Sr Mgr, Hardware Planning Job in Seattle, Washington US

Sr Mgr, Hardware Planning

Title: Sr Mgr, Hardware Planning Company: Amazon Location: Seattle, WA Job Status / Type: Reference Code: 167129 Contact Information Company: Amazon URL: www.amazon.com Amazon hires people from all types of backgrounds, into positions based all over the world. We recruit the best and Brightest. Come Make History With Us! At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of our DNA. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them an environment in which they can relentlessly improve the experience for customers. We do this every day by solving complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun. Sr Mgr, Hardware Planning Job Description Amazon Retail is creating a new hardware planning team focused on the enablement of business growth, software service architecture, and AWS hosting for our hardware systems around the world. This is a highly visible role within Amazon with executive visibility and accountability. We are looking for a senior manager who will lead a team of program managers and solution architects working with a large variety of interesting and unique software teams across all of Amazon. A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, outstanding leadership skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for an experienced senior manager to drive defining and rollouts of scaling metrics for our software services, migration into AWS, and overseeing and coordinating our hardware fleets. The ideal candidate will demonstrate executive maturity, a passion for working on behalf of teams and customers and the ability to operate independently and autonomously. Maturity, judgment, negotiation skills, influence and leadership skills are all essential. The broad responsibilities of the team will include end-to-end ownership of projects in the functional area: generating product ideas, researching options, building project proposal, prioritizing on behalf of the customer, writing the design specifications, creation of best practices and whitepapers, and driving execution. Also required is demonstrated success in planning and scheduling projects and general knowledge of architectures and distributed solutions. The applicant will possess senior project management experience in a fast moving business with a track record of on-time delivery enabling them to generate quality business case support and analysis of projects. RetailSystemsJobs Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of Senior Management or similar experience working closely with technology teams and in driving platform strategy - Proven experience handling large scale matrix project to success (execution focus) - Proven management experience including ability to recruit and grow a new team - Experience in managing multiple projects and people from concept to completion on time, in a fast-paced environment - General knowledge of distributed systems and software services - Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to tailor communications to various levels of management - Bachelors degree in CS or related discipline Preferred Qualifications Distributed system architecture experience Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and analytical thinking skills Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to have fun! Demonstrable ability to communicate and influence on executive level Posted Date: 3/19/2012 Company: Amazon Corporate LLC E-mail Address: Forgot your password? Password: Login Not a member yet? Sign up now for your FREE Dice Account! Rate Job Positive Neutral Negative Misrepresented job Pays below market level Not a real job Position no longer available Other Please Provide an Explanation (400 character limit) Security Check: The question below helps prevent the use of automated programs. Sixty, 8, twenty two or 98: which of these is the largest? Refresh Question Follow Amazon Connect with Amazon