The AWS Demand Planning team is looking for a Technical Program Manager to facilitate planning EC2 infrastructure. This role will require the candidate to deep dive the individual steps that are required to take an instance from idea to delivery and ensure that AWS maintains a valid plan for these products at all times. Specifically, this individual will impact the overall AWS CapEx plan by: planning the required servers needed to launch in an AWS region/new product, understanding demand shaping options for internal customers to cost/power efficient hardware, and helping compare EC2’s forecast against the approved CapEx plan. This role works on a team of several other planners who divide the EC2 service into portfolios to allow the candidate to dive deep into the technical aspects of EC2 products. The ideal candidate is one who has worked at the intersection of software engineering teams, finance, and supply chains; who can understand constraints from each group and work between worlds to create strategic plans to ensure EC2’s continued growth while optimizing for long-term efficiency.

Key job responsibilities
- Working with EC2 PMs to understand the launch and expansion roadmap
- Matching supply of EC2 positions and server materials from supply chain partners to the types of demand that fit within those positions
- Quickly responding to changes in the roadmap based on supply availability, customer demand, or hardware engineering constraints.

A day in the life
Our team operates on a bi-monthly planning cycle, so we expect to spend ~2 weeks creating a new plan, ~2 weeks adjusting the plan based on feedback from our downstream partners, and ~4 weeks monitoring, tuning, and evaluating the plan. In addition, we expect this role to work closely with SDE teams that are concurrently developing new software to help increase planning effectiveness.

About the team
The AWS Demand Planning team is responsible for building forecasts/plans that drive almost all of the CapEx spend for AWS, and will directly impact the purchase of $billions of server components, data center power, and networking equipment. The team is primarily composed of TPMs but we are the primary customer of several SDE teams in EC2 and AWS Infrastructure who software to improve the planning process.

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