Principal Product Manager - Tech, AWS Economic Development

Description

Come build a future with the AWS Economic Development Research & Analysis team. Every year, AWS invests billions of dollars around the world in the newest cloud computing tools, data center infrastructure, and education for cloud-skilled professions. These investments transform local economies — and today, we capture that transformation through robust regional statistics. Now, we're going further: complementing those insights with hyper-local, rigorous, human-centered intelligence that answers the questions residents, educators, small business owners, and local leaders care about most. We're looking for a Principal Product Manager – Technical to build our Hyper-Local Intelligence Product Suite from scratch — a new class of products that combine rigorous econometric research with human interest storytelling, while scaling our core research products.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Hyper-Local Intelligence product suite — a new product line built from scratch, while scaling our core research offerings
• Translate complex economic research into scalable product experiences — design the frameworks, data models, and delivery mechanisms that turn bespoke analyses into repeatable, automated products
• Combine econometric research with human interest storytelling
• Define and instrument success metrics — establish product and business KPIs to measure adoption, impact, stakeholder satisfaction, and operational efficiency
• Drive cross-functional alignment — work across economists, public policy, public relations, infrastructure planning, and finance teams to ensure the product suite serves both internal and external stakeholders
• Engage directly with community-level stakeholders — conduct discovery research, validate product-market fit, and iterate based on feedback from local officials, community organizations, and field teams
• Present to senior leadership

About The Team

As AWS's strategic economic storytellers, the AWS Economic Development Research & Analysis team crafts global, data-driven narratives spanning three strategic categories: Core Research – Economic Impact Studies measuring GDP and job contributions. Fiscal Impact Analyses quantifying tax revenues. Labor Demand Analyses enabling workforce partnerships Specialized Research – Energy, water, fiber, and other infrastructure-adjacent areas Hyper-Local Intelligence – Granular socioeconomic analyses enabling community-level storytelling

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience technical product management
• Experience with AI/ML technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Experience designing and launching new products from the ground up
• Track record of building products that combine quantitative rigor with compelling narrative or storytelling