Head of Creator Technologies

About the role

Audible’s Head of Creator Technologies is responsible for strategy, product, and execution in emerging technologies to scale creator offerings in support of Audible’s catalog expansion goals. The role will also work closely with partners in Audible’s Content organization to support and enhance Audible Creator eXchange (ACX) and new creator products. This role will work closely with Amazon partner organizations to leverage skillsets and technologies to deliver innovative technical solutions for creators.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy and lead the full product and delivery life cycle of emerging creator technologies
• Work at both the strategic and tactical level to champion bold, innovative creator solutions
• Have ownership over creator stack tool decisions, technical implementation, resource & roadmap planning and issue remediation
• Manage the complete software development lifecycle: defining, prioritizing, designing, and leading implementation and testing of new features within an Agile environment
• Partner effectively with all levels of leadership and with key stakeholders in Marketing, Content, Legal, and Amazon partner teams
• Influence through data-driven business cases to drive decisions
• Represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential strategies clearly to executives to help them understand the decisions they have to make
• Constantly strive to raise the bar on delivery, operational excellence, performance, and quality in a fast-paced agile environment
• Define, manage, and improve the software and product development processes by working closely with high-performance builders
• Coach and mentor our high-performing architects and engineers to help them grow their skills, enhance their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done, while enabling them to be future leaders who are focused on building a high growth and inclusive culture
• Architect and develop the innovative technical design and implementation approach with the overall product line goals and objectives in mind
• Own team’s operational excellence, including creation of and monitoring of metrics and alarms in a continuous process improvement environment
• Be a passionate builder of talent and teams: hire, coach, and mentor builders on the team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
• 15+ years of industry experience in software development
• 5+ years of experience building, managing and developing software engineering teams and 3+ years of managing multiple managers of teams
• Prior experience as a software engineer including experience designing and coding highly scalable, available and low latency services
• Experience in driving new feature prioritization, development, and delivery
• Experience collaborating with and influencing technical leaders
• Experience in creating communication strategies that engage and impact internal and external stakeholders
• Professional experience in setting up end-to-end marketing technology stacks, marketing automation programs, and data flows
• Experience working with customer data platforms, tag management platforms, web analytics tools and marketing automation tools