Job ID: 2893193 | Amazon Spain Services, S.L.U.
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).
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.
As a Design PM, you will have direct responsibility for coordinating with a wide variety of cross-functional partners to develop standards and guidelines to support new design solutions. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert, consulting with Concept Designers and Design & Construction delivery teams. You will integrate constraints and requirements from cross-functional stakeholders into efficient, scalable globally-relevant documentation that is accessible, customer-friendly, and secure. With your global and regional teammates, you will evaluate and prioritize projects in response to customer needs and technical team inputs.
You bring most or all of the following to the role:
1. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of building codes and accessibility standards.
2. Strong behaviors in critical thinking, problem solving, issue resolution, risk assessment, and high attention-to-detail.
3. Experience in managing and updating design standards and guidelines on a global scale.
4. Experience in digital asset management and metadata-driven data architecture.
5. Experience working in a matrixed organization.
Location: Barcelona (preferred), with options to be based in Madrid or London.
Key job responsibilities:
1. Act as a regional Guidelines Subject Matter Expert (SME) by consulting with regional business partners during change requests and participate in the development of narrative justifications.
2. Develop, drive adoption of, and maintain tools and procedures to accelerate the organization's ability to adapt to changing priorities and urgent requests.
3. Develop, or work with vendors to develop, standard specifications and guideline documents.
4. Collaborate with peers across regions to elevate regional differences to a global perspective.
5. Own the roadmap for new and revised guidelines and standards for your region.
A day in the life: The Workplace Guidelines Program Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify root causes from lessons learned, track change requests, and develop end-to-end complex programs and initiatives.
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