Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Devices team is looking for an experienced and motivated leader who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and relationship management skills. Our partners develop apps and games for Amazon devices powered by Fire OS and Alexa, such as Fire tablets, Echo Show, Smart TVs (e.g. Fire TV Edition), and streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick). As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you will work with top-tier partners to create incredible voice-enabled mobile experiences that will wow customers. You will act as the primary technical liaison between external partners and Amazon product teams to help shape their product roadmaps. Your role will be to guide partners as they productize and integrate with Amazon Services and enable them to grow their business through monetization and increase in engagement. You'll evangelize best practices through whitepapers, presentations and sample code. As you build relationships with your partners, you'll understand their business, product roadmap, and challenges. You'll use this information to advocate on their behalf to Amazon product teams, helping improve the feature sets and quality of Amazon products and services.

If you have a passion for the app space, a solid understanding of the technologies involved, and a strong ability to communicate clearly and advocate for partner needs, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities:
Provide technical consultation to strategic app and game partners
Create policies and establish processes for supporting app and game developers

Develop unique, compelling, and exciting presentations and demonstrations of new Amazon technologies

Deliver persuasive, passionate, high impact, high quality presentations to senior decision makers

Document best practices and create development resources that can be used by developers

Build reference architecture, frameworks and toolkits to drive adoption at scale

Manage complex projects with significant impact

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical field
8+ years of mobile, software, or experience in a technical role
3+ years experience evangelizing technologies and building/maintaining developer relations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences at the C level
Experience developing and launching apps or games, particularly for Android or iOS
Experience with two or more development languages (Java, Kotlin etc) or game engines (Unity, Cocos2dx etc)
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results
Proven ability to build and maintain executive level relationships
Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, innovative, and rapidly evolving industry and business organization
Strong problem-solving skills; the ability to analyze problems and develop actionable and dedicated plans quickly
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills

Job is available for multiple locations - Irvine, San Francisco, Seattle.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority / Women / Disability /Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.