Principal Product Manager - Technical, External Services, Amazon Aurora

About the role

This role will focus on defining seamless user experiences across Aurora, which involves improving the getting started experience, query execution experience, building new experiences that better utilize generative AI, etc. In this position, you will play a pivotal role defining product requirements and tirelessly champion the needs of our customers. 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. The successful candidate must have exceptional problem solving skills, strong business judgment, and demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams. We are looking for a proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically, and someone who is excited to take on new, ambiguous projects that will be industry defining. This position requires a solid technical background, and the candidate should be customer-focused with a passion for the cloud and information technology. Given this role focuses on bringing existing workloads to Aurora, we welcome candidates with past experience in databases.

Key job responsibilities

• Creating the product strategy for the new service that appeals to unique needs and requirements of Enterprise customers
• Managing the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution
• Launching the vision, product strategy and road map for our products and working with key stakeholders in the company to deliver on that vision, e.g. sales, partner team, international site leaders, etc.
• Defining product requirements documents based on an intimate knowledge of the specific market segments, target customers, and product
• Responsible for the go-to-market plan and enablement, working to insure that sales, SAs, Pro Serve, and the partner teams have what they need to be successful
• Driving sales by enabling business development and sales teams, leading calls with key customers, creating tools to support the success, helping to identify opportunities to increase that success
• Establishing goals and reviewing metrics to identify opportunities and deliver success
• Research and identify new opportunities for AWS to innovate on behalf of our customers

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
• 5+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
• 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

• Experience with database, data warehouse or data lake solutions
• 4+ years of professional or military experience, or MBA
• Experience working in an external client-facing environment