AWS Cloud Product Manager, Vice President

Who we are looking for

We are seeking a senior product leader for AWS Cloud Platform Engineering within State Street’s broader Cloud Platforms organization. As a core component of our Technology Platform Engineering and Operations (TPEO) function, this role will report directly to the Head of AWS Cloud platform.

Our cloud platforms serve as the backbone for business innovation, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient digital capabilities across the firm. The successful candidate will partner closely with senior leadership to shape strategic plans and product roadmap in support of our business strategy.

The AWS Cloud Platform Product Manager leads the vision and strategy for State Street’s enterprise AWS cloud platform in alignment with the firm’s hybrid multi-cloud strategy, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable delivery across the firm. This role leads the evolution toward a product-centric operating model in a thoughtful, patient, and collaborative manner—partnering closely with platform engineering team to embed product thinking, enhance developer and client experience,  drive shared ownership without disrupting ongoing delivery commitments.

Why this role is important to us

State Street’s cloud platforms are foundational to the firm’s ability to deliver modern, resilient, and scalable digital capabilities in a highly regulated environment. As the firm accelerates its hybrid multi-cloud strategy, the AWS Cloud Platform plays a critical role in enabling innovation while maintaining enterprise-grade security and control.

The AWS Cloud Platform:

• Serves as a strategic pillar of the firm’s hybrid multi-cloud architecture
• Enables application modernization, developer velocity, and enterprise-scale engineering
• Operates under stringent governance, security, and regulatory expectations

This role is critical to ensuring that AWS evolves as a true enterprise platform product—balancing innovation with stability—by:

• Driving alignment with enterprise platform strategy and evolving business priorities
• Establishing consistent, reusable, and scalable platform capabilities delivered as productized services
• Continuously improving platform outcomes across reliability, risk posture, developer experience, and cost efficiency
• Advancing the platform through close, collaborative partnership with engineering teams, ensuring changes are adopted in a pragmatic and sustainable manner

What you will be responsible for

• Define and own the long-term product vision and multi-year roadmap for the AWS cloud platform 
• Lead the evolution toward a product-centric model through incremental, well-sequenced changes that maintain delivery stability 
• Build strong, trust-based partnerships with platform engineering teams to co-create the product operating model 
• Demonstrate patience and pragmatism in balancing transformation goals with current organizational maturity 
• Enable teams to adopt product practices at a sustainable pace, including roadmaps, backlogs, and customer feedback loops
• Establish structured engagement mechanisms (e.g., developer forums, feedback loops, usage insights) to continuously refine platform priorities
• Act as executive-level voice of the customer for AWS platform consumers across Application, SRE, Infra, security and other cross functional teams 
• Set platform product strategy for AWS platform capabilities, account vending, networking, IAM, security guardrails, observability, automation, and service enablement 
• Drive prioritization decisions balancing enterprise risk, resilience, cost, and developer velocity 
• Partner with senior engineering, architecture, security, risk, and finance leaders to align platform investments to business outcomes 
• Establish platform success metrics and regularly report outcomes to executive technology leadership 
• Ensure security, compliance, and operational resilience are embedded as default capabilities across the AWS platform 
• Influence enterprise cloud standards, operating models, and governance forums as the AWS platform product leader 

What we value (skills that will help you succeed)

• Strong Product management experience owning platform products
• Proven experience leading platform as a product transformation with preferred expertise in Cloud platforms
• Customer obsession
• Demonstrated ability to lead gradual, large-scale operating model transformations
• Pragmatic and patient approach to change management
• Strong influencing skills in complex, federated organizations
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in regulated financial environments and working with global regulatory bodies like FRB, FCA, PRA, MAS etc around cloud controls and comp