Sr. Manager, PMT - ES, AWS IaC

AWS Infrastructure as Code helps customers to easily and efficiently adopt AWS services while ensuring that their applications run safely in the cloud. We develop services, including CloudFormation, Cloud Control API, and the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that empower customers to spin up infrastructure across AWS at unprecedented scale.

Our vision is to make agent driven infrastructure management fast , reliable and safe. The org has two primary pillars - The IaC Core team develops and maintains the Control Plane and Asynchronous Workflow Engine that powers provisioning operations at scale. We design and deliver features that support large-scale traffic volume and deliver experiences that help customers deploy infrastructure safely. The IaC Provider Experience team provides the building blocks for customers to scale and grow their use of AWS services and third-party solutions. With the CloudFormation CLI and Resource Provider Development Kit (RPDK), we enable AWS service teams and third-party developers to build a standardized resource-based interface to their services and provide access to customers via the CloudFormation Registry. From there, we make it easy for developers to discover each resource's capabilities and build solutions to manage infrastructure at AWS scale.

We are looking for an experienced Product leader to lead a team of world class Product Managers that define and own the end-to-end vision and strategy for AWS IaC. A successful candidate will have strong passion for developers and experience in designing platform strategies. You have a background in software development and product management, specific to software platforms and ecosystems. You must be highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively across multiple organizations, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that developers and customers love.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive the product strategy and roadmap for AWS IaC, and manage prioritization and tradeoffs against developer experience, customer experience, and time to market.
- Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners.
- Establish business processes and policies as well as metrics and indicators for success.
- Measure and analyze existing products and business models for opportunities to innovate and improve, providing additional benefits to developers and customers.
- Drive product launches including working with public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
- Develop, report, and continually improve business performance metrics
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
- Recruit and develop top talent, creating clear growth paths and coaching Product Managers across multiple levels.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or the technology
- Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
- Is strongly oriented towards results
- Thinks big

About the team
AWS CloudFormation is the foundational Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service from AWS, enabling millions of customers to model, provision, and manage their cloud resources through templates. Our team owns the frontend public API layer, template and operation validations, deployment safety rules, and third-party (3P) hooks — the critical layers between the customer and the CloudFormation engine. We are the first line of defense for customer experience: catching errors early, enforcing deployment guardrails, and empowering customers to extend CloudFormation with custom validation and compliance logic. We are customer-obsessed builders who hold ourselves to the highest bar for availability, correctness, and security.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of people management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience in people management
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of successful technology products work from ideation through launch experience
- Experience in successful technology product work from ideation through launch
- Experience delivering technology products or services in a high growth environment
- Experience shaping business strategy for technical products or services for large enterprises or partners
- Experience with cloud native technologies

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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 - 199,200.00 - 269,500.00 USD annually