Amazon

Description

Help shape the future of digital experiences for children! Join Amazon Kids+, where our mission is empower the next generation of digital learners and explorers. Here your technical leadership will directly impact how children interact with technology and parents engage with their children's digital experiences.

We're seeking a forward-thinking Sr SDM to lead the deliver of key products and technology in India to create breakthrough digital experiences for children. Our ideal candidate will demonstrate exemplary robustness in device software, scalable distributed systems, and development of Gen AI/ML customer-facing applications.

Why You'll Love This Role

• Lead complex engineering initiatives that directly shape how kids play, learn, and create on Amazon Kids’ products.
• Solve unique technical challenges in child-focused digital products
• Develop innovative technology to create safe, engaging and fun digital environments for kids.

Key job responsibilities

1. Own and deliver against a high impact vision that reinvent the Amazon Kids+ experiences by integrating Gen AI to create breakthrough digital experiences for children.

2. Advise and influence on product and roadmap decisions to achieve high impact business goals that drive Kids+ subscriber growth.

3. Lead the implementation of scalable, secure software systems that balance innovative technology that meets exceptionally high standards for child safety and transparent parental control

3. Ensure teams' architecture and product implementation is robustly performant, can scale internationally, and hits a high bar for compliance with child privacy regulations across all Kids Edition Devices sold across the world.

4. Develop high-performing team(s) that set new engineering standards to elevate the technical capabilities of the Amazon Kids team.

5. Communicate complex technical strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences; including peers, senior leaders, and key stakeholders.

A day in the life

• Lead and develop high-performing engineering talent fluent in Gen AI development and strong in customer obsession.
• Work with a cross-disciplinary team of engineers, product designers, and child development experts to deliver transformative digital experiences that foster children's independence and imagination.
• Be hands-on in shaping product experiences, user interfaces, and team processes that prioritize child engagement, learning, and safety.
• Challenge existing approaches to develop breakthrough technologies that enhance how children learn, play, and explore with devices.
• Partner closely with device hardware, services, and content teams to create seamless, delightful, and highly reliable digital experiences across Kids Edition Devices

About the team

At Amazon Kids, we aim to inspire the next generation of thinkers, creators and explorers with approachable technology, premium digital content, and engaging interactive experiences. We meet families where they are, growing with them and evolving with their needs. We empower parents by providing tools to know, guide, and feel good about what their kids are doing.

Our team is a cross-functional organization including engineering and scientists all aiming to solve the hardest technical problems for building products kids love and parents trust.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

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