Software Development Manager, Personalization, Recommendations, Machine Learning Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon's Personalization team is creating a new program at the intersection of recommender systems, content optimization, and advertising. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, leading a green field space strategically important to Amazon's next generation recommendations capabilities in understanding customer behavior. You will hone your skills in areas such as deep learning and natural language understanding, while building scalable industrial machine learning systems that handle billions of requests a day. You will lead a collaborative team of talented engineers and ML scientists, you will have a unique opportunity to drive massive impact on Amazon's customer base, driving billions of dollars in revenue per year

We are looking for an entrepreneurial software development manager with strong leadership, great judgment, clear communication skills, and strong track record of delivery and hiring/coaching.

As a part of this role, you will:

* Build and manage a team of Software Engineers and Applied Scientists
* Foster career growth and a strong team culture.
* Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach technical staff.
* Interface with our internal customers to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress.
* Own all operational metrics and support for your team's software.
* Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver incremental value to customers.
* Help develop long-term development and business technology strategies.

Lead the team that will help define the future of personalization at the biggest internet retailer on earth.We hope you will join us!