Principal, AWS Workforce Development

Application deadline: Jun 8, 2026

Are you passionate about building meaningful workforce development partnerships with local stakeholders - ones where everyone wins? Do you thrive on the challenge of designing innovative programs and fresh approaches to workforce development? Amazon is seeking a dynamic team member to do exactly that, playing a key role in driving our economic development initiatives forward in our US regions.

Key job responsibilities

  • Own the full workforce program lifecycle, from gap identification and solution design through pilot execution and scaled delivery. Ensure programs are delivered on time, within budget, and informed by data.
  • Assess current workforce development offerings against labor market demands and expansion timelines. Identify competency mismatches and build a pipeline of new program concepts to address unmet needs.
  • Set a multi-horizon strategic vision for workforce development that operates across national, state, regional, and local levels. Translate that vision into a prioritized roadmap aligned to talent needs.
  • Cultivate high-trust relationships with political, economic development, and education leaders at all levels of government. Secure the policy, funding, and institutional support needed to bring programs to scale.
  • Represent the workforce development mission through public speaking, written content, convenings, and coalition-building with policymakers, educators, employers, and community organizations.
  • Champion the needs of internal teams and external partners to continuously increase program quality and relevance.
  • Partner with the research and analysis team to evaluate program effectiveness, make evidence-based decisions, and communicate outcomes to senior leadership and external stakeholders.

A day in the life

The role will be responsible for identifying evolving opportunities and leading an entrepreneurial approach to developing new solutions and approaches, building consensus internally and externally, iterating through real world pilot launches, fostering adoption, and driving implementation to scale. This includes analyzing labor demand and supply side dynamics, building novel partnership models and approaches, marshaling internal and external resources, aligning external political leadership, and partnering with other allied employers and educational institutions.

About the team

AWS Workforce Development is a part of the Global Public Policy team. We work seamlessly with our public policy teammates, internal customers (particularly AWS infrastructure teams), and partners across Amazon.com to drive a robust and highly successful portfolio of data center infrastructure-based workforce development programs.


Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Budget Management, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Establish Priorities, Funding, Government, Leadership, Network Operations Center, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Sales Pipeline, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Time Management


About the Company:
Amazon.com Inc


At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit

Company Size:
10,000 employees or more


Industry:
Retail


Founded:
1994


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