Software Development Manager - eComm

AMAZON IS LOOKING FOR A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Job Description

Amazon.com and its subsidiaries are leaders in the online retail industry, enabling customers WW to purchase millions of unique items. The WW Traffic team is specifically chartered with the responsibility of marketing our products, and to drive traffic to Amazon to increase sales. As Amazon.com seeks to increase its presence in many countries with different customer behaviors, one of our biggest challenges is to increase the awareness of our product selection and price to customers, and to make us the premier online shopping company.

The WW Traffic team employs several advertising channels to be able to bring customers to Amazon – Paid Search, Free Search, Core Associates, Enterprise Associates, Email marketing, Goldbox deals, Online Display, Social Media, Browser Integration and Life stage marketing. We have systems that are able to monitor customer behavior on Amazon.com and on other websites, correlate purchases and browsing history on the internet, and come up with intelligent advertising campaigns that would maximize the benefit to Amazon. We do this by calculating the probability of a customer making a purchase because of an advertisement, the cost of showing that advertisement, and make a data based decision on what advertisement is best to surface.

The Core Associates channel in Traffic focuses on driving customers to Amazon by enlisting 3rd Parties (Associates) to show our product advertisements on their websites. We provide software for anyone to be able to sign up as an Associate, and to be able to include snippets of code in their website that would call our systems to show an advertisement. When a potential customer views the Associate website, web service calls are made to our systems, which then decide which advertisement to show, and provide it back to the Associate website. When the customer clicks on that advertisement, he/she gets redirected to Amazon. As a purchase is made, we record the fact that this customer bought an item on Amazon, and was a referral from the Associate, and we initiate payment to the Associate for directing the customer to Amazon.

As a Sr. Software Dev Manager working in the Core Associates team, you will be responsible for

a) Driving the next set of features that need to be built out on our platform that will bring more revenue to Amazon. You will also be responsible for driving features in the direction of an advertising network product, including doing research on existing advertising products, analyzing data on traffic patterns, feature gap analysis, prioritizing features in an incremental way.

b) In addition to coming up with the product features that need to be implemented, you will also be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture, operational excellence and quality, delivering results on time and working with other software teams in coming up with what software changes need to be implemented in which system, in order for the feature to launch. You will be responsible for clarifying use cases, requirements and milestones.

c) You will be responsible for mentoring and managing a highly skilled set of SDEs, and in providing them career growth opportunities.

d) Technical deep dive, architectural skills, bias for action are a must.

We are looking for talented managers who enjoy working on coming up with new features, product definitions, creative algorithms, helping build large scale systems and who thrive in a fast paced fun environment. Having prior experience in the online industry is a great plus, and prior leadership experience managing managers is a must.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years of relevant work experience in Software Development.

- 7+ years of software management and a proven ability to translate customer needs into business and product requirements.

- Proven analytical and quantitative skills ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop project business cases and deciding the right priority.

- Proven ability to architect large scale systems.

- High attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications.

- Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

- Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs and opportunistic new ideas with technical employees.

- Should be able to think strategically and execute methodically and tactically.

- Superior verbal and written communications skills.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired.

- Composed, poised and professional demeanor.

- History of teamwork and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done.

Amazon.com offers competitive salary, stock grants, health and other benefits.

Let me introduce myself. I am Arun Ashok who works for an executive search firm called Wenger & Watson. Anybody who blends in with the above profile is welcome to mail me or ring me up on my number. Lets have a brief discussion and take things forward.Please note that the above mentioned JD is a generic one.

Arun
+918971856995
arun@wengerwatson.com