The Amazon Capacity and Topology team determines how many, what kind, and where to place new buildings for Amazon's supply chain worldwide. These facilities range from million-square-foot fulfillment centers with thousands of robots down to inner-city Prime Now facilities serving orders to be fulfilled within an hour. Each year we spend billions on these facilities and expect high-impact results from the network built upon them. That network is expanding faster than ever. This team owns the systems that are critical for managing capacity in Amazon's network for all retail customers on Amazon.com. If you are interested in diving into a multi-discipline, high impact space, this team is for you.
As a highly talented Software Development Manager (SDM), you will lead a team of engineers to design, build, and productionalize tools to fully automate our network topology decisions, utilizing Amazon's massive data, sophisticated algorithms and cloud computation infrastructure (AWS). You'll develop your team of highly motivated and talented builders who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and scientists across the company. You will mentor your team on best practices for building quality software and raising the bar on operational excellence. We are looking for great leaders who think big but enjoy diving deep where required, and who take pride in solving customer problems. You will work closely with senior leaders, scientists, engineers, and business teams worldwide to implement products that use advanced machine learning/mathematical and economic models and algorithms. You are customer obsessed, have good communication skills and are comfortable influencing up and down a large organization, especially at senior levels. You will guide your team to work collaboratively with stakeholders that are spread across locations.
Drive Game-Changing Solutions: Our systems are built entirely in-house and are at the forefront of automated large-scale supply chain planning and optimization. We foster new game-changing ideas, continuously improving and developing sophisticated, intelligent, and self-learning models. Unlike many companies that rely on off-the-shelf planning systems, we study, design, and build systems tailored to Amazon's unique needs, ena

Key job responsibilities
Define the long-term vision, strategy, and goals for your team
• Manage a development team responsible for the technology at the core of Amazon's network topology
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Prioritize, plan projects and features, manage partners, and track external commitments
• Deliver step-change improvements to our suite of tools while keeping an extremely high bar on customer trust
• Foster the career development of your direct reports.

In this role, you will become an expert in the management of the most sophisticated supply chain in the world and develop a deep understanding of Amazon's retail business. You will design and architect systems and expand your technical depth and breadth while defining and driving key aspects of the customer experience on Amazon.com. You will influence the design of our core fulfillment network across multiple organizations and drive decisions with billion-dollar impact to Amazon’s business.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA