Principal Product Manager - Tech, AWS Economic Development
About the role
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. This is a 0-to-1 opportunity to define, build, and scale a product suite that delivers granular, community-level insights at global scale. You will be the founding product leader and will define the product vision, build the roadmap, and drive execution — owning the full lifecycle from research methodology design through scalable product delivery. Everything you build must scale through technology to transform what is currently a bespoke, manual research process into a repeatable, tech-enabled product that can serve hundreds of communities worldwide.
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
A day in the life
This role sits at the intersection of econometric rigor, product craft, and technical scalability. You must be equally comfortable debating methodologies with PhD economists, writing a product requirements document, and presenting a community impact story to a room of local stakeholders.
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
- Experience in building analytic or scientific data products or solutions
- Track record of building products that combine quantitative rigor with compelling narrative or storytelling
Pay
- USA, VA, Arlington - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, SEATTLE - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave