Sr. Product Manager, AWS Kubernetes

Containers are redefining how customers build deploy and run applications. Increasingly they need those capabilities beyond the cloud. The Amazon Container Services team is looking for a Senior Product Manager (Technical) to define the future of Kubernetes across cloud on-premises and edge environments.

You will own product strategy and development for EKSs hybrid offerings: EKS Hybrid Nodes EKS Anywhere and our growing partner ecosystem. That means everything from vision and feature definition through prioritization positioning and GTM/adoption.

We want someone who has solved customer problems at the intersection of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. You should have a track record of working backwards from ambiguous enterprise needs and turning them into products that customers love whether those customers run workloads in data centers at the edge or across hybrid environments.

Working closely with engineering teams you will see the direct impact of your work on customers operating Kubernetes in constrained environments: air-gapped networks compliance-driven deployments bare-metal infrastructure and latency-sensitive workloads. This is a high-visibility role that interacts with all levels of AWS leadership.

Our ideal candidate brings deep familiarity with on-premises infrastructure enterprise IT or hybrid cloud platforms. You understand how organizations operate Kubernetes outside of public cloud: the operational pain the partner ecosystem and the enterprise buying motion. You thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and business judgment.

You will define product requirements and go-to-market strategy for customers running containers in hybrid environments. The role requires coordination across engineering sales partners and solutions architecture as well as external ecosystem partners. Youll work with enterprise customers hardware/infrastructure partners and software vendors to prioritize roadmap features and define new capabilities.

Key job responsibilities
- Own product strategy roadmap and feature definition for EKS hybrid and on-premises offerings (EKS Hybrid Nodes EKS Anywhere partner integrations)

- Work backwards from enterprise customer needs to define product requirements for hybrid Kubernetes deployments across data centers edge and air-gapped environments

- Lead customer engagements (enterprise accounts ISVs infrastructure partners) to collect requirements and validate product direction

- Partner with engineering to prioritize and deliver features across the full product lifecycle from concept through launch and adoption

- Build and execute go-to-market plans in coordination with sales solutions architecture partner teams and developer advocacy

- Define and track success metrics for hybrid adoption partner ecosystem growth and customer outcomes

- Write narratives (PR/FAQs strategy docs business reviews) to drive alignment and secure investment from leadership

- Represent EKS hybrid products externally at customer meetings industry events and partner forums

- Coordinate across AWS container services (ECS ECR Fargate) and adjacent teams (Outposts Local Zones networking) to deliver integrated hybrid experiences

- Monitor competitive landscape and translate competitive intelligence into product differentiation

A day in the life
You start your week talking to customers who run production workloads on Kubernetes. You dig into whats working and whats not then turn that into product requirements. You whiteboard with engineering and UX to iterate on solutions. You define the long-term roadmap present strategy to leadership and track business metrics to spot opportunities. Some days youre reviewing cross-team documents or mentoring peers. Other days youre on stage at a conference. You own the product end to end.

About the team
The EKS team builds the managed Kubernetes service used by thousands of customers from startups to the worlds largest enterprises. We help customers run containerized applications reliably at any scale. Youll work with product managers engineers and designers who ship fast and talk to customers constantly. We value ownership clear writing and learning from each other. We support flexible work arrangements that balance team needs with your life outside of work.

- 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
- Bachelors 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 Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 152200.00 - 205900.00 USD annually