POSTED Apr 9
Software Development Manager (Level 6), Personalization - Discovery Innovation
at Amazon ⋅ US, NY, New York
Are you passionate about innovating and delivering shopping experiences that empower every Amazon customer based on their unique shopping intent? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using ML and Gen AI technologies? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to make informed purchase decisions from a multi-billion product selection!
Key job responsibilities
* Thinking big and working with executive leadership and business stakeholders to define strategy and roadmap.
* Management and execution against roadmap, project plans and delivery commitments
* Owning all metrics around initiative goals you will define. We make decisions based on data.
* Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
* Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team
* Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
* Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
A day in the life
As a manager on the team, you will lead a multi-role engineering team and guide them to build software platforms and features that enables millions of Amazon customers worldwide to discover products that match their shopping intent throughout their shopping journey. You will delight customers by personalizing their shopping experiences, guiding them from discovery through purchase. Additionally, you will enable 45+ teams across the company by building services that personalize the shopping experience for our customers.
About the team
The Discover Innovation team is dedicated to assisting customers in fulfilling their shopping missions and empowering other Amazon teams by leveraging our deep understanding of customer intent. Our vision for Intent-Aware Amazon aims for personalized experiences to become a cornerstone for customers, alongside Earth’s largest selection, competitive prices, and swift, free shipping. In tailoring the shopping experience to each customer’s intent, we envision operating seamlessly across Amazon as a talented personal shopping assistant — a partner that is trusted, knowledgeable, and understands your unique preferences.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA
Key job responsibilities
* Thinking big and working with executive leadership and business stakeholders to define strategy and roadmap.
* Management and execution against roadmap, project plans and delivery commitments
* Owning all metrics around initiative goals you will define. We make decisions based on data.
* Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle
* Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team
* Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
* Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
A day in the life
As a manager on the team, you will lead a multi-role engineering team and guide them to build software platforms and features that enables millions of Amazon customers worldwide to discover products that match their shopping intent throughout their shopping journey. You will delight customers by personalizing their shopping experiences, guiding them from discovery through purchase. Additionally, you will enable 45+ teams across the company by building services that personalize the shopping experience for our customers.
About the team
The Discover Innovation team is dedicated to assisting customers in fulfilling their shopping missions and empowering other Amazon teams by leveraging our deep understanding of customer intent. Our vision for Intent-Aware Amazon aims for personalized experiences to become a cornerstone for customers, alongside Earth’s largest selection, competitive prices, and swift, free shipping. In tailoring the shopping experience to each customer’s intent, we envision operating seamlessly across Amazon as a talented personal shopping assistant — a partner that is trusted, knowledgeable, and understands your unique preferences.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA