Senior Product Manager - Technical - AWS Apps

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Austin
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

It's truly Day 1 for our team in AWS. This is your opportunity to be a founding engineer on a new team that's building a suite of AWS Apps and Services to tackle a huge new problem space. You'll be an integral part of building services that leverage cutting edge AWS technologies like SageMaker, Forecast, Athena, QuickSight, Glue, and more.As an early member of this team, you'll wear many hats. You'll help design the overall architecture, you'll own large chunks of design and development work for various components, and you'll establish the technology processes and practices that will lay the groundwork for the organization as it grows.

Although what we're building is still confidential, as a software developer you can expect to:

• Deal with ambiguity in solving a complex problem space that has not been tackled at this scale before.
• Work with other engineering teams who are aligned towards the same goal with many opportunities for cross-team influence, architecture, and collaboration.
• Build a customer facing product from the ground up and deliver it to market quickly.
• Be a key contributor in setting the teams technical direction, best practices, and plan for the years ahead
• Front-end and full stack engineers will work closely with Product, UX, and Engineering teams to define the end product and customer experience and then implement it with best of breed web technologies and AWS services.
• Back-end engineers will build the core backbone infrastructure and platform of services leveraging key AWS capabilities and cutting edge ML, AI, and analytics models.

This team is a great fit for you if

• You enjoy working with a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that are working together towards a common goal.
• You are sensitive to customer needs and interested in working on a service that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their functions and interactions.
• You'd like to be directly responsible for solving real customer problems.
• You are a passionate learner and are motivated to take on new challenges.
• You want to have fun; surround yourself with a highly talented pool of engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also enjoy work life balance.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee -led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

What you will do here

We are looking for a seasoned technical product manager to own the product strategy, development, launch, and ongoing execution for new applications. In this position, you will play a pivotal role defining product requirements, setting the go-to-market strategy, and tirelessly championing the needs of our customers. Given the breadth of these new applications, this role will require coordination across many internal and external teams and will be visible at the highest levels of the company. You'll work with our customers, partners, software vendors, and operational stakeholders to prioritize roadmap features, and spearhead the definition of new capabilities through expertly crafted business requirements documents.

• 7+ years of product management experience, ideally with SaaS applications
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or related technical field
• Strong track record of launching products and ensuring customer success
• Demonstrated experience in go-to-market, inclusive of pricing and packaging of solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Ability to dissect complicated problems, simplify experiences and innovate on behalf of our customers
• An entrepreneurial spirit and be able to work independently and effectively in a results-oriented environment
• Demonstrated history of successfully bringing novel products to market, such as those that integrate new technology, branch into new market segments, or start new categories
• Demonstrated ability to champion the voice of other stakeholders in your products
• Strong team-orientation with proven track record of taking ownership and delivering results
• Experience with developing strategic business partnerships
• MBA
• AWS Certified

This role can be located in Arlington, VA, Austin, TX, Vancouver, Canada, or Seattle, Washington.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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