The role
From Amazon's own posting.
As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
Amazon Connect is an AI-powered customer experience solution that enables superior outcomes at a lower cost. Since its 2017 public launch, Amazon Connect has become an AI leader, transforming how organizations of all types interact with their customers.
We have a rapidly growing customer base and an exciting charter in front of us that includes solving highly complex engineering and algorithmic problems while designing beautiful, simple user experiences. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and experienced Senior Product Manager - Technical, External Services to join us to lead the strategy and roadmap for communication channels in Amazon Connect. The position is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing business and help shape the technology and product as we grow. You will play a crucial role in developing the next generation of AWS application services and have the opportunity to design and deliver high-scale, resilient systems while maintaining a constant customer focus. This team is a great fit for you if:
1. You enjoy working with a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that are working together towards a common goal.
2. You are sensitive to customer needs and interested in working on a service that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their functions and interactions.
3. You'd like to be directly responsible for solving real customer problems.
4. You are a passionate learner and are motivated to take on new challenges.
5. You want to have fun, surround yourself with a highly talented team that likes to solve complex problems, but also enjoys work-life balance.
Key job responsibilities
Own the product roadmap and end-to-end delivery for specific RTC features and capabilities (e.g., turnkey RTC apps like voicemail, co-browse, screen recording; or agentic foundations like unified TTS, bidirectional streaming, or multilingual analytics)
Define product strategy and pricing for your owned area, writing clear BRDs/PRDs with well-defined customer use cases, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that engineering teams can execute against
Work backwards from customer needs — analyze support tickets, customer escalations, usage data, and direct customer feedback to identify the highest-impact feature gaps and prioritize accordingly
Partner deeply with engineering to understand technical constraints, make informed trade-offs between scope, quality, and speed, and ensure on-time delivery of high-quality features at scale
Drive feature launches end-to-end — from requirements through design, development, testing, and GA launch — including writing launch announcements and enabling GTM teams
Coordinate cross-team dependencies with partner teams across Amazon Connect (e.g., Contact Management, Flows, Contact Lens, Telecom) to ensure seamless integration of RTC capabilities
Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand migration blockers, validate product direction, and close feature gaps that unblock adoption and revenue growth
Define and monitor success metrics, conduct post-launch analysis, and iterate rapidly to improve feature adoption and customer satisfaction
Contribute to the team's strategic planning processes (OP1/OP2) with data-driven proposals for new investments and resource allocation
About the team
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- 5+ years of technical product management with internet business experience
- 5+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
- 3+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- 7+ years of full product life cycle experience
- 5+ years of P&L management and pricing experience
- 5+ years of creating written docs for development of new products experience
- 5+ years of enterprise security product experience
- 5+ years of product management in the cloud computing technology space experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, finance, or economics
- 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)
- 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