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Posted June 01, 2021
Amazon

Sr Software Development Manager, Influencer Marketing

Amazon
New York, NY, USA ⚠ [Archived] No Longer Accepting Applicants
Compensation: $120,000 to $250,000 Annually

DESCRIPTION

If leading an engineering team to build innovative products and services for a large and growing group of social media content creators interests you, read on, because the Amazon Influencers team is looking for you.

As the Software Development Manager for Influencers, you are responsible for the Amazon Influencer experience, worldwide. You will work alongside product, design, and marketing across top teams at Amazon and lead your team to define and build experiences for social media influencers that change the industry landscape. You are specifically responsible for the products and tools influencers use every day to apply to the Amazon Influencer Program, manage their accounts, and the reporting and insights they receive when they post shoppable photos, videos, lists, and livestream. You are also responsible for ensuring their data meets the highest standards for privacy for the many stakeholder teams across the company who want to showcase influencer content. Along the way, you’ll identify opportunities for improvements and put processes and tools in place to scale the program and support continual efficiency gains. A successful candidate will have a great mix of engineering, people, and business skills. She or he will demonstrate excellent judgement, have strong written and verbal communication skills, and be passionate about hiring, mentoring and retaining a strong engineering team. This manager will be a great team player who will naturally elevate the performance of the people around them, and will relish working in a startup environment, experimenting, and iterating rapidly. Finally, the successful candidate will have a track record of leading and delivering complex technical systems with high business value.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
· 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
· Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
· Experience with modern software development practices. Solid grounding in Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, programming languages and distributed systems.
· Track record of contributing to large, cross-team initiatives.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in digital advertising or marketing. Familiarity with technical aspects of digital / display advertising
· Advanced quantitative analytical abilities
· Experience leading cross-functional teams that include software development, machine learning, product management and UX/frontend
· Track record of contributing to large, cross-team initiatives.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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