Amazon Elastic MapReduce enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively perform analytics on vast amounts of data on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

The Amazon Elastic MapReduce team is growing rapidly, and is seeking a product manager with strong product and program management experience in platform level products or services. This leader will define and drive the product strategy and roadmap that will help us scale this business as the leading cloud computing provider in customer satisfaction, operational performance and market segment share. Responsibilities include large-scale projects and initiatives to further grow the business in current and adjacent markets. This is a highly visible position that will interact at all levels of the AWS and Amazon.com business.

Key Strategic Objectives:

• Provide highly elastic, completely user controlled analytics platform in the cloud that is reliable, secure, easty-to-use and inexpensive. Our customers are broadly based and heterogeneous in their needs, and as an Internet-facing service we expect Amazon Elastic MapReduce to expand to a massive scale seldom seen in systems.
• Drive broad adoption and provide unparalleled customer experience. Develop a strategic and tactical plan that drives additional awareness, trial, adoption, and repeat usage of Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Among the mechanisms this leader should evaluate and be comfortable with include feature development, pricing changes, various marketing channels (i.e. Public Relations, Developer Evangelism, Promotions, etc.), customer surveys and profiling, partner management, sample application, code samples, and technical documentation, development, etc.
• Lead the organization through change, evolution, and sustained growth. The right leader will evolve and scale the organization along with the business. They will lead by example, being just as passionate about operational performance and predictability as they are about all other aspects of the customer experience. With the business growing this rapidly, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, this individual 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.

*Please email our AWS Recruiting Lead, Kelly O'Mara (komara@amazon.com), if you have any questions.*

Basic Qualifications

The successful candidate will be a broad leader – part builder, part operator and part general manager. This leader has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a very high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly. He or she is a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented, opinionated team.   This leader should have a proven ability to design, deliver, and operate a technical service that is robust in the face of failure around it. It is important that this leader have an operational component to his/her leadership skill set.

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
- Exhibit excellent judgment
- Hire and develop great people.
- Relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
- Ability to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
- Expect and require innovation of her/his team
- Passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
- Strong results orientation
- Think big (visionary)

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon Elastic MapReduce presents and about cloud computing, in general. This leader has thrived and succeeded in delivering broadly adopted technology products/services in a very high growth environment where priorities shift fast. He or she is a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented, opinionated team. The Amazon Web Services business requires innovative thinking balanced with a strong customer and quality focus. This leader will have a strong track record of achieving that balance.

From a business and technical perspective, this leader will:
- Have a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services
- Possess a strong understanding of the industry
- Be conversant with internet technologies
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit

Bachelors degree required

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or an engineering field
• MBA

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

• 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