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

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.

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