VP, AWS Cloud Platform Product Strategy

State Street

Quincy (MA)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 217,500

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive insurance coverage

Paid time off and family care

Job summary

State Street seeks a senior product leader for its AWS Cloud Platform Engineering within the Cloud Platforms organization. You will own the long-term product vision and multi-year roadmap for the AWS cloud platform, partnering with platform engineering to drive a product-centric operating model while balancing security, compliance, and delivery.

This is a senior, strategic role reporting to the Head of AWS Cloud Platform.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience.
15+ years IT industry experience with at least 5+ years in a product management role, preferably leading an IT platform or cloud product.
Good working knowledge of any cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.) and foundational constructs around Compute, Networking, Security and Storage.
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks like GDPR, DORA and standards such as NIST 800-53, CSA CCM 4.0, and related controls.
Proven experience using Agile methodologies.

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 with incremental, well-sequenced changes that maintain delivery stability.
Build strong partnerships with platform engineering to co-create the product operating model and ensure adoption.
Demonstrate patience and pragmatism balancing transformation goals with organizational maturity.
Enable teams to adopt product practices, including roadmaps, backlogs, and customer feedback loops.
Establish structured engagement mechanisms (e.g., developer forums, feedback loops, usage insights) to refine priorities.
Act as executive-level voice of the customer for platform consumers across engineering, security, risk, and finance.
Set platform 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 leaders to align platform investments to business outcomes.
Establish platform success metrics and report outcomes to executive technology leadership.
Ensure security, compliance, and operational resilience are embedded as default capabilities across the platform.