Sr. Product Manager Technical, External Services, Amazon Linux (Amazon EC2)

Job description

Amazon is seeking to hire a product manager for Amazon Linux. As a Senior PMT for External Services at AWS, you will own the roadmap for Amazon's flagship operating system.

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is looking for a dynamic and seasoned product leader to help define and build the future of cloud computing. Customers around the world rely on Amazon EC2 to provide elastic, high performance, secure, and cost effective resources to scale their infrastructure to keep up with their changing business needs. Within EC2, you will work on the team that delivers the Amazon Linux operating system.

As a member of the EC2 Product Management team, you will join other highly respected product and engineering leaders to create the future of the computing platform.

We are looking for a Product manager who will own and drive the strategy and roadmap for Amazon Linux, the Linux distribution which powers AWS services and is the most popular operating system used by customers to run their workloads on AWS.

You will have strong ownership over portfolio strategy, product definition, feature prioritization, messaging, pricing (if applicable), adoption, customer interaction, and customer enablement. This is a high visibility and high impact role that will interact with all levels of AWS leadership.

The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity cloud computing represents and is deeply passionate about working with great teams that deliver the highest quality services. You are customer-centric and thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and business judgment, and solid communication skills.

Key job responsibilities

- Lead the definition and execution of the product strategy for Amazon Linux.

- Define and gather the necessary inputs to make high-quality product and roadmap decisions.

- Work with leaders across AWS, Amazon, and our partners to drive towards our vision.

- Define project requirements, priorities, methods for measurement and track their execution and success.

- Communicate with senior management on project status, strategy, risks, and issues.

- Work closely with multiple engineering teams to deliver results for customers.

A day in the life

- Talk to customers, understand customer pain points and feedback

- Write working backwards, strategy, and decision documents

- Build prototypes using generative AI tools, iterate quickly, fail fast

- Collaborate with engineering to deliver proven, high confidence features

- Respond to customer queries and issues

- Learn about new technologies in your area