What are the responsibilities and job description for the Developer Evangelist, Amazon Devices position at Amazon?
Description
Amazon Content and App Partner Engagement (CAPE), the team behind the experience for Fire TVs, Alexa Developers, and the Amazon Appstore is looking for a Developer Evangelist.
The Developer Evangelist will join an experienced organization responsible for engaging with the Alexa, Apps, and Games developer community. In this role, you’ll combine your passion and enthusiasm for technology with your unmatched creativity to generate attention and support for Amazon devices among developers, key industry opinion makers and technologists.
Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a mobile software, web, and/or games developer background and has desire to educate the developer community on the adoption of Amazon-centric technologies like Living-room experiences and Media Streaming Apps development on Amazon Fire TV, Alexa, Games, and related services. You have immediate credibility with App and Games Developers, Solution Architects, Product Managers and C-level stakeholders. You love to share your passion with others and exhibit good judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.
If you like building with the latest consumer tech, are passionate about building apps and games, and love to engage with the developer community… This is the role you're looking for!
Key job responsibilities
Be the advocate and voice of developers internally at Amazon, representing their needs within the company.
Developing and delivering compelling presentations, product demos, sample solutions, and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of Amazon device-centric technologies.
Gaining industry recognition and credibility as attendee, panelist and keynote speaker at Amazon and 3P technology conferences, hackathons, workshops and events.
Continuing to identify leads for potential partnerships, open source, and community engagement opportunities.
Collaborating with internal teams to define the product road map, dogfooding upcoming launches, user groups, and developer program initiatives.
Creating and maintaining samples, guides, talks, videos about Amazon Apps, Games, and Alexa services along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
A day in the life
You'll work alongside a broad array of colleagues including frontend developers, backend engineers, product managers, solution architects, and marketing teams.
As a Developer Evangelist, you’ll build relationships with app and game builders around the world while building in public. Each week you'll have new opportunities to create samples, write dev articles, and try new APIs and SDKs.
About The Team
The Developer Evangelism team is focused on enabling developers at scale through 1:many education. We focus on educating developers by crafting technical content such as articles, tutorials, code samples and case studies.
We contribute and participate in developer meetups, workshops, conferences, podcasts, livestreams, hackathons, and office hours.
Our team is made up of PR, Media, and Speaker trained developers that focus on building and delivering technical content directly to developers. We work closely with the Digital Marketing and Product teams to define the Go-To-Market strategies for upcoming Amazon devices and services.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2921102
Amazon Content and App Partner Engagement (CAPE), the team behind the experience for Fire TVs, Alexa Developers, and the Amazon Appstore is looking for a Developer Evangelist.
The Developer Evangelist will join an experienced organization responsible for engaging with the Alexa, Apps, and Games developer community. In this role, you’ll combine your passion and enthusiasm for technology with your unmatched creativity to generate attention and support for Amazon devices among developers, key industry opinion makers and technologists.
Ideally, you’re someone who comes from a mobile software, web, and/or games developer background and has desire to educate the developer community on the adoption of Amazon-centric technologies like Living-room experiences and Media Streaming Apps development on Amazon Fire TV, Alexa, Games, and related services. You have immediate credibility with App and Games Developers, Solution Architects, Product Managers and C-level stakeholders. You love to share your passion with others and exhibit good judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.
If you like building with the latest consumer tech, are passionate about building apps and games, and love to engage with the developer community… This is the role you're looking for!
Key job responsibilities
Be the advocate and voice of developers internally at Amazon, representing their needs within the company.
Developing and delivering compelling presentations, product demos, sample solutions, and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of Amazon device-centric technologies.
Gaining industry recognition and credibility as attendee, panelist and keynote speaker at Amazon and 3P technology conferences, hackathons, workshops and events.
Continuing to identify leads for potential partnerships, open source, and community engagement opportunities.
Collaborating with internal teams to define the product road map, dogfooding upcoming launches, user groups, and developer program initiatives.
Creating and maintaining samples, guides, talks, videos about Amazon Apps, Games, and Alexa services along with emerging technologies and industry developments.
A day in the life
You'll work alongside a broad array of colleagues including frontend developers, backend engineers, product managers, solution architects, and marketing teams.
As a Developer Evangelist, you’ll build relationships with app and game builders around the world while building in public. Each week you'll have new opportunities to create samples, write dev articles, and try new APIs and SDKs.
About The Team
The Developer Evangelism team is focused on enabling developers at scale through 1:many education. We focus on educating developers by crafting technical content such as articles, tutorials, code samples and case studies.
We contribute and participate in developer meetups, workshops, conferences, podcasts, livestreams, hackathons, and office hours.
Our team is made up of PR, Media, and Speaker trained developers that focus on building and delivering technical content directly to developers. We work closely with the Digital Marketing and Product teams to define the Go-To-Market strategies for upcoming Amazon devices and services.
Basic Qualifications
- 2 years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 4 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Strong knowledge and experience with mobile application development and/or games development platforms and popular programming languages (React Native, Kotlin/Java, C#)
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript
- Computer Science equivalent Manager of Information Systems Degree
- Superior oral and written communication skills in English
- Outstanding public speaking and presentation skills
- Proficiency writing technical, educational developer content (technical articles, tutorials, talks, sample code)
- Willingness to travel and ability to work autonomously
- Significant experience working in a technology evangelist or technical leadership role
- Experience developing and publishing apps and/or games on App Stores
- Experience working on Media Streaming Apps, Connected TVs, and Amazon Echo devices.
- Working knowledge and experience with social / online marketing coupled with prior experience in product definition, bring-to-market strategies and/ or setting an industry standard.
- A history of successful speaking engagements, industry influence and / or recognition in technology publications
- Experience contributing and fostering Open Source projects and related developer communities
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2921102
