About the job
Are you passionate about leveraging GenAI and advanced AWS technologies to simplify builder experience and accelerate innovations at AWS scale? We are building a new organization, AWS Builder Acceleration (AWSBA), focused on reducing toil and increasing building efficiency across AWS builders. Our mission is to accelerate AWS builder teams’ innovation by eliminating friction throughout the software development and operational lifecycle. Through AI based automated solutions and centralized service management, we address fundamental challenges including Keep The Light On (KTLO) service maintenance burden, launch readiness complexities, and recurring operational load. Through continuous collaboration with builder teams to identify emerging challenges, we shape our strategic roadmap to reinvent the development and operational ecosystem.
We are seeking an experienced principal TPM to lead AWSBA org to simplify and accelerate the software development experience for 20,000+ AWS engineers. You will shape AWS builder experience from the ground up with a singular mission: make software development, deployment and maintenance simpler across AWS. Success requires building services and tools that reduce friction, listening closely to what your internal customers tell you gets in the way of building, influencing the Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) roadmap, and driving transformation for engineering teams. You will harness advanced technologies, including AI-powered tooling, agentic workflows, and innovative AWS solutions, to create next-generation software builder experience at AWS scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead new AWSBA initiatives dedicated to improving AWS developer experience
- Identify and prioritize high-impact problems that impede AWS software development
- Collaborate with engineering team to decompose complex builder problems into simple, straight-forward and scalable solutions.
- Develop a roadmap that delivers meaningful improvements weekly while working toward long-term transformation
- Establish team culture and set new standards for the ideal software builder experience
- Partner closely with ASBX while focusing on AWS specific challenges
- Make and defend decisions about scope and priorities, even when facing pressure from senior stakeholders
Qualifications
Minimum
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Deep hands-on experience building software at AWS
- Experience with software tooling and services supporting development lifecycle at scale
- Ability to work with senior leaders across organizations to develop and champion long-term technical strategy
- Experience building large-scale AI solutions