Senior Software Development Manager, Alexa Automotive Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Do you like Amazon Alexa and have a passion for cars? The Alexa Automotive team is bringing these together to provide seamless voice experiences for customers with Alexa in the car. Our mission is to push the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), and personal mobility in order to provide the best possible customer experience when in a vehicle.

As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will lead our "Bring Your Own Alexa" strategy, building mobile Alexa experiences and launching new Alexa-enabled automotive accessories for customers. You will be responsible for leading multiple teams of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of automotive speech products. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems.

Key Responsibilities:

* Experience designing and developing complex, interactive customer experiences.
* Experience as a leader of leaders
* Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle
* Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
* Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
* Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
* Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management