Principal Solutions Architect, Alexa Skills Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Help mold the future of Alexa skills. If you have the right blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity, you may just be right for the Principal Solutions Architect role on the Alexa Skills Kit team. In this role, you will be working with some of the top-tier companies & developers to help develop incredible experiences that will wow customers using the Alexa platform on a variety Amazon products. You will also work directly with Engineering leaders to ensure new feature launches meet the expectations of these key developers.

You must have hands-on development experience. Your responsibilities will include owning key technical relationships and driving the ultimate success of partner projects. You will be the "face of Amazon" with key partners and drive discussions with senior technical leaders/CxO in those organizations. You will also be able to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges and map the intersection of partner needs and Amazon priorities. The ideal candidate will possess excellent customer engagement and communication skills as well as the technical background to fluently interact and provide guidance to software developers and architects.

Key Responsibilities:

* Work across Amazon Engineering teams to shape and launch new Alexa Skill features and Echo devices.
* Provides technical consultation to strategic development partners
* Actively identify opportunities to deliver experiences that demonstrate what is possible on Amazon devices and services
* Developing unique, compelling and exciting presentations and demonstrations of new Amazon technologies
* Document best practices and create development resources that can be used by other developers
* Build reference architecture, frameworks and tool-kits to drive scale of adoption in the ecosystem