Manager, Developer Experience, AWS Developer Experience

AWS Developer Experience is looking for a Manager to lead a team of developer advocates. This team is responsible for how millions of developers learn build with and talk about AWS. Youll own the strategy for how we show up in the developer community through content events and engagement and youll be the connective tissue between what developers (and their agents!) need and what our service teams build.

Youll work across marketing product and engineering to make sure the developer voice shapes our roadmap and that our products land with the people building on AWS every day.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will lead our efforts to engage with developers understand their needs and bring valuable insights back to our service teams. You will collaborate closely with service teams marketing and solutions architects to shape the critical role that developer relations plays in driving innovation and adoption of AWS services. Your expertise in software development architecture and team dynamics will be invaluable as you define our strategy ensuring that we deliver impactful and relevant experiences to the developer community.

As a trusted partner to our service teams you will play a vital role in facilitating product feedback and insights helping to shape the future of AWS services. Your ability to build strong relationships and effectively communicate the voice of the developer will be key to driving continuous improvement and delivering an exceptional developer experience.

A day in the life
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

About the team
AWS Developer Experience exists to make developers love building on AWS. We produce technical content run community programs and show up wherever developers are learning and building. Were a team of builders who ship code write tutorials and speak at conferences. We care about authenticity technical credibility and actually being useful to developers rather than talking at them.

- 5 years of software development experience
- 3 years of team leadership experience
- Experience building developer-facing content or programs

- 5 years of team leadership and development experience
- Track record of building and scaling developer community programs
- Experience working cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to influence roadmaps based on developer feedback

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 151800.00 - 265600.00 USD annually