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Contact: chetta-resumes@amazon.com
Years Experience: 5
Education Required: Four-Year Degree
Job Level: Mid-Career
Total Compensation: Competitive

Job Description:

Director of Technology, Online Marketing (www.amazon.com/associates)

The Amazon.com Associates program seeks a highly qualified Director of Technology to lead integrated business and technical teams to drive innovation and operational excellence in the core Associates Platform.

With its network of over one million affiliates, the Associates Program is a leader in online marketing, providing double-digit contribution to traffic and revenue at Amazon properties across the globe. This position is responsible for the creation, optimization, and support of competitive and functional tools, services, and operational processes to increase Associates' productivity, satisfaction, and loyalty. Functional ownership includes rapid innovation of ad-serving technology, enhancement of reporting, payment, and fraud detection services, leadership of software development practices and standards, improvement of service level performance, and operational cost reduction. Team composition includes software development, web development, business managers, technical product/program managers, and operational staff.

The ideal candidate is an experienced, independent, highly technical, hands-on manager with a proven track record of architecting and implementing large-scale software services, managing customer-facing operational functions, and leading integrated technical and business teams. Candidates must demonstrate experienced leadership of the software development life cycle, from product conception through delivery, and the ability to meet aggressive schedules. Technical expertise in high performance transactional systems, relational databases in a Linux/C++/Oracle environment, distributed networks, OO language and design, performance tuning/scaling, and quality assurance techniques is required.

Our Ideal Candidate:

Familiarity with Java/JSP, JavaScript, Perl, Mason, CSS, XSLT, HTML and other Web technologies is extremely helpful.

In addition to technical aptitude, the ideal candidate will be highly analytical and detail-oriented, demonstrate strong business judgment, communicate effectively, be intellectually curious, and remain calm in the face of fast-moving, hectic environments. Experience making investment tradeoff decisions, designing and implementing effective policies, setting and meeting standards for operational performance, and figuring out how to "delight customers" consistently is also required.

BSc in Computer Science required; MS in Computer Science and MBA are preferred. Passion for excellence a must.

Amazon.com
work hard, have fun, make history

We employ some of the world's brightest and most innovative minds in software, working on event-driven fulfillment planning, optimal content selection, product recommendation algorithms, guaranteed interprocess messaging, and the list goes on and on. Whether you're scaling our world-class supply chain systems or you're architecting an ecommerce platform that big name retailers (Target and Toys 'R Us, for example) depend on to run their online businesses - you'll find challenging work that'll stretch you on multiple dimensions.

At Amazon, we ship software continuously, so you'll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks not years. Amazon has an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals' innovative ideas are prized and routinely make history. Because you'll be on a small cross-functional team that is responsible for both business and technology decisions, you'll never want for understanding the relationship between what you're working on and the ultimate business value that is being created.

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and is now the world's leading ecommerce technology company. Amazon.com seeks exceptionally well-qualified candidates and offers competitive compensation and benefits.