Principal Product Manager - Tech, DynamoDB

Amazon•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Are you interested in helping guide the product strategy for Amazon DynamoDB? This is your opportunity to be an owner, builder, and an innovator for a distributed NoSQL database that hundreds of thousands of customers rely on daily. Together with a diverse team, you will work backwards from customer needs to define the future of DynamoDB. Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and consistently releases 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. The DynamoDB team’s mission is to serve the world’s most critical and demanding applications. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that delivers consistent performance at any scale. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses such as Disney+, Snap, Zoom, Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support some of the world’s most demanding applications. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers choose DynamoDB for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT, and other applications that need low-latency data access at any scale. The primary responsibility of the Principal Product Manager - Technical (Principal PMT-ES) role is to own and drive key areas of the product. As a Principal 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. Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. You can learn more about the hiring managers here: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcpinaud/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/janengelsberg/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephidziorek/ #DBSPM #AWSPM #DDBPM

Requirements

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)

Responsibilities

As a Principal Product Manager, you own key areas of focus (or a mission) aligned to helping customers being successful using DynamoDB. Examples include event-driven architectures, scalability/serverless, developer experience, data protection/security, price/performance, extensibility, global app development, and more.
You will own the strategy for your area of focus, work backwards from customer needs, and leverage data such as service telemetry, user feedback, and industry trends to author PRFAQs, pricing, and naming narratives.
As an owner, you will hold yourself and partners accountable for the highest quality customer outcomes. Launching a capability is only the start. After you launch, you are responsible for growing usage, iterating on customer feedback, and education.
You partner with engineering, legal, documentation, marketing, sales, solution architecture, finance, GTM specialists, and more to drive growth.
You provide clarity where there is ambiguity, you are a builder, and most importantly you are customer obsessed.

Benefits

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .

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