There are now more than 1.3 million Amazonians worldwide. As part of People eXperience and Technology organization, the Global Talent Management team’s mission is to create innovative, science-based, and inclusive products and experiences for all Amazonians to help us become “Earth’s Best Employer.” We are a team of tenured Amazonians with a diverse set of skills and experiences. We collaborate closely, bringing our expertise together to create a world-class employee experience and maintaining Amazon's peculiar culture at scale.

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead an engineering team to deliver on critical cross-team and cross VP organizational projects. You will have the opportunity to set the vision, drive the technology decisions, and shape the direction of this business. This role requires deep technical expertise, excellent communication and leadership skills, and strong ownership. You will be responsible for building services that are critical to how Amazon operates on a global level, and partner with product management, engineering teams, and senior leaders to ensure the success of the team and the product experience.

As a Software Development manager, you will identify, hire and build world-class teams of Software Engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision. You will create processes that enable the teams to collaborate with local as well as global teams with a high degree of efficiency. You will develop teams of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate with Project Managers, Product Managers and Software Engineers across the company on this high impact initiative.



Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact
- Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals.
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
- Project management - prioritization , planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
- Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services
- Career management and development of direct reports
He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to hit market is super critical. They would need to also balance technical leadership with savvy business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.