Principal Product Manager - Technical, AWS Identity and Access Management
Amazon· Internet & Cloud Services· Sep 15, 2026 · 1mo ago
Seattle, Washington, USA
In office
Full-time
Principal
$181K–$245K
7+ years exp
Job description
Agent guardrails, governance, task success rate are key requirements for customers operating in the cloud. We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive the evolution of AWS Identity and Access Management (including related services like Access Analyzer, Sign-in, and Security Token Service) as agents reshape the developer experience. In this role, you'll define the roadmap for IAM's authentication and authorization technologies, risk classifications for agent actions, propagation of agent and human identities for downstream access control and auditing, an "on-behalf-of" mechanisms based on evolving industry-standard protocols.
In this role, you will collaborate directly with engineering, product, and executive leadership. You are an experienced product manager who understands the big picture, drives prioritization, rallies the team, and mentors junior product managers.
Key job responsibilities
* Define product requirements for customer-facing cloud identity services
* Set business strategy and make high-judgment roadmap prioritization trade-offs
* Synthesize customer requirements from developers, cloud architects, security engineers, and data administrators
* Communicate to AWS executive leadership
* Partner with internal and external stakeholders
* Manage risk and escalations, and balance business needs against technical constraints
About the team
We’re the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. We build and operate one of the largest and most important software systems in the world – one that is used by every AWS customer, makes authentication and authorization decisions about every AWS API request, and needs to scale with all other AWS services.
- 7+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
- 5+ years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- Experience delivering large-scale SaaS, PaaS or LaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle, from concept through GTM (go to market)
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Expertise in identity and SSO protocols including OIDC/OAuth, SAML, and SCIM
- MBA, or Master's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
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USA, WA, Seattle - 181,100.00 - 245,000.00 USD annually
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