Standards Program Leader, Standards Enablement Team

Job Description

Are you passionate about influencing and developing European and global information security, privacy, and cloud standards that help shape customer expectations, industry practices, and regulatory requirements? Have you served in a leadership position or as a subject matter expert in national or international standards development organizations (SDO)? Do you have substantive security experience working in technology, government, critical infrastructure, or highly regulated sectors such as energy, health, financial services, or telecommunications?

If so, you may be the independent, passionate, and seasoned individual contributor we’re looking for to join our international team of Standards Leaders focused on the influence and development of key standards on behalf of AWS customers.

Key Job Responsibilities

This role is critical in helping AWS develop concise and actionable thought leadership positions on new, emerging, and existing industry standards to drive discussion and alignment across AWS products, business, and assurance teams. Success in this role will be defined by your ability to effectively work with and across internal teams to develop and effectively represent AWS positions in relevant SDO fora; help ensure that customer and AWS interests are represented where possible, keep internal stakeholders informed of key standards developments, and ultimately, facilitate customer adoption and usage of AWS services.

A Day in the Life

The ideal candidate for this role is a leader who: prioritizes effectively, deals well with ambiguity, communicates clearly, delivers results on time and on budget; proactively identifies and removes roadblocks to pave the way for innovation; thrives in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple, competing priorities; is a positive influencer across diverse teams and organizations, can effectively rally support for key initiatives and help others drive simple, scalable solutions to meet customer expectations; and uses a data-driven approach to support business decision making.

About The Team

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management, or other related field.
• Working understanding of relevant European laws and regulations, e.g., DORA, EUCS, EU AI Act, etc.
• Experience serving in a leadership or subject matter expert capacity in national or international standards development organization committees, e.g., ISO SC/TC/PC/WG.
• 5+ years of security domain expertise, technical or non-technical skills in security management or analysis, and experience in specific areas of the security industry (e.g., IT Security Audit, Security & Regulatory Compliance, Industrial Security Design Implementation, Security Industry Standards, or Technical-Control/Security-Related Trade & Product Compliance), or similar leadership role.
• 5+ years of experience working with regulatory focused standards in information security (e.g., ISO/IEC, CEN/CENELEC) or other industry verticals including medical, transportation, energy, or gaming.
• 5+ years of experience in driving the development and adoption of industry frameworks, producing reports for senior leadership on regulatory, technology and related policy issues.
• 5+ years of experience leading security standards and interfacing with auditors, regulators, policymakers, and executive stakeholders.
• Basic project and/or program management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or advanced technical degree in computer science or related discipline.
• Depth understanding and/or experience with relevant European laws and regulations, e.g., DORA, EUCS, EU AI Act, etc.
• Technical fearlessness; comfortable in discussing complex security concepts, ability to clarify ambiguous requirements, consistently evaluating tradeoffs with technical and business teams.
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Strong project and/or program management skills.
• Depth experience with compliance and industry standards programs.
• Self-starter with proven track record of successfully working with a wide array of functional groups across an organization, geographies, and cultures while also able to work independently.
• Ability to investigate and analyze technical and regulatory issues applicable to AWS services.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.