DESCRIPTION

Do you want to be part of an innovative and rapidly growing business? Are you looking for a role with ownership, autonomy, and the ability to lead teams across the globe to launch AI/ML enterprise applications?

Then you should join the AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) Sales Planning Tools team. We provide the services, technology, and data to support the rapidly growing world-wide AWS Sales organization. This includes finding inventive ways to scale the business, which will be critical for AWS to continue its strong growth. Our team manages a portfolio of complex, high-impact, and intelligent planning tools, with an exciting multi-year product roadmap. These are global, enterprise grade web applications that are early and mid-stage in their lifecycle, and include both 1P and 3P products.

Our team is seeking a talented, innovative Sr. Product Manager with exceptional invent and simplify skillset, problem solving abilities, clear communication skills, think big mindset, and the ability to translate customers and business needs into inventive software solutions.

You will own the end to end development of a global, enterprise grade web-based sales planning application that is in its early stage and stands to deliver transformational value across the worldwide AWS Sales organization. You will work with a dedicated engineering team; our product team works with a 50 person, and growing, engineering team. You will define the product’s 2-3 year vision and strategy, including the delivery of automation and intelligent recommendations to drive a more efficient and effective Go-to-market sales plan for AWS. You will be responsible for roadmap development, product requirements management, stakeholder and customer engagement, leadership reviews, user testing, and launch strategy and execution. You will partner with engineering, global sales customers, a data science team, and other application owners across the SMGS organization.

Key job responsibilities
– Develop product strategy and product definition.
– Define and manage multi-year product roadmap, including introduction of Gen AI and ML to transform AWS planning.
– Capture, document, and communicate business and product requirements.
– Translate requirements into features and user stories. Drive technical team understanding of requirements.
– Manage technical build against business requirements. Provide thought leadership with engineering on implementation.
– Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders from Global AWS Sales and Sales Operations teams and other System and Application teams across WWRO.
– Lead document development for leadership reviews.
– Own project status updates to customers, stakeholders, and leadership.
– Plan and conduct user testing (UAT).
– Drive change management and adoption of solution across AWS Sales and Sales Operations
– Manage post-launch activities (user support, new feature development, etc.)
– Establish KPIs, identify gaps, and improve performance and adoption of the platform.
– Deep dive problems or opportunity areas and propose solutions to address.
– Generate new ideas to drive improvement, efficiency and automation across AWS Sales that will enable AWS to scale and grow.

A day in the life
– Design new products and capabilities that enable business users to operate more effectively, intelligently, and efficiently.
– Engage with systems that are at the cutting edge of technology, pioneering new methods and approaches to serving customers and enabling large, distributed, worldwide sales teams.
– Work closely with engineering and other product/program managers to define, build, drive and measure product solutions and mechanisms to enable AWS field sales teams.
– Leverage strong communication skills and a passion for using data and software to drive business decisions at scale.

About the team
We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Beyond a strong technical background and proven track record of product management, a successful candidate will have experience driving strategy and influencing executive leadership. We are looking for someone that is a self-starter, someone that approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity, and a person that dives below the surface to identify the root cause and “so what” rather than just superficial trends.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

About Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
– Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
– Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
– Experience with end to end product delivery
– Experience owning technology products

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Master’s degree or equivalent
– Experience with developing products and features for the sales and marketing space
– Experience in a startup or enterprise software environment
– Comfort with ambiguity; demonstrated track record of independently developing creative solutions to problems
– Demonstrated ability to successfully influence and drive stakeholders to decision without formal authority

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $124,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $206,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, WA, Seattle