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Principal, Tech and Society, IXT

Amazon

Amazon

Arlington, VA, USA
Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2024

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Are you a future thinker with a belief that the use of emerging technology can inspire inclusivity? The Inclusive eXperiences Technology (IXT) organization within Amazon drives the evolution toward our goal of bridging emergent technology together with a culture of inclusion.

IXT is seeking an experienced thought leader for the role of Principal, Technology and Society to leverage technological advancements in generative AI and ML to drive inclusion and raise awareness. This role provides thought leadership and technical subject matter expertise to the IXT team, and leads a broader vision and strategy toward internal and external engagement efforts.

This key leader will operate cross-functionally, leveraging their subject matter knowledge and relationships to grow internal and external partners and stakeholders. The key mission of the position is to earn trust for IXT Inclusive Tech strategy, communicate Amazon’s use of AI for good in communities unlock additional impact for partners and communities by listening, learning the customer needs, informing, sharing stories and working together to solve problems. This role will also inform and produce inclusive tech messaging and program content and grow an internal group of volunteer technologists to advance IXT’s inclusive tech community investment strategy. This role will include a combination of high visibility engagements and behind the scenes support.


Key job responsibilities
• Represent the organization at related AI and ML convenings and coalition building spaces
• Curate ready-made Inclusive Tech examples, content and collateral to support relationships, activations and main stage opportunities
• Drive strategy on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI/ML technologies, policies, and societal impacts, tracking developments and taking a forward-looking approach to anticipating and addressing emerging challenges
• Deliver written and oral presentations, representing the Inclusive Tech vision, strategy and work
• Secure relationships with internal and external experts who serve as subject matter experts, ambassadors, speakers and advisors to the Inclusive Tech external engagement strategy
• Develop and execute a relationship strategy with strategically selected external technology organizations and leaders
• Generate partner leads at scale across a number of audience segments
• Utilize persona journeys to work backwards from the customer’s needs and priorities
• Provide reports and updates relevant tech related developments in policy, innovations, leadership, and initiatives
• Use metric to capture insights and to contribute to the one IXT story
• Provide proactive, engaging and frequent communication with stakeholders and partners

Travel required including occasional international travel.


About the team
The Inclusive eXperiences Technology External Strategies team prepares Amazon to respond to external DEI issues impacting our employees, customers, and their communities. We serve as the advance team peering around corners on behalf of the organization and serve as ambassadors of Amazon’s DEI efforts with external and internal DEI related partners.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA; New, York, NY; Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; Atlanta, GA