AWS Cloud Product Manager, Vice President

State Street•Quincy, MA

About The Position

We are seeking a senior product leader for AWS Cloud Platform Engineering within State Street’s broader Cloud Platforms organization. As a core component of our Technology Platform Engineering and Operations (TPEO) function, this role will report directly to the Head of AWS Cloud platform. Our cloud platforms serve as the backbone for business innovation, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient digital capabilities across the firm. The successful candidate will partner closely with senior leadership to shape strategic plans and product roadmap in support of our business strategy. The AWS Cloud Platform Product Manager leads the vision and strategy for State Street’s enterprise AWS cloud platform in alignment with the firm’s hybrid multi-cloud strategy, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable delivery across the firm. This role leads the evolution toward a product-centric operating model in a thoughtful, patient, and collaborative manner—partnering closely with platform engineering team to embed product thinking, enhance developer and client experience, drive shared ownership without disrupting ongoing delivery commitments.

Requirements

Strong Product management experience owning platform products
Proven experience leading platform as a product transformation with preferred expertise in Cloud platforms
Customer obsession
Demonstrated ability to lead gradual, large-scale operating model transformations
Pragmatic and patient approach to change management
Strong influencing skills in complex, federated organizations
Demonstrated ability to deliver in regulated financial environments and working with global regulatory bodies like FRB, FCA, PRA, MAS etc around cloud controls and compliance
Proven ability to operate at executive level, influencing strategy across engineering, security, risk, and finance organizations
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience
15+ years overall IT industry experience with at least 5+ years in a product management role with a IT platform preferably Cloud in a highly regulated financial services institution with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role
Good working knowledge of any cloud – AWS, AWS, GCP etc .
Well versed with foundational constructs around Compute, Networking, Security and Storage
Good working knowledge of NIST 800-53, Cloud Security Alliance(CSA) Cloud control matrix (CCM 4.0), NIST CyberSecurity framework and knowledge of regulatory frameworks like GDPR, DORA etc
Proven experience using Agile methodologies.

Nice To Haves

expertise in Cloud platforms

Responsibilities

Define and own the long-term product vision and multi-year roadmap for the AWS cloud platform
Lead the evolution toward a product-centric model through incremental, well-sequenced changes that maintain delivery stability
Build strong, trust-based partnerships with platform engineering teams to co-create the product operating model
Demonstrate patience and pragmatism in balancing transformation goals with current organizational maturity
Enable teams to adopt product practices at a sustainable pace, including roadmaps, backlogs, and customer feedback loops
Establish structured engagement mechanisms (e.g., developer forums, feedback loops, usage insights) to continuously refine platform priorities
Act as executive-level voice of the customer for AWS platform consumers across Application, SRE, Infra, security and other cross functional teams
Set platform product strategy for AWS platform capabilities, account vending, networking, IAM, security guardrails, observability, automation, and service enablement
Drive prioritization decisions balancing enterprise risk, resilience, cost, and developer velocity
Partner with senior engineering, architecture, security, risk, and finance leaders to align platform investments to business outcomes
Establish platform success metrics and regularly report outcomes to executive technology leadership
Ensure security, compliance, and operational resilience are embedded as default capabilities across the AWS platform
Influence enterprise cloud standards, operating models, and governance forums as the AWS platform product leader

Benefits

our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
access to our Employee Assistance Program
incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks