Principal Product Manager - Technical, Mechanical Infrastructure, Data Center Engineering

Description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a high-impact Principal Product Manager with a deep specialization in mechanical infrastructure to define and execute the product strategy for our next-generation infrastructure and facility systems. As a technical leader, you will bridge the gap between abstract business/scale goals and physical engineering realities, ensuring our designs are fit for purpose, scalable, and cost-effective.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

As a Principal Mechanical Product Manager you will be responsible for defining the "what" and "why" of our mechanical strategy, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams, and driving critical decisions even in the face of complexity or resistance. The leader in this role has the ability to make tough calls, stand behind decisions, and navigate obstacles. You must be comfortable pushing back on stakeholders and driving alignment.

You are the voice of the business at the front of the pipeline — the person who decides which platforms earn the organization’s capacity, and why. You own the customer need each platform serves, its system-level requirements, and how it fits into the broader roadmap. You own the technical requirements strategy that sets the foundation for timing, cost, and execution. You own the mechanism by which field, cost, and customer signals are collected, converted into requirements for a new platform or its next revision, and prioritized against everything else in the portfolio. You bring rigor to the front end so that platforms enter the pipeline with validated business requirements, clear boundaries, and a defensible priority.

Key job responsibilities
- System-Level Ownership: Own and understand how mechanical designs impact the broader infrastructure (e.g., cooling, electrical, structural). Evaluate how new business requests affect the entire fleet and propose integrated solutions.
- Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and communicate a multi-year vision, strategy, and product roadmap for advanced mechanical infrastructure products. Coordinate between multiple teams to develop compelling business cases to substantiate business value, define product prioritization, and outline budget and resources required to implement product roadmaps.
- Modular Standardization: Standardize complex mechanical systems into modular, prefabricated skids to compress on-site data center construction and commissioning timelines.
- Global Compliance & Localization: Ensure the core mechanical product line remains compatible across multiple global geographic zones, accommodating varying regional building codes, environmental constraints, and extreme climate variations.
- Strategic Alignment & Vision: Lead the definition of challenges at the facility and product levels. Ensure all stakeholders are aligned on the path forward, particularly when navigating complex transitions.
- Value Engineering & Decision Making: Actively challenge existing assumptions regarding cost and complexity.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as a subject matter expert who can evaluate technical trade-offs.
- Systems Thinking: Ability to see the big picture and understand the upstream/downstream impacts of mechanical design choices on electrical and structural systems.

A day in the life
Your day moves between signal and strategy. You might begin by synthesizing customer needs and cost data into a sharpened requirement for a platform’s next revision, then join a pre-production readiness review where you and a Principal Engineer pressure-test whether an existing product can serve a new customer need or whether a new variant is truly justified. In the afternoon you might defend a platform’s priority against competing portfolio demands in front of leadership, armed with the business case for why it earns the org’s capacity.

Your internal stakeholders span the full lifecycle: Principal Engineers, TPMs, product team, engineering, sourcing, industrialization and construction partners. The problems you solve are the hardest ones at the front of the funnel: what the business actually needs, whether we already have it, and what it is worth relative to everything else.

About the team
Why AWS?
About AWS
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platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers
from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and
services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 8+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
- Strong working knowledge of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mechanical packaging.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- Experience with high-density thermal solutions (e.g., liquid cooling, chillers, cooling distribution units (CDUs), or heat rejection systems)
- Experience in Contract Manufacturing, especially launching and scaling production of mechanical products
- Experience writing documents on business requirements for new products, product development proposals, process improvement initiatives and/or product roadmaps

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, GA, Atlanta - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually