Principal PMT- ES, AWS Security Services (S2)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Product Manager for AWS Security Services to drive the product vision and strategy. In this role, you will define a 3-5 year strategy, collaborate across teams, and lead customer-focused innovations to solve security challenges.

The ideal candidate should have a solid technical background and experience shaping product roadmaps, driving strategic initiatives, and interacting with senior executives and enterprise customers. This position offers significant visibility within the company.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically.
• Strong business judgment and exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy for AWS Security Services.
• Lead technical discussions with enterprise customers.
• Collaborate with engineering, sales, and marketing teams.

Skills

Product management experience

Problem-solving skills

Technical background in security or cloud

Customer focus

Education

Experience in product management

Tools

Business requirements documentation

Job description

AWS Security Services is redefining how enterprises are protecting their cloud-based applications and services. We are innovating in cloud security with services like Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Security Hub, Amazon Inspector, and Amazon Security Lake. Our team is growing, and we need an experienced senior product manager to join the team and own innovative new products to help customers protect workloads and services on AWS. If you love building security products that protect some of the world’s most critical cloud infrastructures and applications at massive scale this the role for you.

As the Principal Product Manager, you will be a member of the Leadership Team helping advise and deliver the overall AWS Security Services product strategy and vision. In this capacity, you will work hand-in-hand with Engineering, Product leaders across all our charters – helping the teams move faster, innovate bigger, and drive greater impact to our customers. You will drive success through feature definition, roadmap prioritization, positioning, naming, GTM, usage growth, and financial metrics. Operationally, you will solve customer problems, improve delivery speed, and drive usage by working backwards from ambiguous customer needs, translating them into disruptive, successful products that delight customers. This role will require interacting with customers (including senior executives) on a regular basis, and coordination across many internal and external teams. 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 product management experience influencing both technical and non-technical internal and external stakeholders. 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 both a solid technical background and proven results with customer-facing delivery of either security, cloud, or AI products.

Key job responsibilities

As the Principal Product Manager- Tech for external customer-facing AWS Security Services, you will be the owner defining strategy/product vision through feature definition, roadmap prioritization, positioning, naming, GTM/adoption, and financial metrics. We are looking for an experienced product leader who is passionate about solving customer problems, and who has demonstrated success working backwards from ambiguous customer needs, translating them into disruptive, successful products that delight customers. In this position, you will play a pivotal role defining the product requirements and go-to-market strategy for AWS Security Services and the needs of our customers. This role will require interacting with customers (including senior executives) on a daily basis, coordination across many internal and external teams and will be visible at the highest levels of the company. 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 influencing both internally and externally. 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 security and cloud technology.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Shape 3-5 year strategic vision and technical roadmaps for AWS Security Services
• Review complex service design decisions across distributed systems and security architectures
• Drive technical innovation in security services
• Identify service dependencies and efficiency improvements across the AWS ecosystem
• Own business and product definition for major AWS service products

Customer & Market Focus

• Lead technical discussions with enterprise customers and participate in customer advisory boards
• Analyze competitive landscape and identify market opportunities in security
• Translate customer pain points into technical product requirements and solutions
• Represent AWS at industry conferences and technical events

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Drive team execution of strategic initiatives across multiple engineering organizations
• Collaborate with engineering, sales, marketing, and business development teams
• Mentor and develop product management skills in team members
• Take ownership of product reliability issues and drive resolution