Amazon · 1 month ago
Head of Creator Technologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$264K/yr - $350K/yr
15+ years expAmazon's Audible is a leading producer of audio storytelling, and they are seeking a Head of Creator Technologies to drive strategy and execution in emerging technologies. The role involves leading a team to enhance creator offerings and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Define the strategy and lead the full product and delivery life cycle of emerging creator technologies
Work at both the strategic and tactical level to champion bold, innovative creator solutions
Have ownership over creator stack tool decisions, technical implementation, resource & roadmap planning and issue remediation
Manage the complete software development lifecycle: defining, prioritizing, designing, and leading implementation and testing of new features within an Agile environment
Partner effectively with all levels of leadership and with key stakeholders in Marketing, Content, Legal, and Amazon partner teams
Influence through data-driven business cases to drive decisions
Represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential strategies clearly to executives to help them understand the decisions they have to make
Constantly strive to raise the bar on delivery, operational excellence, performance, and quality in a fast-paced agile environment
Define, manage, and improve the software and product development processes by working closely with high-performance builders
Coach and mentor our high-performing architects and engineers to help them grow their skills, enhance their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done, while enabling them to be future leaders who are focused on building a high growth and inclusive culture
Architect and develop the innovative technical design and implementation approach with the overall product line goals and objectives in mind
Own team’s operational excellence, including creation of and monitoring of metrics and alarms in a continuous process improvement environment
Be a passionate builder of talent and teams: hire, coach, and mentor builders on the team
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
15+ years of industry experience in software development
5+ years of experience building, managing and developing software engineering teams and 3+ years of managing multiple managers of teams
Prior experience as a software engineer including experience designing and coding highly scalable, available and low latency services
Experience in driving new feature prioritization, development, and delivery
Experience collaborating with and influencing technical leaders
Experience in creating communication strategies that engage and impact internal and external stakeholders
Professional experience in setting up end-to-end marketing technology stacks, marketing automation programs, and data flows
Experience working with customer data platforms, tag management platforms, web analytics tools and marketing automation tools
Preferred
Demonstrated ability to build, motivate and retain high-performance engineering teams while leading engineering culture change
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
Keeps up to date on AI innovations that align with our business goals
Experienced with building and architecting on AWS
Experience being a manager of managers, growing managers to scale with the needs of the organization and working through others to accomplish the day-to-day work of the organization
Demonstrated ability to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively across teams & multiple division stakeholders
Results oriented and with a strong customer focus
Highly autonomous
Delivers with little guidance
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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