Colby Lavin
AWS General Manager
- Role
- General Manager, Amazon Alerting at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Location
- Oakland, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Colby Lavin
Product leader with 20 years of experience building scalable platforms and high-performing teams. Recognized for driving sales growth and product adoptions, while leading organizations through complex deliverables and technical modernizations. Proven at aligning vision with rigorous execution to deliver customer-obsessed solutions.Expertise: Product Strategy & Roadmaps, Product Management & Marketing, Market Research & Competitive Analysis, Team Leadership & Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Usability (UI & UX), Software Development (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall), Mobile / SaaS / B2B / Enterprise Products
Experience
General Manager, Amazon Alerting
Jun 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Amazon Alerting enables Amazonians to immediately respond to emergent issues and reduce the time to resolve customer impacting events. Our infrastructure supports engagement and resolution for Amazon to continually improve the security and reliability of the services our customers depend on.• Owned, developed, and drove strategic and tactical plans to resolve Amazon’s largest systemic risks to missed responses during critical incidents, reducing risks by over 90%.• Transformed underperforming team with a 5-year history of \"best intention\" strategy through customer-centric mechanisms, data, and a structured approach for strategic investments.• Led a 30-person cross-functional team (Product, Program, Engineering, UX) to expand scope through strategic partnerships.
Education
The University of New Mexico
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics
2003 — 2006
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
1992 — 1997
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
MBA, Entrepreneurship, Management of Technology
2006 — 2008
Skills
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Start-Ups
- Saas
- Business Planning
- Business Development
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Analytics
- Business Strategy
- Product Development
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Marketing Strategy
- Social Media
- Program Management
- Product Management
- Enterprise Software
- Product Marketing
- Strategic Partnerships
- Agile Methodologies
- Entrepreneurship
- New Business Development
- Marketing
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