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Principal Product Manager - Technical, AWS Identity and Access Management

Seattle, WAOnsiteFull TimePrincipal$181,100–$245,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Access Analyzer
  • Sign-in
  • Security Token Service
  • OIDC
  • OAuth
  • SAML
  • SCIM
  • AI/ML
  • SaaS
  • PaaS

Role summary

AWS is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the evolution of its Identity and Access Management (IAM) services, including related offerings like Access Analyzer, Sign-in, and Security Token Service. This role focuses on defining roadmaps for authentication, authorization, agent/human identity propagation, and "on-behalf-of" mechanisms, especially in the context of evolving agent technologies. The position requires close collaboration with engineering, product, and executive leadership, with responsibilities including defining product requirements, setting strategy, prioritizing roadmaps, synthesizing customer needs, and communicating with senior leadership. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technical product management, large-scale SaaS/PaaS/IaaS product delivery, and expertise in identity protocols and AI/ML technologies.

Agent guardrails, governance, task success rate are key requirements for customers operating in the cloud. We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive the evolution of AWS Identity and Access Management (including related services like Access Analyzer, Sign-in, and Security Token Service) as agents reshape the developer experience. In this role, you'll define the roadmap for IAM's authentication and authorization technologies, risk classifications for agent actions, propagation of agent and human identities for downstream access control and auditing, an "on-behalf-of" mechanisms based on evolving industry-standard protocols.

In this role, you will collaborate directly with engineering, product, and executive leadership. You are an experienced product manager who understands the big picture, drives prioritization, rallies the team, and mentors junior product managers.

Key job responsibilities
* Define product requirements for customer-facing cloud identity services
* Set business strategy and make high-judgment roadmap prioritization trade-offs
* Synthesize customer requirements from developers, cloud architects, security engineers, and data administrators
* Communicate to AWS executive leadership
* Partner with internal and external stakeholders
* Manage risk and escalations, and balance business needs against technical constraints

About the team
We’re the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. We build and operate one of the largest and most important software systems in the world – one that is used by every AWS customer, makes authentication and authorization decisions about every AWS API request, and needs to scale with all other AWS services. Basic Qualifications: - 7+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
- 5+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- 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)
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Expertise in identity and SSO protocols including OIDC/OAuth, SAML, and SCIM Preferred Qualifications: - MBA, or Master's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.



USA, WA, Seattle - 181,100.00 - 245,000.00 USD annually

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