Principal Product Manager - Tech, Vulnerability Management Solutions Engineering (VMSE)

Do you like diving deep with customers, and creating innovative solutions for their problems? Are you passionate about modeling value propositions, gain drivers, or pain relievers for customers? Would you prefer to work with global customers directly on a day-to-day basis? Does the idea of building product vision, and driving adoption of that vision across multiple organizations excite you? If so, this Principal Product Management - Technical (PMT) role is the one for you!

The Vulnerability Management Solutions Engineering (VMSE) organization is looking for a tenured Principal PMT to join our growing team of security engineers, software engineers, and scientists. This PMT will shape the future vision of our Incident Command/Response, Vulnerability Management, and security scanning capabilities for the longer term. They will work across two 50-person plus operations teams, two 50-person plus engineering organizations, and partner with over 5 security engineering organizations. They will developed a product strategy and roadmap for internal Tier-1 tools that improve Incident Response, vulnerability management, and host/container scanning solutions for Amazon. In addition to this, they will become a pioneer in A.I. based product development in the cyber security space; conceiving Think Big opportunities to change how security teams manage security findings at scale.

The vision for the PMT in this role is to define what we are calling the “security management control plane” - an operations console that enables Defensive Security teams to managed security findings across Amazon’s compute infrastructure. Successful PMT’s in this role will build strong relationships with partners that focus on the builder experience, as well as security teams across several Amazon Business Units.



Key job responsibilities
- Maintaining high executive presence as part of vocal/written communications in Amazon Security business reviews.
- Defining product vision, 3-year plans, and yearly strategy planning documents. These artifacts will articulate a solution/strategy for enabling Incident Command, Incident Response, Vulnerability Discovery, Vulnerability Assessment, and security team onboarding.
- Partnering with executives to ensure high transparency on the visibility/security status of assets under the care of Defensive Security.
- Working alongside peer Principal Software Engineers, Principal Security Engineers, and Principal Product Managers to create and deliver on the product visions they create.
- Defining business and value proposition models that solve security team pain-points, and big rocks.
- Drive innovative thinking in security process and product development.
- Campaign, roadshow, and align Amazon security teams to the solutions developed by their engineering teams.
- Define and continuously improve KPIs, KCI’s, OKRs, and/or executive team goals.



A day in the life
Your week will start by auditing the latest status on performance metrics related to the products you own; perusing the visibility/performance of Defensive Security's vulnerability management tools.

Early in the week you will meet with the VMSE leader, discuss business impacts with engineering leads, and work to resolve critical action items. As the week moves forward you will meet with partners, peers, leadership, and stakeholders to talk about security team pain points - as well as your latest ideas on how to solve them.

Your week will culminate in demos, retrospectives, and strategy kick off sessions with the three product organizations under your scope.

About the team
The VMSE organization is a large organization (50-person plus) serving security engineering operations teams world-wide. The team is composed of several Sr. SDEs, Principal TPMs, Principal Security Engineers, and managers with greater than 5+ years tenure at Amazon.

The organization supports rapid response security teams, which provides a unique experience to manage scale on several dimensions (business unit use cases, data scaling, risk scaling, and imminent thread activity).

As an exciting opportunity, this role would be the first PMT in the space - making this a green field opportunity.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professional