Amazon RDS (Relational Database Services) enables customers of all sizes to run managed databases on Amazon’s industry leading cloud computing infrastructure. Amazon RDS makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud.  By automating common administrative tasks such as provisioning, setup, backups, patching, scaling, and replication, Amazon RDS reduces the overall cost and time required to build and launch new applications.

The Amazon RDS team is growing rapidly, and is seeking a product manager with strong technical, product and program management experience in database products or services. Your primary responsibility will be to own a database service and accelerate the business growth in current and adjacent markets. You will achieve that by shaping and driving the product strategy and roadmap that focuses on customer experience, user adoption, and operational excellence. In this is a highly visible position you will interact with the senior management team within AWS and Amazon.com businesses.

Key Strategic Objectives:

• Provide unparalleled customer experience for the service you own and drive broad adoption. Create and execute on product plans to deliver new features, pricing changes, marketing programs, customer surveys, partner engagements, “how to” guides, and technical documentation.  Develop a strategic and tactical plan that measures and improves the awareness, trial, and adoption of Amazon RDS.
• Grow to lead the organization through change, evolution, and sustained scaling. The right individual will aspire to become a leader with drive and competencies to scale the organization to match the business growth. You will lead by example, being just as passionate about operational performance and predictability as you are about all other aspects of the customer experience. You will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to exhibit excellent judgment on how to prioritize between focusing on existing versus new customers and between features, architectural improvements and operational excellence.

Leadership Capability:

• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Hires and develops great people.
• Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
• Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
• Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others

• 7+ years of product management experience preferably with internet business experience.
• He/she must also have 5+ years of building and leading product teams, scaling them to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
• Candidates must have 7 plus years of experience translating customer needs into features, pricing models, and merchandising opportunities to deliver an unparalleled customer experience.
• BA/BS required

• Strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services
• Strong understanding of the cloud and database industry
• Full awareness of internet technologies and scaling requirements
• Hands-on design and deployment experience in MySQL and/or commercial database engines such as Oracle or SQL Server
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Strong Drive for results
• BS in Computer Science or an engineering field, Mathematics, Economics with an MBA is preferred.