilitate leadership reporting by producing crisp, data-driven status updates, dashboards, and narrative documents (*, weekly business reviews, MBRs, QBRs).
• Translate complex program details into clear executive summaries suitable for VP-level and above.
• Document decisions, action items, and follow-ups, driving accountability across teams.
• Write compelling narratives (*, 6-pagers, PR/FAQs, strategy documents) aligned to Amazon's writing culture.
• Establish scalable mechanisms such as cadences, templates, tooling, and reporting frameworks to increase team velocity.
• Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and procurement processes where applicable.
• Analyze data (*, pipeline, coverage, program metrics) to surface insights and drive decisions.
• Continuously improve processes through retrospectives, automation, and simplification.
• Support Saudization targets by identifying opportunities for local talent development and knowledge transfer within program teams.
• Coordinate multi-stakeholder events, conferences, and campaigns (virtual and in-person) from planning through post-event analysis, with emphasis on KSA-based activations.
• Manage logistics, timelines, content development, and vendor coordination for events and campaigns.
• Drive post-event measurement and impact reporting.

Required Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience in program management or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and manage multiple workstreams concurrently.
• Experience engaging with and presenting to senior leadership and external executives.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority across diverse functional teams.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, for precise articulation of program details and executive summaries.
• Experience in data-informed decision making and reporting.

Work Environment and Collaboration

This role is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Senior Program Manager will work closely with sales leaders, solutions architects, partner managers, marketing, and public sector teams. The position requires navigating a multicultural environment and collaborating across various time zones with regional and global teams. Opportunities will arise to improve team operations by building new workflows, streamlining intake processes, and establishing mechanisms for enhanced collaboration.

Application Information

Candidates interested in this Senior Program Manager AGS role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) are encouraged to apply.