Software Development Manager, Organizational Planning and Effectiveness (OPE) - Dallas

Job Description

As part of the Amazon-wide Global Talent Management and Compensation team, the Organizational Planning and Effectiveness team’s mission is to enable Amazon to build healthy and effective organizations with the right leaders, in the right roles, at the right time. We develop philosophies, mechanisms and products that guide leaders to inspect and make data-driven decisions to improve their organizational operating models, structures, and executive talent. A successful candidate will be technically deep with an established background in developing highly performant and available services, have great communication skills, the ability to shape the structure and grow the skills of their team, and be motivated to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment. As a member of the team, you will be responsible for leading the design of the system architecture, the development and launch of core product features, promoting code quality and best practices and driving operational excellence. You are passionate about the customer experience, take pride in building high quality software, and have a demonstrable track record of successfully delivering new features and products. You value collaboration, making data-driven decisions, and can comfortably communicate with others, in both technical and non-technical roles. We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing tremendous ownership over product and technology direction.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.


Key job responsibilities
· Define, execute and deliver on a vision and roadmap for your team.
· Consistent focus on operational excellence of systems.
· Hire, coach and mentor SDEs.
· Develop long-term technical and business strategies.

A day in the life
• Focus on building, not operating - As we look to reimagine the executive talent management experience, we are beginning from a clean slate. No tech debt, no legacy code, Just clearly defined goals and S-Team support. We focus on building things, not operating.
• We use the entire AWS Stack - This is exciting. We leverage the latest and best from the AWS stack to realize our vision of building a seamless experience.
• Work hard, Make a difference - We have fun along the way. As much as we like to connect for our work meetings, we also connect regularly to have meet & greets.


About the team
The Organizational Planning and Effectiveness team formed in November 2023 to create a single-threaded focus within Global Talent Management and Compensation. The team owns two enterprise-wide products: Rise, a succession planning product that helps leaders identify talent for critical roles and plan for future talent moves; and Blueprint, an organizational design product in prototype that helps leaders rapidly model alternate scenarios for structures, roles, and reporting relationships. The team is building a new enterprise-wide executive talent management product that helps leaders translate business strategy into executive talent needs, then identify, develop, and match successors to the right roles. This growing team partners with Research Science, UX Design, and additional talent management teams across the company to build innovative experiences for Amazon’s leaders and their HR partners.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dallas, TX, USA

Basic Qualifications:

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.