Software Development Manager - Prime Video Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Do you want to take an active role in shaping the future of movies, television, and digital video? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video provides content to reach millions of Amazon customers on the Amazon Video service. We're a high energy, fast growth business excited to have the opportunity to shape new ways for content providers to reach their audiences. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals.

We are seeking a talented Software Development Manager to grow and develop a team of passionate engineers in building the next generation machine learning and computer vision platform for Prime Video. Our providers range from small indie film-makers to major partners who need fully integrated, automated systems to publish at scale. This team is responsible for defining, designing, and building the systems that enhance the entertainment experience to the delight our worldwide audiences.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business tactical to system goals to specific interfaces. You don't shrink from the spotlight, able to coordinate cross-org meetings, field difficult questions, and create positive collaborative outcomes. You are adept at reading code, evaluating research and writing documents for an executive audience. You ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and secure.

You will have an enormous opportunity to impact both the customer and partner experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge products that will be used every day by people you know, and influence industry and industry standards. No matter what the role, we're looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while they make history.

What you'll do:

* Manage and grow a team of software engineers and applied scientists, and you will direct their projects, performance, and career growth
* Clearly communicate project roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders
* Work with peer managers to determine scope and estimate development effort
* Lead systems design, architecture, and scaling discussions
* Influence and adopt industry standards
* Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
* Have fun and make history!