Job Description:
The Workplace Design Guidelines and Standards team is looking for an experienced Design Program Manager with strong cross-functional leadership skills to own the creation, implementation, and ongoing refinement of Amazon's Global Workplace Design Guidelines and Standards for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
Mission:
The Workplace Guidelines and Standards team's mission is to deliver best-in-class, fully-integrated, accessible, and easily navigable documentation supporting the consistent design and delivery of corporate workplaces.
This team ensures design practices align with Amazon's high standards for corporate space, focusing on both innovative solutions and practical application across various design disciplines.
Responsibilities:
* Coordinate with cross-functional partners to develop standards and guidelines to support new design solutions.
* Act as a Subject Matter Expert, consulting with Concept Designers and Design & Construction delivery teams.
* Integrate constraints and requirements from cross-functional stakeholders into efficient, scalable globally-relevant documentation that is accessible, customer-friendly, and secure.
Requirements:
* Intermediate to advanced knowledge of building codes and accessibility standards.
* Strong behaviors in critical thinking, problem solving, issue resolution, risk assessment, and high attention-to-detail.
* Experience in managing and updating design standards and guidelines on a global scale.
* Experience in digital asset management and metadata-driven data architecture.
* Experience working in a matrixed organization.
About the Team:
The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team provides real estate transaction expertise, business partnering, space and occupancy planning, capital investment program management, facility maintenance, and operations in more than 60 countries.
GREF is organized into three pillars: Regional Portfolio Management, Global Center of Enablement, and Global Center of Expertise. Workplace Design and Construction sits within the Global Center of Expertise and includes the disciplines of Global Design, Workplace Guidelines, Business Development, Global Integrated Facilities Management, and regional Design and Construction (D&C) delivery.
The Workplace Guidelines team owns the creation, implementation, and ongoing refinement of Amazon's Global Workplace Design Guidelines and Standards, ensuring regional teams have comprehensive documentation to support delivering and refreshing spaces that best support how Amazonians work in the office.
Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.
We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.