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Director, Software Develoopment
Amazon
Beijing, , China
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DESCRIPTION
Position Summary:
Are you passionate about deliver high-impact, cross-functional, customer facing projects across all over the world? Are you a business, product, and technical leader – comfortable in the boardroom as well as in the programming pits and drilling into technical architecture and design? Do you want to invent, develop and deliver state of the art technology to meet the demanding market requirement? Can you lead across organizational and functional boundaries to get business objectives accomplished that enables a win-win situations by leveraging the full organizational capabilities. Amazon's China is looking for a Director of Software Development to build and lead cutting edge projects to improve the core online shopping experience. We have built an awesome team and need someone to continue to take the team to new heights.
Key Responsibilities:
To address the opportunity in China, we need a technology leader who can leverage the Amazon global technology platform, influence teams to make changes necessary for the Chinese customer, and innovate ahead of the global platform to address use cases not yet well served by our platform. This leader has to stretch his influence beyond just a single Amazon technical organization and understand Website Customer Experience, Operations (Supply Chain, Fulfillment Centers and Transportation), Retail Systems, Site Availability, and Infrastructure. He has to be able to provide direction and leadership and drive solutions for Customer problems across different technical and business organizations.
This leader has to be flexible and comfortable in dealing with ambiguity in the role. There is no special China website, nor is there a special China retail system. Hence, this leader has to be flexible and open to multiple modes of addressing opportunities, whether is to use the global platform with minimal changes; or to sponsor creating a local team that reports to the global team; or to fully build a local solution. This leader also owns overall China website Customer Experience, Availability, and Latency.
This leader is expected to advise and teach local leaders on global technology capabilities and contacts, as well as advise global technical and business leaders on issues that would affect rollout of new capabilities and businesses in China. This leader needs to be able to develop and build other leaders.
The current direct scope includes website experience and retail backend systems.
Key Objectives:
Success of this organization is based on the ability of the systems to work well across the breadth of products we deal with in all countries, across all product lines.
• Define strategy and roadmap for adapting the Amazon Retail website and other Amazon Retail systems for the Chinese market.
• Identify opportunities, drive experimentation and deliver new products for the China market.
• Expand successful China experiments globally
• Advocate with global technical teams to focus and solve China customer and retail problems
• Advise China business teams on technical direction to achieve business objectives
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering and product teams
• Management of departmental resources, hiring, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering and research scientists
Focus and Deliverables First 12 Months
The Director of Software Development, China will be expected to achieve the following:
• Drive significant usability innovations and improvements in Amazon China Retail Website, the Amazon Retail Systems, and the availability of the Amazon’s China Retail site.
• Align global technical teams
• Develop a technical roadmap to adopt the global retail website to better suit the Chinese customer and the global retail systems to better suit the Chinese market.
• Develop tools and obtain data for retail vendor managers to dramatically increase selection in non-media product lines.
• Work with business leaders to identify technical challenges unique to each product line or segment, develop a roadmap and execute on a roadmap of system improvements and new products to address them.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Educational Backgrounds:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field is a must.
MS, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics etc. is preferred.
Experience:
• Proven product development experience in consumer-focused companies
• Successful experience designing and developing complex, interactive customer experiences.
• Experience building complex systems
• Experience managing large software development teams
• Development experience in OOP, Java, UNIX, Perl, C++, XML, Web services, and UNIX tools
• Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
• Hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
• Ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage changing priorities
• Ability to drive initiatives to completion in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Retail Forecasting and procurement experience, Background in statistics, data mining and large scale technology development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Personal Qualities
Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Hires great people. Develops great people.
• Has relentlessly high standards
• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
• Thinks big and has convictions
• Results oriented
• Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others