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Amazon Principal Product Manager - Tech, Vulnerability Management Solutions Engineering (VMSE) in Seattle, Washington
Description
Do you like diving deep with customers, and creating innovative solutions for their problems? Are you passionate about modeling value propositions, gain drivers, or pain relievers for customers? Would you prefer to work with global customers directly on a day-to-day basis? Does the idea of building product vision, and driving adoption of that vision across multiple organizations excite you? If so, this Principal Product Management - Technical (PMT) role is the one for you!
The Vulnerability Management Solutions Engineering (VMSE) organization is looking for a tenured Principal PMT to join our growing team of security engineers, software engineers, and scientists. This PMT will shape the future vision of our Incident Command/Response, Vulnerability Management, and security scanning capabilities for the longer term. They will work across two 50-person plus operations teams, two 50-person plus engineering organizations, and partner with over 5 security engineering organizations. They will developed a product strategy and roadmap for internal Tier-1 tools that improve Incident Response, vulnerability management, and host/container scanning solutions for Amazon. In addition to this, they will become a pioneer in A.I. based product development in the cyber security space; conceiving Think Big opportunities to change how security teams manage security findings at scale.
The vision for the PMT in this role is to define what we are calling the “security management control plane” - an operations console that enables Defensive Security teams to managed security findings across Amazon’s compute infrastructure. Successful PMT’s in this role will build strong relationships with partners that focus on the builder experience, as well as security teams across several Amazon Business Units.
Key job responsibilities
Maintaining high executive presence as part of vocal/written communications in Amazon Security business reviews.
Defining product vision, 3-year plans, and yearly strategy planning documents. These artifacts will articulate a solution/strategy for enabling Incident Command, Incident Response, Vulnerability Discovery, Vulnerability Assessment, and security team onboarding.
Partnering with executives to ensure high transparency on the visibility/security status of assets under the care of Defensive Security.
Working alongside peer Principal Software Engineers, Principal Security Engineers, and Principal Product Managers to create and deliver on the product visions they create.
Defining business and value proposition models that solve security team pain-points, and big rocks.
Drive innovative thinking in security process and product development.
Campaign, roadshow, and align Amazon security teams to the solutions developed by their engineering teams.
Define and continuously improve KPIs, KCI’s, OKRs, and/or executive team goals.
A day in the life
Your week will start by auditing the latest status on performance metrics related to the products you own; perusing the visibility/performance of Defensive Security's vulnerability management tools.
Early in the week you will meet with the VMSE leader, discuss business impacts with engineering leads, and work to resolve critical action items. As the week moves forward you will meet with partners, peers, leadership, and stakeholders to talk about security team pain points - as well as your latest ideas on how to solve them.
Your week will culminate in demos, retrospectives, and strategy kick off sessions with the three product organizations under your scope.
About the team
The VMSE organization is a large organization (50-person plus) serving security engineering operations teams world-wide. The team is composed of several Sr. SDEs, Principal TPMs, Principal Security Engineers, and managers with greater than 5+ years tenure at Amazon.
The organization supports rapid response security teams, which provides a unique experience to manage scale on several dimensions (business unit use cases, data scaling, risk scaling, and imminent thread activity).
As an exciting opportunity, this role would be the first PMT in the space - making this a green field opportunity.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field.
Understanding of Cyber Threats, MITR, and vulnerability assessment/discovery.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
Successful delivery of security products into high-scale production environments.
Experience building SIEM, SOAR, MDR/VM, and vulnerability scanning systems.
Familiar with CVE, CPE, CWE, and emerging vulnerability trends.
Subject Matter Expert in Cyber Security Management.
Familiarity with developing A.I. driven products, and bringing them to market.
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 $161,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/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.