Software Development Manager, Alexa Customers & Technology
Amazon
Description
Join the team that brought you the Echo Show, a touch-screen enabled Alexa device that supports video calling, music, weather, and more! Our Echo Software team works on not only the Echo Show but other high-profile consumer electronics products including Fire TV, Kindle, and the Echo family of devices.
As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading the technical vision of your team and will have a strong influence on the overall strategy of the Alexa device software. You are comfortable with high-levels of ambiguity and make thoughtful trade-offs utilizing strong technical judgement and data. You have hands-on technical expertise and will lead a team of highly competent engineers through design, development and launch of high-visibility, high-impact projects. You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions excite our customers. Additional responsibilities of this role include engaging with various stake-holders across business and product management.
Key job responsibilities
· Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle of a key products
· Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
· Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
· Management of staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-in-class engineering team
· Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
· Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
· Develop the long-term strategy for onboarding and device settings initiatives and translate it into an achievable road map/action plan
· Leveraging and driving AI adoption for the velocity and efficiency gains