Amazon Advertising Operations Automations Leader, Advertising Services - PIE

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DESCRIPTION :

The Advertising Services team is looking to hire a manager for AI based automation, to lead and develop the existing capability with the right skills and talent, and develop an automation roadmap aligned to the digital transformation journey for Advertising Services. This is an exciting opportunity to join an area which touches every aspect of Amazon's wide range of businesses.

This role reports will be part of the Process Improvement and Engineering (PIE) team and provide leadership, vision, and solutions to build and drive the execution of the process automation roadmap. It requires a balance of strategy, deep technology acumen, execution, and bringing together the business and technology perspectives to build rapid delivery of automations. The role focuses on long-term business technology objectives and targeted business outcomes by clarifying automation technology capabilities, assessing and mitigating security risks and ensuring platform scalability.

To be successful in this role, a candidate should be able to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, be well versed in identifying opportunities for operational efficiencies and managing tools / systems for use in the creative marketing and advertising operations space. They should have experience in building and leading an automations engineering team, with deep knowledge of Amazon Bedrock AI services, industry knowledge of AI development, and a passion for learning / maintaining current knowledge in Gen AI. They should be able to function / organization to develop process automation roadmap to simplify and improve the process efficiencies and effectiveness. The candidate will manage global projects with multiple deliverables in a timely fashion and ensure all deadlines are met across teams and key stakeholders. They will demonstrate strong ownership and bias for action, remain proactive with strategic solutions, collaborate across internal teams and stakeholders, and maintain clear and concise communication across all levels of leadership. An ideal candidate will have superior verbal and written communication skills, experience educating technical and non-technical stakeholders and working across multiple teams and regions, be able to independently manage programs and create tactical plans from ambiguous challenges, and know how to escalate in a solutions-oriented manner.

Key job responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership related to using GenAI to enable automated advertising campaign setup and management capabilities
• Learn and stay current with technical developments in the field of AI and in particular Amazon AI services, share and teach team members on this tech
• Lead a team of highly talented It App Dev & Sys Dev engineers responsible for managing all aspects of mission-critical systems
• Partner with business stakeholder and product managers around GenAI capability communication / articulation, translate technical jargon and methodologies to business absorb able language
• Review and approve engineering design and perform code reviews
• Research and drive new and innovative AI / ML approaches
• Enforce a high bar for operational excellence of the team's services
• Recruit high performing team members, and provide them mentorship and coaching
• Establish team mechanisms for project planning, product development, engineering excellence, operational excellence (dev ops), and team building mechanisms.
• A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing and operating platforms and services, developing and hiring extraordinary talent, have strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.

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