Amazon
Principal Product Manager - Technical, External Services, AWS, GenAIUX
$181K–$245K
Seattle, WA · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- The posting gives conflicting experience thresholds: 10+ years in technical product management, program management, or engineering, including 5+ years at senior/principal level owning portfolio strategy; elsewhere it lists 7+ years as a Technical Product Manager and 5+ years of technical experience. It also lists 4+ years of technical experience in the detailed qualifications.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience). Preferred: MBA or advanced technical degree.
About the job
Defines AWS’s persona strategy and portfolio of GenAI-powered customer applications, aligning teams and validating product direction through hands-on prototyping.
What you'll do
- Establish persona research frameworks and translate customer insights into a portfolio strategy, application concepts, and investment priorities.
- Set product roadmaps, customer-outcome metrics, and organization-wide alignment; influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
- Engage customers and represent AWS externally while mentoring product talent and personally prototyping GenAI experiences.
What they ask for
- At least 4 years of hands-on technical experience and 10+ years in technical product management, program management, or engineering, including 5+ years at senior/principal level owning portfolio strategy.
- Experience delivering large-scale products through the full lifecycle, building complex software systems, and shipping AI/ML or Generative AI products at scale.
- Hands-on GenAI prototyping, prompt engineering, or functional demo/POC experience; ability to lead in high-ambiguity settings and influence organization-level strategy.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
Nice to have
- MBA or advanced technical degree; knowledge of LLMs, agentic architectures, conversational AI, AI development tooling, UX research, or AWS services.
- External thought leadership, such as conference talks, published papers, or industry demos.
Pay
181,100.00 - 245,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, LangChain, Large Language Models
AI focus
Develops persona-driven GenAI applications for AWS customers; requires hands-on prompting, prototyping, and evaluation of GenAI systems, with experience shipping AI/ML or Generative AI products.
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