Description
Within Data Center Engineering, the Mechanical Solutions team is driving rapid innovation in Mechanical Cooling and Controls systems used by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our designs are fundamentally changing the Data Center, providing operational and financial benefits that are critical to the success of the AWS business, and its millions of customers. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems and take big bets on new concepts enabling AWS services to continue to revolutionize the industry. This role provides the opportunity to engage with and lead the Technical Mechanical Product Management aspect for the liquid cooling development and deployment of advanced cloud infrastructure solutions.
This specific Sr. Mechanical Product Manager – Technical within Data Center Engineering will utilize their expertise to:
· Engage with internal and external Amazon customers and support teams to gain insights and capture critical data center needs for the business today and in the future pertaining liquid cooling infrastructure
· Utilize those insights to identify specific liquid cooling data center requirements, create a data center vision, and own the solution development roadmap for liquid cooling products critical to the data center portfolio
· Coordinate between multiple teams to develop compelling business cases to substantiate business value, define development prioritization, and outline resources required to implement solution roadmaps
· Drive continuous advancements and improvements within our data center designs, and communicate technical direction to Senior Management
· Own and drive the complete solution lifecycle from idea conception through implementation and wide scale deployment of liquid cooling solutions
· Develop capacity features and deployment strategies to improve speed of deployment, profitability and penetration for liquid cooling deployments
· Work independently in a high pressure environment with all levels of leadership and exercise sound judgment where clear guidelines may not exist
Amazon's vision is to be the world's most customer-centric company, and this role is key to that vision. These technologies are essential for meeting our customers’ expectations for service and value and meeting Amazon’s goals for efficiency, speed, and reliability as we continue expanding our data centers at hyper-scale speed. As an ideal candidate, you:
· Are passionate about understanding customers’ needs
· Are great at solving problems
· Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Engineering, Product Development, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain)
· Are comfortable addressing and resolving ambiguity
· Recognize and appreciate diversity of thought and perspectives
Each day you will interact with different teams responsible for engineering, product development, finance, integration, and operation of these complex technology programs. You prioritize your activities to support data center product development, identify and resolve problems and blockers, and focus on the actions that are most impactful for product success.
A day in the life
Our Technical Product Managers work closely with key partners to innovate, create, manage, and deliver world class products to be deployed in our data centers. Our product manager work passionately to define customer requirements, development compelling product strategies to drive business value, and partner with cross functional teams and external vendors to make their strategies a reality at AWS scale!
About the team
About the team
The Mechanical Solutions team provides engineering expertise and design support for mechanical equipment in data centers globally. This includes support for new products and design features that address the mechanical cooling systems included in data center deployments. We own and support mechanical products throughout their lifecycle. Our scope also includes emergent global scale remediation strategic efforts that impact Data Center capacity or availability and introducing and driving business improvement initiatives increasing visibility and enabling data driven decision making.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Herndon, VA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
5+ years relevant work experience in or working with mission critical facilities
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree
7+ years of technical product or program management experience
Experience leading innovative product development for Data Center liquid cooling applications
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