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Amazon Mobile is one of Amazon’s fastest growing new businesses and is focused on building world-class customer experiences in all Amazon locales worldwide. Focused on mobile commerce, the team builds, launches, and manages Amazon's mobile business on mobile websites and apps across all smartphone and tablet platforms. Some of our recent launches included; Windowshop for iPad, Price check by Amazon, Amazon Deals, and the award winning Amazon Mobile family of applications. Amazon’s experience in retail, technology, digital content, and mobile services provides a strong foundation for future development in this arena, and we’re moving aggressively to build new and innovative solutions for our customers worldwide.
As Director, Mobile Web you will build and lead a worldwide cross functional team (including software development, product management, and operations) focused on defining and building new features and experiences for Amazon's mobile websites as well as building new ones as you see new opportunities. You will be responsible for the overall vision, product strategy, software architecture, roadmap, and resulting business. You will play a key role in developing and communicating the strategy and vision for the mobile group worldwide. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively with cross-functional peers, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies and capabilities into high quality, simple products and applications that delight customers. As an experienced leader, you’re expected to roll up your sleeves and directly take on challenging technical and customer experience assignments, and play a key role in partner negotiations and integration with other Amazon teams. Because you will be leading both the business and technical side of a very strategic and important business for Amazon, you will need to have experience in working closely with engineers, product managers and UI designers and building world class customer experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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
- Lead the development of the product strategy and vision supported by internal data and external analysis
- Work closely with a team of UI and visual designers to develop world class customer experiences
- Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key partners
- Define creative, high quality, simple product requirements and roadmaps based on product strategy
- Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support requirements
- Work closely with engineering teams, design, and program management in an agile environment to deliver products to market. Manage delivery of current products concurrently with future product planning.
- Stay current and report on industry trends, including new opportunities, competitor capabilities, etc.
- Drive product launches including working with public relations, executives, and other team members
- Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
- Recruit and develop top-tier talent
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Ability to think and move quickly in a fast changing environment and bring their team along with them.
- High attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically. Strong team-orientation.
- Superior verbal and written communications skills. Demonstrated ability to lead teams.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired.
- Personal passion for (and early adopter of) emerging consumer technologies.
- Committed to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge.
- Successful history of shipping innovative products that consumers love
- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
- Willingness to roll up their sleeves and do whatever is necessary; general manager / owner mentality
- Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding the product, our business, and the competitive landscape
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