Overview
Interested in Amazon Alexa, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence? We’re building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Alexa and other Amazon products and services. Come join us! The Alexa AI Natural Language Understanding team in Italy is seeking a talented, self‑directed Software Development Manager (SDM) to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of language solutions and machine learning. The SDM will help us pioneer new machine learning tools and processes through an iterative research and development cycle. You will build scalable, self‑serve applications for use across the Alexa AI organization. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy as you work with a small team of subject matter experts and engineers to define features, system architecture, and best practices.
Key Job Responsibilities

Hire and develop the best. You will help grow and develop a team of engineers, growing their careers and empowering them to achieve amazing things.
Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team identify technical and product requirements and opportunities.
Use project management and prioritization skills to balance long and short‑term goals and deliver on your product roadmap.
Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions and lead your team to evolve and scale our service architecture.
Drive continual improvements: set and iteratively improve team processes and mechanisms to make sure the right things get prioritized and work gets done efficiently.

A Day in the Life
A mix of helping the team architect our systems for massive scale, drive efficiency in our software development processes, career coaching and mentorship, collaborating with sister teams, and interviewing.
About the Team
The team is based in Turin (IT), while peer teams are in Bangalore (IN) and Boston (US). Turin, in its inner metropolitan area of 1.7 million people, has world‑class automotive, automation, aerospace, and banking companies. Housing cost is low and the region offers recreational opportunities ranging from opera to the Italian Riviera, the wine area of Barolo, and mountain sport in the Olympic Mountains.
Qualifications

7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
Experience building highly‑scalable distributed systems
Experience delivering software projects using Agile / Scrum methodologies
A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross‑functional projects
Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent
Experience operating large software systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
Experience working on natural language processing or machine learning based systems
Experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Accommodation
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