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Software Development Manager, Weblab

Amazon · Seattle, Washington, USA · On-site

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Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Madrona.

About the role

We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager to lead the team that powers A/B testing at Amazon, guiding builders from setup through execution, analysis, launching, reporting, and learning. The team owns the experimentation process end-to-end, driving Amazon's innovation cycle through rapid evaluation of ideas. The manager of this team is the single threaded owner of the experimentation process.

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We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager to lead the team that powers A/B testing at Amazon, guiding builders from setup through execution, analysis, launching, reporting, and learning. The team owns the experimentation process end-to-end, driving Amazon's innovation cycle through rapid evaluation of ideas. The manager of this team is the single threaded owner of the experimentation process.

Key job responsibilities

Work backwards from customers. The experimentation leader is the single threaded owner of running randomized experiments at Amazon. The SDM must closely understand the customer problems to ensure we're working backwards from the most critical customer needs.

Work closely with Science. Weblab is fundamentally a science and engineering product with neither able to operate at maximum effectiveness without the other.

Relentlessly Prioritize. The team will receive far more asks for things to build and to support away teams than we can feasibly support.

Trade off technical decisions. The team will be faced with high stakes technical tradeoff decisions. The SDM needs to listen to the opinions and recommendations of their tech leads while being able to make a...

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