Senior Sustainability Specialist, AWS Global Sustainability
Amazon· AWS Global Sustainability
Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (Arlington, VA)$139.5k - $188.7kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior-level role focused on integrating carbon considerations into AWS infrastructure planning and operations, with responsibility for developing carbon accounting methodologies, maturing the AWS GHG inventory, and enabling data-driven decarbonization across data centers and related programs.
Responsibilities
- Partner with infrastructure planning, real estate, energy, and data center design/engineering teams to integrate carbon considerations into siting, design, and development decisions.
- Develop, document, and operationalize new and improved carbon accounting methodologies for both operational and embodied emissions across the AWS infrastructure lifecycle.
- Own and mature the AWS GHG inventory — improving data quality, calculation methods, emission factors, and Scope 1, 2, and 3 boundary definitions — and ensure alignment with evolving reporting standards.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert on carbon accounting and GHG inventory methodology within the group and across partner teams.
- Measure the carbon impact of current and future infrastructure and sustainability programs, and effectively communicate results to key decision-makers and leaders.
- Responsible for program delivery, developing metrics, internal and audit-ready reporting, and managing data inputs from multiple teams.
- Bring a solutions-oriented mindset, offering creative, rigorous, and defensible approaches to measurement challenges.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Environmental Science, Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical), Data/Statistics, or other Sustainability-related field, or 6+ years of additional field-specific work experience
- 5+ years of experience developing and executing environmental sustainability, carbon accounting, or GHG inventory programs in the private or public sector
- Fluency with AI/GenAI tools and a clear point of view on using them to automate low-value analytical work
- Experience obtaining, managing, and analyzing carbon and energy data
- Experience developing or applying carbon accounting methodologies (operational and/or embodied carbon)
- Experience leading programs involving multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience working across both technical and business functions
Skills
Required:GHG inventory managementCarbon accounting methodologiesData analysis and managementCross-functional program leadership
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP
- Mental Health Support
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
- Sign-on payments and RSUs as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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