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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Head of Creator Technologies - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $264,100.0 - $350,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Customer Data Management, Automation of Marketing, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Tag Management, Web Analytics, Information Technology, Low Latency, Data Analytics, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control - **Published:** July 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/81A5CB12A6B9402EA78F3DADEBE18BF5/job/ ## About the Role You are curious, innovative and entrepreneurial, you stay on top of tools, trends, technologies and best practices. You have a passion for marketing and the related industry technologies and challenges and the expertise, strategic thinking, technical depth, and leadership skills needed to play a crucial leadership role in driving Creator technologies and innovations. You embrace ambiguity and aren't afraid of changing directions if something isn't working out. You will lead an product engineering team focused on emerging AI capabilities (we could even leave AI out if there are any concerns as "emerging technologies" works) that reach current and future creators globally., * 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, * Demonstrated ability to build, motivate and retain high-performance engineering teams while leading engineering culture change * 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 * Keeps up to date on AI innovations that align with our business goals * Experienced with building and architecting on AWS * Experience being a manager of managers, growing managers to scale with the needs of the organization and working through others to accomplish the day-to-day work of the organization * Demonstrated ability to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment * Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations * Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively across teams & multiple division stakeholders * Results oriented and with a strong customer focus * Highly autonomous * Delivers with little guidance ## Description 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. As per Audible's People Principles: "We obsessively focus on other key stakeholders as if they are customers too: We serve the writers, actors, and other creative professionals who craft the words we deliver, as well as the people who live in the communities where we work. At Audible, we prize the capacity to see the world through others' eyes." Audible will continue to innovate on behalf our creators, finding new ways to attract and engage them. This role will lead a team of high-performing builders to deliver on Audible's ambitious creator products and will help further establish Audible as the leader of the spoken word category we created. This role will also serve as Audible's Hub Lead in Cambridge, Massachusetts to ensure cultural continuity across Audible as well as localizing Audible's Activate Caring mission. This is a senior leadership role directly reporting into Audible's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Audible's People Principles celebrate who we are and where we've been, and guide the way we work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of our millions of customers. Our diverse team depends on differing backgrounds and perspectives to foster robust conversations that lead us to the right solutions for our customers., * 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 ## Related Videos - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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