AWS Director, Environmental

1. Minimum college/university degree in environmental engineering or law or other applicable field.
2. 15 or more years of relevant experience, with a proven record of building and managing a world class environmental team for a dynamic and growing enterprise.
3. Demonstrated ability to build compliance programs and embed a culture of innovation and compliance in a large, global enterprise.
4. Proven strong leadership and management experience, with a record of proven team member development.
5. Experience designing and implementing compliance policies, processes and procedures.
6. More than 5 years experience in data analytics and metrics driven approach for a very data driven company.
7. Experience interfacing with and influencing up and across the organization, including senior business, site and legal leaders.
8. Ability to identify, develop and implement department goals and strategies.
9. High ethical standards with proven ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an accomplished leader to take its global environmental program to the next level as AWS continues its rapid growth. AWS offers services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from various Availability Zones (AZs) across global geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world - including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies - to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
This position will be based in Seattle or Virginia and support the full range of AWS' businesses. International travel will be required.
The AWS Environmental Team is a rapidly growing and dynamic team with members around the globe. It is key to enabling AWS' worldwide growth, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS' operations in over 30 regions globally, across the full life-cycle of our physical data centers (and our reverse logistics operations). Key responsibilities include defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems and driving their implementation and continuous improvement; setting and refining global policies and procedures and working in partnership with business teams to ensure their execution; overseeing the development of standards, automation, tools, auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement by environmental teams on global initiatives, including those that are part of Amazon's ambitious sustainability goals; providing specialist expertise as AWS delivers exciting new businesses and cutting edge technologies; and engaging with the required AWS stakeholders to provide scalable and effective environmental compliance and sustainability strategies that support current and future business objectives.

Key job responsibilities
As the Global Director of the Environmental Team, you will be responsible for hiring, leading, developing and motivating an experienced group of environmental professionals, including:
1. Continuing team development to ensure AWS is not only raising the bar on environmental compliance, but is proactive and looking around corners to anticipate newly emerging environmental challenges and trends.
2. Driving a goals and data-driven approach to ensuring that key objectives and /or outcomes are being achieved on the desired timelines and that our investment levels are driving the desired results.
3. Driving an innovation mindset to ensure continuous improvement of AWS's environmental programs while inventing and simplifying compliance processes to increase efficiency.
4. Driving automation, and creation of mechanisms to enable the teams to focus on their highest value contributions to AWS.
5. Shaping AWS' long term strategy on high impact and often novel issues on a global basis, and supporting partner teams across AWS achieve their goals including on high profile and important initiatives.
6. Ensuring that business partners deeply understand the implications of environmental compliance, and view the AWS Environmental Compliance team as valued partners in achieving their business goals.
7. Developing strong Amazonian leaders and highly motivated team members.

Leadership Qualities

1. Strategic thinker
2. Effective communicator who can use their commercial/operational acumen to earn trust and influence
3. Strong developer of talent
4. Determined but pragmatic advocate of environmental issues with a deep understanding of operational issues
5. Ability to Dive Deep
6. Data-driven approach to problem-solving and strategic planning

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

1. Excellent judgment, discretion and diplomacy.
2. Excellent problem solving skills, an ability to innovate, and attention to detail.
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $218,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $340,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.