About the Role
The AFBP (Amazon Future Builder Program) Program Manager is a high-impact, cross-functional role responsible for the end-to-end management and transformation of Amazon India's flagship leadership development program for MBA hires. This role directly oversees three swimlanes — Stores, Finance, and RBS — managing the full lifecycle from demand collection through graduation, while partnering with L8 and L10 leaders across business and PXT to deliver on the program's core promise: accelerated career growth for premium talent.
Incumbent of this role is expected to transform how AFBP operates — leveraging Agentic AI to reimagine manual processes, building deep program partnerships modeled on best-in-class benchmarks, and driving measurable promotion outcomes that justify the program's investment thesis.
Key job responsibilities
Program Lifecycle Management
- Own the end-to-end AFBP journey across three swimlanes (Stores, Finance, RBS) and multiple concurrent cohorts (3–4 active batches at any given time)
- Partner with AUTA during demand collection, ensuring business leaders align demand with OPEX goals and honor commitments for incoming cohorts
- Design and execute the annual Incubator Program — a one-week intensive onboarding experience requiring coordination with multiple L8+ leaders, curriculum design, logistics, and cross-functional alignment
- Drive rotation matching: understanding AFBP aspirations, mapping available roles across orgs, matching employee preferences with business needs, and ensuring smooth handovers between managers across stints
- Manage performance evaluation cycles, talent reviews (Q1/Q3), mentorship tracking, engagement programming, and graduation (job code transitions, compensation updates)
Program Transformation through AI
- Deploy Agentic AI to automate lifecycle communications, rotation nudges, manager follow-ups, and stakeholder coordination — eliminating manual email-heavy processes
- Build and iterate an AI-powered Rotation Matching Engine that reads available roles, employee strengths, program construct, and historical mapping outcomes to recommend optimal placements — learning and improving with each rotational cycle
- Use AI to surface insights on program health: promotion readiness signals, engagement patterns, and early warning indicators for at-risk participants
Strategic Program Partnership & Benchmarking
- Liaise with IN OPS to adopt and adapt their best-in-class mode
- Drive accountability from leaders and managers who are expected to invest in talent development — ensuring the accelerated learning promise translates into actual promotion outcomes, not just rotational exposure
- Build and present QBRs for each swimlane, inspecting promotion pipelines, identifying blockers, and escalating where the program's career growth promise is not being honored
- Partner with AUTA on internship experience design, campus strategy alignment, and incubator planning
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
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