The role
From Amazon's own posting.
Are you excited about the opportunity to join a diverse team working together to influence the direction of an innovative new cloud database? Does contributing to product engineering and business strategy for a new distributed database service match your career goals? If so, the role of Senior Product Manager in the Aurora Distributed SQL organization may be your dream job.
Key job responsibilities
Your primary responsibility as a Senior Product Manager – Technical (PMT) is to help accelerate the product engineering and business growth of Amazon Aurora DSQL. A Senior PMT achieves this growth by shaping and leading product strategy – turning insights and customer feedback into plans that accelerate delivery and delight customers. This includes taking ownership of roadmap prioritization, and contributing to feature development by acting as the voice of the customer throughout the software development lifecycle. You will collaborate directly with software engineering teams, and interact with senior business partners across marketing, finance, and sales organizations.
A day in the life
A successful candidate will demonstrate proven product management skills with experience delivering features for large scale enterprise information systems. The candidate will be comfortable managing competing priorities and be able to bring clarity and order to ambiguous scenarios. The candidate will demonstrate subject matter expertise in database technology and is familiar with related storage and server hardware. Exemplary written and verbal communication skills are important, as the candidate will frequently work with leadership and colleagues that cross organizational boundaries.
- 5+ years of technical product management with internet business experience
- 3+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- Experience in taking a product from conception & definition phase through engineering design and taking it to market
- 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)
- 3+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience, or degree in advanced technology
- 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
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 152,200.00 - 205,900.00 USD annually