We are looking for a senior leader to build and lead the team in designing, architecting and delivering a new product in the HR domain. Is that you? How can you tell? Well, you are passionate about producing innovative products to be able to transform and govern modern applications. You also love giving customers what they want: high quality, highly usable, always-on services. And you're happiest when you're guiding empowered, world-class managers and engineers to meet world-class challenges. You are passionate about outlining technical vision and moving innovation in your team and the industry forward.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business, tactical to system goals to specific interfaces. You don't shrink from the spotlight, able to coordinate cross-org meetings, field difficult questions, and create positive collaborative outcomes. You are adept at directing engineering and operations, evaluating research and writing documents for an executive audience. You ensure solutions are reliable, scalable and secure.

You will have an enormous opportunity to impact experience, design, architecture, and implementation of leading-edge products that will be used every day by people and influence industry and industry standards. No matter what the role, we’re looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of ownership and want to have fun while they make history.

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. SDM, you are empowered to:

• Own vision, strategy planning, prioritization, driving architectural decisions, and end-to-end project delivery.
• Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs balancing the business needs versus constraints.
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.
• Manage careers of talented engineers and managers, including making great hiring decisions, setting goals, providing feedback and managing performance.
• Develop best practices to build and operate critical platform services.
• Your teams will have highly challenging problems of scale and complexity, that requires a high power team of principal engineers and tech leads.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually