WW Tech Leader, Games TFC, AWS for Games - San Francisco | Amazon Job

Job Description

Are you passionate about the games industry and ready to shape how game studios and publishers build on the cloud? AWS is looking for a Worldwide Technical Leader to own the global technical direction for the Games sub-industry within the Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports (MEGS) organization. In this role, you will operate as the industry domain technical strategist, coordinating with business leadership to translate strategy into community action across a global Technical Field Community (TFC).

This is a dedicated individual contributor leadership role with no direct reports. You will lead through influence, earning the trust of community members across organizations and mobilizing them toward shared priorities. Your work will include prioritizing the use cases that matter most to games customers, organizing builders to create reusable solutions, resolving industry-specific technical requests at scale, incubating technical content, representing AWS at major games industry events, and growing the next generation of games specialists across the field. Success in this role means games customers get the right solutions faster, account teams are equipped to win, and AWS strengthens its position as the platform of choice for the games industry.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the global technical direction for the Games community, partnering with business leadership to align field insights to strategy, prioritizing use cases and customer needs that guide the technical field community outputs.
- Serve as the technical voice of the games market to AWS service teams, product managers, and go-to-market leaders, gathering customer pain points, emerging trends, and competitive intelligence from field engagements and translating them into structured product and roadmap input.
- Drive the creation and scaling of reusable technical artifacts — solutions, workshops, reference architectures, and guidance packages — aligned to prioritized games use cases, and set the quality bar for all games-related technical content published by the community.
- Lead AWS technical presence at major games industry events such as GDC, Gamescom, and re:Invent, owning session strategy, delivering keynotes, and engaging executive-level stakeholders at strategic games customers and partners.
- Grow and scale games industry expertise across the field by packaging successful customer engagements into repeatable solution architectures, sponsoring onboarding pathways, and mentoring generalist solutions architects into credible games practitioners.

A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing account plans with a regional lead to identify where games customers need deeper technical engagement, then join a sync with service leadership to share field feedback on a product roadmap. After lunch, you could be reviewing a reference architecture that a community member built for a game backend use case, providing guidance before it gets published. Later, you are preparing keynote content for an upcoming industry conference and connecting with an account team to help shape a technical win strategy for a strategic customer evaluation.

About the team
The MEGS team operates four industry-aligned Technical Field Communities (Media & Entertainment, Games, Advertising & Marketing Technology, and Betting & Gaming). These communities are the connective tissue between deep domain expertise and field execution at scale. Leadership for the Games Technical Field Community sits within MEGS and brings together the builders from cross cutting technical organizations across AWS who share a passion for the games industry and converge around shared industry challenges to solve customer challenges with field scalable solutions. Our closest partners include the Games sub-industry business leader, AWS service teams, product marketing, go-to-market and account teams worldwide. If you want to combine deep games industry knowledge with the reach and resources of AWS to help customers build what is next, we would love to hear from you.

Basic Qualifications:

- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
- Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc), or experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops), or experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Knowledge of game infrastructure, backend services and Game Servers (including the GameLift family of services).
- Knowledge of cloud game development like game engines, build pipelines, and cloud-native development workflows for games.

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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