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Contract TypeFull-time
Workplace typeOn-site
LocationRiyadh

Job Description

About the Role

The AFBP (Amazon Future Builder Program) Program Manager is a high-impact, cross-functional role at Amazon, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is responsible for the end-to-end management and transformation of Amazon India's flagship leadership development program for MBA hires. The role directly oversees three specific swimlanes—Stores, Finance, and RBS—managing the full program lifecycle from demand collection through graduation, with a core promise of accelerated career growth for premium talent.

Key Responsibilities

This role involves comprehensive program lifecycle management and strategic oversight, including:

  • Owning the end-to-end AFBP journey across three swimlanes (Stores, Finance, RBS) and managing multiple concurrent cohorts (3–4 active batches).
  • Partnering with AUTA during demand collection to ensure business leaders align demand with OPEX goals and honor commitments for incoming cohorts.
  • Designing and executing the annual Incubator Program, a one-week intensive onboarding experience requiring coordination with L8+ leaders, curriculum design, logistics, and cross-functional alignment.
  • Driving rotation matching by understanding AFBP aspirations, mapping available roles across organizations, matching employee preferences with business needs, and ensuring smooth handovers between managers across stints.
  • Managing performance evaluation cycles, talent reviews (Q1/Q3), mentorship tracking, engagement programming, and graduation processes (job code transitions, compensation updates).

Program Transformation through AI

A core aspect of this role is to transform how AFBP operates by leveraging Agentic AI to reimagine manual processes, specifically through:

  • Deploying Agentic AI to automate lifecycle communications, rotation nudges, manager follow-ups, and stakeholder coordination, thereby eliminating manual, email-heavy processes.
  • Building and iterating an AI-powered Rotation Matching Engine that reads available roles, employee strengths, program construct, and historical mapping outcomes to recommend optimal placements, learning and improving with each rotational cycle.
  • Utilizing AI to surface insights on program health, including promotion readiness signals, engagement patterns, and early warning indicators for participants at risk.

Strategic Program Partnership and Benchmarking

The Program Manager will build deep program partnerships modeled on best-in-class benchmarks and drive measurable promotion outcomes, which includes:

  • Liaising with IN OPS to adopt and adapt their best-in-class models for program operations.
  • Driving accountability from leaders and managers who are expected to invest in talent development, ensuring the accelerated learning promise translates into actual promotion outcomes, not just rotational exposure.
  • Building and presenting Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for each swimlane, inspecting promotion pipelines, identifying blockers, and escalating issues where the program's career growth promise is not being honored.
  • Partnering with AUTA on internship experience design, campus strategy alignment, and incubator planning.

Qualifications

Candidates for this role should possess the following qualifications:

  • A minimum of 5-10 years of professional experience in program management, talent development, or a related cross-functional leadership role.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex programs end-to-end, including design, execution, and evaluation.
  • Experience in leveraging technology, particularly AI, for process automation and data-driven insights.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively with senior leaders.
  • Proven track record of driving measurable outcomes in talent development and career acceleration.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operating within a dynamic and cross-functional environment focused on leadership development and program innovation.


Requirements

  • Requires 5-10 Years experience

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