Sr.Manager,SoftwareDevelopment,AlexaAudio

At Alexa Audio, we own the audio experiences on Alexa enabled devices. These experiences include Music, Podcast, Audio Books, Radio, and Ambient soundscapes. Our integration skill kits enable seamless integration of 1P / 3P audio content providers (e.g., Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple etc.) with Alexa devices. Audio is one of the most widely used experiences on Alexa, and is enjoyed by millions of customers on a daily basis. There is a universe of tens of millions of distinct audio content that is available across streaming services. Using your voice, and timely proactive suggestions are the easiest ways to get to what you want. Alexa makes this magical for customers: ask any Alexa-enabled device to play your favorite song, podcast, book or a station, and Alexa will find the right content for you and play it. We also support being able to control and manage playback across multiple devices, and movement of media playback across them. It is still Day 1 for the audio experiences, and we're looking for a leader to help us make it even better. Key job responsibilities As a Sr Manager, Software Development in the Alexa Audio team, you will be responsible for managing and developing technical teams, charting a long-term technical vision for Audio and other narrative experiences, influencing technical strategy and execution within and outside of Alexa Audio, collaborating with engineering leaders across multiple Amazon organization, and partnering with product and science functions to evolve the customer experience and drive business impact. They will lead technical teams responsible for evolving the Audio experiences on Alexa and monetization initiatives. This role requires a strong track record of earning trust and influencing technical strategy, bringing simple solutions to complex problems, balancing short term delivery with longer term scalability, and building teams from the ground up. The ideal candidate must demonstrate experience leading software engineering teams a