Location: Herndon,VA, USA
Description
Interested in helping Americas leaders implement the latest cloud technology to protect our country? This is an exciting opportunity to use the latest cloud computing technologies to help U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a talented Technical Product Manager to be part of the Platform Engineering and Emerging Tech (PEET) ADC team responsible for driving U.S. Government customer adoption and utilization of AWS cloud services in U.S. GovCloud and isolated regions (Amazon Dedicated Cloud). The candidate will facilitate use case exploration and knowledge sharing sessions between customer representatives and commercial product owners, evangelize the benefits of using PEET services, drive the integration of PEET services into government bids and proposals, provide training materials, and engage business development and capture teams on opportunities.
The Technical Product Manager will increase the knowledge of our service portfolio among our customer-facing partners (Sales, Technical Account Managers, Solution Architects, and ProServe engineers), align services to customer needs, determine gaps in existing solutions, and expedite key functionality creation with development teams. You will be joining a fast paced growing organization with a passion for supporting our government customers missions.
We hold high standards for our computer systems and the services we deliver to our customers: our systems are highly secure, highly reliable, highly available, all while functioning at massive scale; our employees are smart, passionate about the cloud, driven to serve customers, and fun to work with. Come help us build a state-of-the-art system!
A successful candidate will be a hands-on product manager with an established background in defining platforms and services through the full product lifecycle, working closely with extraordinary engineering talent, have strong technical ability, with great communication skills, and the motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.
This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Developing and delivering compelling presentations, demos, sample solutions, blogs, and other content and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of MAS2 cloud services at AWS
- Identify avenues for potential partnerships and customer opportunities.
- Collaborating with internal teams to define the product roadmaps, market positioning, community user groups, and other program initiatives.
- Working closely with the product managers, developers, and engineering, and operations personnel to ensure our products and services the needs of the government community.
- Demonstrate the viability of each solution through mechanisms like proof-of-concepts and/or prototypes.
- Craft and develop compelling audience-specific messages and tools (product videos, customer success stories, advanced demos, white papers, presentations, how to guides etc.), training, and related content.
- Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support providing updates on customer progress and ensuring execution by partners.
About the team
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, youll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its 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.
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, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
- 3+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- 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)
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
Preferred Qualifications
- 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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