Principal Product Manager Technical - External Services, Amazon RDS

Were looking for an accomplished product manager to play a significant role on the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) team.

Amazon RDS powers some of the most important companies on Earth. We provide a simpletouse and reliable relational database provisioning and management service on top of Oracle SQL Server Db2 PostgreSQL MySQL and MariaDB database engines.

Our goal is to be the best DBA a customer can find providing the most robust database technology in the world enabling companies to accelerate their growth and maintain as many 9s of reliability and uptime as they need on their most crucial systems. Customers across industries use RDS in multitude of ways for experimentation to missioncritical enterprise workloads.

We run the largest database fleet in the world and we work hard to deliver features security durability availability performance and scalability to our customers every day. Amazon RDS is one of the largest and fastestgrowing businesses on AWS.

We are looking for an experienced product manager to lead exciting new initiatives as well as to shape our portfolio of commercial engines (Oracle SQL Server and Db2). We need someone with the talent and experience to help us define and launch new initiatives and to handle the technical strategic and gotomarket challenges of building and growing the largest managed database service in the cloud. You will set the product vision and customer value proposition define the product roadmap establish product requirements and drive product features to a successful launch and growth.

Successful candidate must have exceptional problemsolving skills strong business judgment and demonstrated experience leading crossfunctional teams. We are looking for someone with proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically. This position requires a solid technical background. The candidate should be customerfocused with a passion for distributed systems and the cloud. Past experience in databases is a plus.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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.

Key job responsibilities
Define the mission and vision for the commercial engines business within Amazon RDS
Own and prioritize the product roadmap by gaining buy in from key stakeholders such as service leadership engineering and gotomarket teams
Establish and oversee robust rhythms of business for driving growth and visibility
Engage with various crossfunctional stakeholders to define and execute effective gotomarket strategies
Foster strong relationships with large strategic customers
Evangelize services new capabilities among field teams and customers
Demonstrate effective stewardship of the business P&L and drive efficiencies

About the team
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledgesharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Diverse Experiences
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About AWS
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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7 years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
7 years of technical (software development network development IT other related) experience
Experience delivering largescale SaaS PaaS or LaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle from concept through GTM (go to market)

Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience working within teams delivering software products and features using agile methodologies
MBA or Masters in a relevant field

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $163000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $281800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.