Software Development Manager, Books Discovery

Job description

Passionate about books and reading? Books have a long history at Amazon; books were our first retail product, we reinvented reading with Kindle, and today we enable reading across a multitude of surfaces and content types. The Books Content Demand team helps readers find books and authors through relevant content, search results and recommendations, and innovative shopping experiences. We set audacious goals and are looking for people who can help us transform the way we engage with readers and help them find their next book.

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a collection of skilled, friendly people from all over the world and collaborate with business owners to build a clear roadmap of priorities that serve our customers. You own implementing the mechanisms that ensure timely deliveries that are of the highest quality. You are responsible for developing your people, and for managing their performance and careers. You will have significant agency to decide the priorities of the team in order to balance operational excellence and new customer deliveries, and you will contribute to the mechanisms that help manage stakeholder expectations and garner support for your future investments.

If you love books, are a strong engineering leader, and you're excited to navigate ambiguous spaces to identify new opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.