Our mission is to build and deploy best-in-class tools to improve the selling partner experience and accelerate selling partner growth across Amazon stores. Internally, our tools are used on a daily basis to make our teammates’ jobs easier. Our customers are Amazon’s vendors, as well as our global Retail teams including vendor managers, customer service managers, buying specialists and other teams that support our vendor relationships. Our remit is expanding on multiple dimensions as we increase our feature set on behalf of North America Stores and add new WW marketplaces.
To enable this expansion, we are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to provide technical leadership, directly manage a team of talented Software Development Engineers, and work closely with a team of product managers and other partners and stakeholders in the US and abroad. The ideal candidate has an established track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams and launching new features and experiences with demonstrable impact. If that sounds like you, you bring deep technical ability and excellent project management and communication skills, and you thrive in highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment. Strong communication and writing skills are a must, as well as a strong focus on operational and engineering excellence. While you bring a strong point of view, you also have a track record of successful collaboration across a wide range of partners and functions.
Key job responsibilities
>> Team Leadership: lead and grow your team of engineers. Provide technical mentorship and career development while fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment
>> Technical Leadership: work closely with your engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach that scales for impact. Establish and optimize development processes that enable rapid experimentation and deployment while maintaining high quality standards. Build mechanisms to measure and improve the impact of what we launch.
>> Technical Strategy: ensure that our technical design is aligned with, and informs, our long term strategic vision to create value for Amazon's vendors and and employees.
>> Global collaboration: work with our product management team and other engineering teams to deeply understand customer use-cases and make thoughtful architectural decisions that create durable value.
>> Operational Excellence: Lead the team in delivering new features with high impact while making decisions that optimize for low operational overhead in the long term.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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