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The Content and App Partner Engagement team within Amazon Devices 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 video and voice-enabled 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, curiosity to learn and a strong ability to communicate clearly and advocate for partner needs, join our team!
Key Responsibilities: - Provide technical consultation to strategic app partners
- Create policies and establish processes for supporting app 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
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications or infrastructures
- 8+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical field
- 5+ 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.
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