Senior Product Manager - Technical, Amazon Keyspaces

Are you looking for an opportunity to have broad ownership and to work on a team focused on helping customers solve some of their biggest data challenges? Do you enjoy diving deep on customer use cases and working backwards from the customer to create new products, features, and services? Are you data-driven and are you excited by breaking down complex business and technical problems to find innovative solutions to help customers?

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

If so, the Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) team is looking for a Senior Product Manager – Technical (PMT) to join our team. Amazon Keyspaces is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses such as Monzo, Intuit, PwC, and Experian depend on the scale and performance of Keyspaces to support some of the world’s most demanding applications. Learn more about Keyspaces' customer stories here - https://aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/customers/

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a technical product manager to help us accelerate the growth of the Keyspaces business. The primary responsibility of the Senior Product Manager - Technical (Senior PMT-ES) role is to own and drive key areas of the product. As a Senior Product Manager, you achieve this by defining the product strategy, roadmap, and pricing for a core set of capabilities. You also work with stakeholders to achieve the best outcomes for customer experience, adoption, and operational excellence. To be successful in this role, you should have meaningful product management experience leading products or features and a technical background (preferably in databases). Experience delivering large-scale SaaS, PaaS or IaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle, from concept through GTM.
Lastly, you should be driven by data, be able to communicate crisply in writing and verbally to customers, across organizations, and up to senior leadership.

About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of technical product management with internet business experience
- 3+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- 5+ years of creating written docs for development of new products experience
- 5+ years of enterprise security product experience
- 5+ years of product management in the cloud computing technology space experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, finance, or economics
- Experience in taking a product from conception & definition phase through engineering design and taking it to market
- Experience delivering large-scale SaaS, PaaS or LaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle, from concept through GTM (go to market)

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience working within teams delivering software products and features using agile methodologies
- 7+ years of full product life cycle experience
- 5+ years of P&L management and pricing experience

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 152,200.00 - 205,900.00 USD annually