Senior Solutions Architect, Alexa Voice Service Partner Programs, Europe

Amazon ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Amazon recently announced that third party hardware makers can integrate the Alexa Voice Service (AVS), the brain behind Amazon Echo, into their products. The Alexa team is seeking a Solutions Architect to help integrate Alexa into partner devices and services. Are you the kind of hands-on technical professional who can help our partners? In this role, you will wear many hats, including technical advisor, software developer and evangelist. You must possess a unique combination of deep technical skills and business acumen as well as a do-what-it-takes attitude to ensure our partners are able to take full advantage of Alexa's skills and are delivering a delightful end user experience. As a Solutions Architect in Alexa, you will perform three main functions - (1) provide technical expertise to Alexa developers, (2) convey best practices to build skills rapidly and at scale, and (3) work with Alexa product teams to build the best features for developers and customers. You will be the "face of Amazon" with key developers and drive discussions with senior technical and business leaders. You will also be willing to get your hands dirty, write code, and build tools or prototypes to demonstrate concepts that will enable developers to build on Alexa rapidly and delight our customers. And, with a unique blend of business and technical skills, you will influence Alexa product and service teams to create the best experience for our customers. Key Responsibilities: Engage with partners' developers, architects, hardware engineers and project managers to facilitate the integration of Alexa into their products and services Educate partners of all sizes on the Alexa service and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment Spend time as required on-site with partners helping them integrate with Alexa Brief Amazon executive teams on progress in adopting Alexa Work with the Alexa product teams to define platform requirements Capture and share best-practice knowledge that future Alexa partners can leverage Help Alexa business development identify leads for new potential partnerships