Additional Information
The way the world consumes media is changing rapidly - richer experiences for live streamed sports, snappy short reels, interactive gaming, and responsive communications with humans or AI are table stakes. Do you want to define the next generation of media delivery capabilities that powers engaging media experiences for global audiences? Are you equal parts a forward thinker and a problem solver?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our CloudFront team based in Seattle, WA. We are the product team behind the Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator services that provide massive scale, security and performance to the world's largest media content providers, gaming studios, and social applications.
We're looking for a Principal Product Manager that's passionate about solving customer problems and has demonstrated success in turning ambiguous customer needs into successful products. In this role, you will help develop media delivery for customer - implementing state of the art internet protocols, helping develop specialized infrastructure, and defining cutting edge security products that work across human and AI traffic. If you are excited by building deeply technical products that bring the most loved media experiences to life, enjoy working in a collaborative, analytical, and fast-paced environment, and are comfortable interacting with highly technical cross-functional teams, we want to talk to you!
As the Principal Product Manager for Media delivery, you will own all aspects of your portfolio including strategy, feature roadmap, user experience, pricing, and growth for different customer segments. You will work across engineering, business development, and marketing leads to set strategy, define the product, and make difficult, high-judgment trade-offs between features and time-to-market. You will partner with the technical leaders of the organization to ensure the programming model, scalability and reliability promises, and developer experience delight our customers. As one of the team leaders, you will play a key role in hiring additional team members, and help set the vision, values, and culture of this business. This is a highly visible position that will interact at all levels of the AWS business.
Key job responsibilities
- Understand technology and user trends in Media to identify forward looking strategies to drive business growth
- Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and learn what we can build to enable and delight our customers
- Evaluate industry innovations and technology platforms and identify partnership and collaboration opportunities
- Work collaboratively across organizations as an advocate for the customer needs
- Author documents relating to product life cycle including product roadmap, business requirements, and functional specifications
- Prototype new features and experiences
- Drive product development across teams (primarily Engineering, Operations, Product Management, Business Development, and Marketing) through business requirements, design, implementation, and deployment
- Define pricing, positioning, and go-to-market strategies to drive product growth.
A day in the life
What does it take to succeed in this role? Passion to make media experiences high quality at a massive scale. Excitement to understand how media consumption is changing, understanding of the scale and security challenges that brings for media customers, and a strategic view towards how AWS can uniquely solve those problems. Finally, the love to build well crafted products for the customers - including technology, developer (incl agentic) experiences, pricing, and clear positioning.