Amazon Devices team is looking for an experienced and motivated leader who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and relationship management skills. Our partners develop apps and games for Amazon devices powered by Fire OS and Alexa, such as streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick), Fire Tablets, Echo Show, Smart TVs (e.g. Fire TV Edition), and more. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will work internally with senior product and engineering leaders across the Devices organization and with top-tier partners externally to optimize digital experiences for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
Document best practices and create development resources that can be used by developers

Build reference architecture, frameworks and toolkits to drive adoption at scale

Influence internal engineering prioritization decisions and product roadmaps to best serve both customers and developers

Provide technical consultation to strategic app and game partners

Establish thought leadership externally through written contributions and public speaking

Develop unique, compelling, and exciting presentations and demonstrations of new Amazon technologies

Deliver persuasive, passionate, high impact, high quality presentations to senior decision makers


A day in the life
You will act as the primary technical liaison between external partners and Amazon product teams to help shape their product roadmaps. Your role will be to guide partners as they productize and integrate with Amazon Services and enable them to grow their business through monetization and increase in engagement. You'll evangelize best practices through whitepapers, presentations and sample code. As you build relationships with your partners, you'll understand their business, product roadmap, and challenges. You'll use this information to advocate on their behalf to Amazon product teams, helping improve the feature sets and quality of Amazon products and services.

If you have a passion for the app space, a solid understanding of the technologies involved, and a strong ability to communicate clearly and advocate for partner needs, this role is for you.