Principal Technical Product Manager, External Services, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is looking for a Principal Product Manager - Technical to own and grow the Streaming Tables portfolio across the Kinesis and Amazon MSK product lines. Streaming Tables lands real-time streaming data directly into analytics-ready open table formats, such as Apache Iceberg on Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Tables. It"s a strategic bet that connects AWS streaming with the lakehouse.

As the senior product leader for this area, you"ll set the multi-year vision and strategy, define the business, and build it into a major growth driver for AWS streaming. The goal is to make it zero-ETL to turn any stream on AWS into a fresh, governed table that"s ready to query. That means aligning many teams on one direction: Kinesis, MSK, S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, Redshift, and EMR.

You"ll operate with a high degree of ambiguity and autonomy. You"ll write the strategy narratives that AWS VPs and senior leaders use to make decisions, and you"ll represent AWS to strategic customers, partners, and the open-source community. You"ll also raise the bar for product management across the organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and 3+ year roadmap for Streaming Tables across Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon MSK. Define how the portfolio grows into new product lines and use cases.
• Own business outcomes for the portfolio: revenue, adoption, and active customers, plus investment cases and headcount asks in OP1/OP2 planning.
• Write PRFAQs, strategy 6-pagers, and leadership alignment documents, and drive decisions with VPs and senior leaders.
• Shape the technical direction with Principal Engineers on open table format delivery: Apache Iceberg (self-managed on S3 and S3 Tables), schema evolution, compaction, exactly-once semantics, freshness SLAs, and catalog integration.
• Drive alignment and shared roadmaps across AWS service teams so customers get one seamless experience from end to end.
• Represent AWS externally: strategic customers, partners, analysts, re:Invent and other conference talks, and engagement with the Apache Iceberg/Kafka communities.
• Define pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategy with Product Marketing, Sales, and Solutions Architects.
• Set competitive strategy against Confluent Tableflow, Databricks, Snowflake, and others to keep AWS differentiated over the long term.
• Mentor PMs and raise the product management bar in the org, including serving as a bar raiser in hiring.

A day in the life

You might start your morning reviewing customer engagement data and refining your service roadmap based on emerging adoption patterns. By midday, you are in a working session with engineering leads, debating architectural trade-offs for a new capability and aligning on priorities. In the afternoon, you join a call with an enterprise customer to understand how they integrate your service into their technology stack, then translate those insights into a product narrative that will shape next quarter"s investment decisions.

About the team

Our team builds and operates services that are used by businesses of all sizes to solve real operational challenges. We are a collaborative group of product managers, engineers, and business leaders who believe that the best products come from deeply understanding our customers and iterating quickly on their behalf. We value knowledge-sharing and mentorship, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every team member can grow. If you want to shape services that have broad, meaningful impact, we would love to have you join us.