The Amazon.com Inventory Planning & Control (IPC) team is looking for a passionate, results oriented, customer oriented technical leader to lead our efforts in building the next generation of software systems for Selection Economics. The team’s charter is to build systems to optimize and fully automate the retail selection and assortment planning decisions.
Our team tackles some of the most mathematically complex inventory management challenges in the industry today to create intelligent algorithms to improve Amazon's inventory & operational efficiency worldwide. IPC owns Amazon’s global inventory planning systems - we decide and optimize what, when, where, and how much we should buy to meet Amazon’s business goals and to make our customers happy. We do this for millions of items, for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory world-wide.
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The successful candidate is one who thrives in a fast-paced environment, has a strong understanding of core software development and algorithmic concepts. The candidate is passionate about technology and wants to solve real business problems. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and expect developers and management alike to take high degree of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. Responsibilities include direct management of software engineers and managers, improvements in process and quality of service, strategic planning, project management, and management of resources across teams. You will act as a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You are proactive in removing roadblocks, pave the way for innovation, and can handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You are an experienced software development leader who understands and sets a high bar for all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You work hand-in-hand with business partners, understand their needs and are able to translate business necessities into value-added features. You are able to handle business escalations with a data-driven approach. You will be responsible for implementing a product vision for IPC-Selection Economics while satisfying scalability, reliability, performance, and budget goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Own and champion engineering and operational excellence through establishment of group-wide metrics for measurement with a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement
Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way
Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon
Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives
Raise the bar on functionality, flow, consistency, usability, and simplicity continually; guard the world-class supply chain experience at Amazon
Mentor and promote your team members
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