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This is what unites Amazonians across teams and geographies as we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="tabbable"><div class="fixedsticky" id="subnav"><ul class="nav nav-pills justify-content-center"><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#our-dna">Our DNA</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#leadership-principles">Leadership Principles</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#pioneers">Pioneers</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#diversity">Diversity</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#benefits">Benefits</a></li></ul></div><script>$(document).ready(function() { $('#subnav').fixedsticky(); initializeSubnav($('#subnav')); });</script><div class="section" id="our-dna"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="image-wrapper d-none d-md-block col-md-3 col-xl-2"><div class="globe"></div></div><div class="details-wrapper col-12 col-md-9 col-xl-10"><div class="details"><h1>Earth's most customer-centric company</h1><p>When Amazon.com launched in 1995, it was with the mission “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.” This goal continues today, but Amazon’s customers are worldwide now, and have grown to include millions of Consumers, Sellers, Content Creators, and Developers & Enterprises. Each of these groups has different needs, and we always work to meet those needs, innovating new solutions to make things easier, faster, better, and more cost-effective.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-blade section" id="leadership-principles"><div class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel" id="carousel-leadership-principles" style="background-image: url(/web/20200620002433im_/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/working/working-amazon)"><div class="carousel-inner" role="listbox"><div class="carousel-item active"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Customer Obsession</h1><p>Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Ownership</h1><p>Leaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job."</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Invent and Simplify</h1><p>Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here." As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Are Right, A Lot</h1><p>Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Learn and Be Curious</h1><p>Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Hire and Develop the Best</h1><p>Leaders raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion. They recognize exceptional talent, and willingly move them throughout the organization. Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others. We work on behalf of our people to invent mechanisms for development like Career Choice.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Insist on the Highest Standards</h1><p>Leaders have relentlessly high standards — many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and drive their teams to deliver high quality products, services, and processes. Leaders ensure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Think Big</h1><p>Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Bias for Action</h1><p>Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking. </p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Frugality</h1><p>Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Earn Trust</h1><p>Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Dive Deep</h1><p>Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit</h1><p>Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="carousel-item"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12 col-sm-8 offset-sm-2 content-wrapper"><div class="content"><h1>Deliver Results</h1><p>Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="btn-wrapper"><a class="btn btn-tertiary color-neutral" href="/web/20200620002433/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles">See all of our leadership principles</a></div><a class="left carousel-control" data-slide="prev" href="#carousel-leadership-principles" role="button"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-prev"></span></a><a class="right carousel-control" data-slide="next" href="#carousel-leadership-principles" role="button"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-next"></span></a></div><script>$(document).ready(function() { initializeCarousel($('#carousel-leadership-principles')); });</script></div><div class="section" id="pioneers"><div class="branding" id="quote-container"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-10 offset-1 col-md-8 offset-md-2"><div class="quote"><blockquote>Our passion for pioneering will drive us to explore narrow passages, and, unavoidably, many will turn out to be blind alleys. But - with a bit of good fortune - there will also be a few that open up into broad avenues.</blockquote><div class="citation-wrapper"><h1 class="citation float-right">Jeff Bezos</h1></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="pioneers-blade"><div class="pioneers-header"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-12"><div class="content-wrapper"><div class="content"><div class="title"><h1>Our pioneers</h1></div><a class="btn btn-tertiary" href="/web/20200620002433/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/pioneers">Meet more Amazon pioneers</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div data-react-class="PioneersCarousel" data-react-props="{"employeeProfiles":[{"id":"jason-f","identifier":"jason-f","name":"Jason F.","first_name":"Jason","job_title":"Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eJason has spent his career building tools for developers. For over a decade, he has been helping make Amazon developers more productive and efficient. 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For her current work on Amazon Home Services, she spent time driving around with over 150 handymen, plumbers, and other service providers seeing how their businesses worked and what they need to be successful.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s hard for them to find customers,\u0026quot; Tiffany says. \u0026quot;They were really open with feedback across the board, on everything from the tools that we were building to how they wanted to market their business to the customer. We took that feedback seriously, and it defined our strategy and the end-to-end experience we created. It was exciting to take those insights, translate them into real features and decisions, and see what an impact we were able to make on many of their businesses. 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The second is, I really like working on problems that aren\u0026#39;t solvable in a day. They aren\u0026#39;t solvable in a week. They\u0026#39;re problems that you will probably never solve in your lifetime, but you will keep finding better and better solutions over time. Sometimes I fail. But no one has ever killed my appetite. It\u0026#39;s expected that people will fail, or projects will fail, or initiatives will fail. The entire leadership team at all levels expects it. The biggest reason we have so many people who can innovate is because we take risks all the time, and we know we are taking risks.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEncouraging smart people to take smart risks also yields some big successes. Udit led the way on one of those big successes when his team took up the challenge of reinventing, in just five months, most of the fulfillment process\u0026mdash;everything about how we get products off of fulfillment center shelves and into boxes on their way to the customers who have bought them. Udit led the team who integrated the revolutionary possibilities of robotics into the fulfillment centers, to make everything work more smoothly and efficiently.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Changing what we had done at our core, to rip it out completely and bring in something new, it was an incredible challenge from a technology and process perspective. 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He wasn\u0026#39;t on the job long before he started thinking big. \u0026quot;One of my first emails back in 2004 was entitled Global Account Management,\u0026quot; he says. He wondered why someone selling on Amazon\u0026#39;s German site needed to set up new accounts to sell in each additional country. He pitched the idea of a single, simple, unified account to his managers, who pitched it to Amazon\u0026#39;s senior leadership. They approved and asked Volker to make it happen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I had the idea. Now I got to manage it,\u0026quot; he remembers with relish. By 2011, he and his team had launched unified accounts and made a substantial difference for sellers. \u0026quot;When you\u0026#39;re in Germany, you address 80 million people. When you address everybody in Europe, it\u0026#39;s suddenly 250 million people. Without a lot of effort, you now get a lot more sales. This year, it\u0026#39;s billions of dollars. That\u0026#39;s not all on me. 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In the summer of 2001, I graduated from officer candidate school and reported for duty at the Pentagon\u0026nbsp;right\u0026nbsp;after 9/11.\u0026nbsp;I was devastated for our country, but I felt even more committed to\u0026nbsp;serving at\u0026nbsp;this pivotal time in history.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI had life changing experiences in the military. I met remarkable people, including my husband, Chris, who\u0026#39;s also a Marine.\u0026nbsp;In our first two years of marriage, Chris and I spent 54 days together. The dual-military life we carved out wasn\u0026#39;t easy \u0026ndash; but it was ours.\u0026nbsp;Between multiple deployments, we had three kids.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a decade of service, Chris and I decided to transition from active duty. It made sense for our\u0026nbsp;family. But it was also daunting \u0026ndash; the Marines had given my life so much meaning.\u0026nbsp;While networking for opportunities, I found a job\u0026nbsp;that excited me\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; standing up a veteran recruiting initiative\u0026nbsp;at Amazon.\u0026nbsp;A future colleague reached out to help me\u0026nbsp;prepare for my interviews. I\u0026#39;ll never forget her generosity of time\u0026nbsp;which was critical to my transition.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOur\u0026nbsp;recruiting teams continue to\u0026nbsp;serve as resources to\u0026nbsp;veteran and military spouse applicants.\u0026nbsp;We\u0026nbsp;want them to know Amazon values their leadership and experiences. 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I used a popular job search engine to start off. With some coaching from a mentor, I tailored the search parameters around my attributes and found a listing for this position within AWS. I met all of the basic requirements and all but 1 of the desired qualifications, so I applied. A couple of days later, I had an email from a recruiter who stated my profile looked good, and she set up a phone call to further gauge my candidacy. A few more calls took place and before I knew it, I was in Seattle for an onsite interview. One more phone interview took place and a week later I received an offer for employment!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What was your onboarding experience like?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRG:\u003c/strong\u003e My onboarding experience was pretty awesome. Everything was very streamlined and organized from the New Hire Orientation on Day 1 to getting to my office and new hire training. Everyone was very helpful and pointed me in the right direction. Once I was set up with a lot of the basics, my training began. I started to meet with my peers and learn more about my role, what was expected of me, and how I could help the organization. There was a ton of information being thrown at me and at first, it seemed overwhelming. Everyone assured me that this was normal and offered tips to help sort through and organize the data. With so much assistance and data at hand, I was up to speed quickly. I\u0026rsquo;ve still got a long way to go, but thanks to everyone\u0026rsquo;s guidance, I have no reservations moving forward.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What do you like about working at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRG: \u003c/strong\u003eThe thing I love about working at Amazon is the culture. 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On a daily basis, I make a difference in someone\u0026rsquo;s life.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky\u003cstrong\u003e \u0026ndash; \u003c/strong\u003eAfter his retirement from the Army, Keevin Fields found an opportunity to continue doing what he was passionate about in his military career: logistics and leadership.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Military Recruiting Team (MRT) at Amazon asked Fields (KF) to share his advice with veterans transitioning from the military to the workforce after his own successful transition to Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026rsquo;s his success story and what he wants all transitioning veterans to know:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What do you enjoy about working at Amazon as a veteran?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKF: \u003c/strong\u003eI love working at Amazon because it reminds me of being in the military. It\u0026rsquo;s a fast-paced environment with a lot of people on the same goal or mission of fulfilling customer demand. On a daily basis, you make a difference in someone\u0026rsquo;s life, whether it be a customer order or helping an associate with a personal barrier.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: How did you get your Amazon job?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKF: \u003c/strong\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s funny how I got interested in working for Amazon. I was in Iraq in 2009, ordered a few DVDs online from Amazon and received them within four days. I was like \u003cem\u003ewow!\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: You were downrange in Iraq and received your shipment in only four days? Wow! From this peculiar customer experience, what else inspired you to apply for a position?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKF: \u003c/strong\u003eHaving been in logistics for 24 years in the military, I was very curious about what went on behind the walls of the facilities. When I retired, I created a profile on LinkedIn, and an Amazon recruiter contacted me.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: Do you feel appreciated as a veteran at Amazon, and have you had a chance to work with other veterans in your daily work?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKF: \u003c/strong\u003eAmazon recognizes its vets and makes me feel right at home. In my facility alone, we have several veterans from the Air Force, Marines, Army and Navy, and the competition level is always high in our building.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: Which skills from the military translated well to your job at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKF:\u003c/strong\u003e Leadership would have to be the biggest skill that translated best for me. Being a retired 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c/sup\u003e Sergeant and a former drill sergeant helped me with keeping my associates motivated and having fun while at work. Also, dealing with ambiguity on a daily basis is just like being in the military.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: If you knew one thing before the transition process that would have made your experience easier, what would that be? What was the hardest piece of the transition?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKF: \u003c/strong\u003eThe one thing I wish I would have worked on before transitioning out was more practice interviews. The hardest piece of my transition from the military was missing my fellow comrades and the fellowship, but after joining Amazon and meeting all the veterans, I feel right at home!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/208/images/Keevin_Fields.jpg?1484154283","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/208/thumbnails/Keevin_Fields.jpg?1484154283","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-customer-service","title":"Amazon Customer Service"},"location":null,"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"joe-c","identifier":"joe-c","name":"Joe","first_name":"Joe","job_title":"Area Manager \u0026 USMC Veteran","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u0026ldquo;There are a lot of veterans who work at Amazon . . . I deal with change and ambiguity, which are things that I dealt with in service as well, so in a lot of ways, I use my skills and values from service in a new way. Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoe Capel transitioned from the United States Marine Corps to the workforce and now leads a team at Amazon as an Area Manager.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHASLET, TX \u0026ndash; For military veterans like Joe Capel, it is rewarding to have a challenging job that pushes him to excel every day.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I never truly felt challenged until I came to Amazon.\u0026nbsp; I am excited to work with extraordinary people who are motivated and diligent.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCapel believes that his position at Amazon has been the most challenging and rewarding role of his career so far.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Being part of Amazon has helped me develop in ways no other job ever could,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;It has led me to reflect on everything I know about leading teams and achieving goals with the team.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Military Recruiting Team (MRT) at Amazon asked Capel (JC) to share advice about his transition from the military to a civilian career. Here is his success story and what he would like other military veterans to know:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: How did you join Amazon? Did you build a network?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJC: \u003c/strong\u003eA recruiter from Amazon who was also a Marine reached out to me on LinkedIn. We chatted about my goals and he helped me through the recruiting process. We have maintained contact since I started over a year ago and he continues to be a valued resource and colleague.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What was your onboarding experience like at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJC: \u003c/strong\u003eOnboarding was relatively smooth. I came in with a group of 30 new managers, some of which were also vets. During the first month we spent a lot of time together including outside of work. This was a tremendous help. When we moved into our roles, we were able to lean on those relationships to collectively help us accomplish our individual goals within our teams and departments.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What is it like to work at Amazon as a veteran?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJC:\u003c/strong\u003e Eerily familiar. There are a lot of veterans who work at Amazon. You start to see little sayings pop up in our everyday jargon that were clearly influenced by military culture. I deal with change and ambiguity at Amazon, which are things that I managed in the service as well, so in many ways, I use my service skills and values in a new way. Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What skills from the military translated to your job at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJC: \u003c/strong\u003eI worked in Marine intelligence. The skills that I developed and used in the Marines directly correlate to Amazon\u0026rsquo;s leadership principles of \u0026ldquo;Learn and Be Curious\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Dive Deep.\u0026rdquo; I started in operations and senior leadership noticed my skills and abilities. Today, I work as a quality manager for the building overseeing various initiatives and projects. My work requires a lot of data analysis and continuous learning. I feel at home in this role thanks to my past military experience.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: Have you had a chance to work with other veterans at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJC:\u003c/strong\u003e The majority of my senior leadership is comprised of veterans. I work daily with veterans in similar roles. Military veterans have plenty of opportunities at Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: If you knew one thing before transitioning that would have made your experience easier, what would that be? What was the hardest piece of the transition for you?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJC: \u003c/strong\u003eThe hardest part of the transition for me was to take a step back and really realize the role I was filling at Amazon. . The most important lesson I learned here is that we work as a team. If we all aren\u0026rsquo;t on the same page, we will fail. Earn the respect of your peers through hard work and by supporting their ideas and opinions and you will be stronger for it. We win together.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/209/images/Joe_Capel.jpg?1484155112","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/209/thumbnails/Joe_Capel.jpg?1484155113","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-customer-service","title":"Amazon Customer Service"},"location":null,"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"aaron-s","identifier":"aaron-s","name":"Aaron S.","first_name":"Aaron","job_title":"SDE, Middle Mile Technology","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m originally from the Seattle area. My folks live in Bremerton and I grew up all over Western Washington (Marysville/Arlington/Kingston/Bellingham). I took a job at Amazon as a Programmer Analyst in GFS back in 2008 and have a number of positions across into HRIS and the SDE job family. I took a year away during which I moved to Minnesota and did a bunch of traveling. I spent a month adventuring / relaxing in Costa Rica, a couple weeks in Mexico and 2 months in Europe with my father, hiking across Spain starting in France on the path called the Camino de Santiago\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI enjoy getting out and exploring the world. I really like meeting people when I travel. In my opinion, the best part about traveling is getting to come home and rediscover how nice it is to be back home again.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: From where did you relocate and what convinced you to relocate to MSP?\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI left Amazon just over a year ago to have a bit of a walkabout.\u0026nbsp;I had been making trips to MN to visit my fianc\u0026eacute;e and made the decision to move here in February. I had trouble imagining myself working anywhere after Amazon. Working on challenging problems with talented people is addicting. So, when I heard that Amazon was setting up shop in Minneapolis, I hoped we could find a fit. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier that Amazon followed me here and I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward to helping build up this office.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: What MSP neighborhood(s) do you live/work/hang out in, and what do you like about it?\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve spent several weeks staying the in the Northeast Arts District, which is starting to feel like home. I\u0026rsquo;ve tried the light rail commute up from Longfellow and I\u0026rsquo;ve stayed downtown. There\u0026rsquo;s a lot of variety in Minneapolis and I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to exploring more in the months ahead.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: What do you love most about MSP?\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eMinneapolis has that small city feel that Seattle has; all of the conveniences that make city life good without feeling too intimidating. It\u0026rsquo;s great to live through all 4 seasons in their extremes, each offering a different set of possible adventures.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eMore than anything, I\u0026rsquo;m here for the people. I left a lot of family and friends in Seattle because my fianc\u0026eacute;e is my life. With that comes a whole new group of friends and family. My coworkers here are quickly becoming part of my network of friends.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: What are your thoughts on the culture of MSP? Entertainment/leisure?\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eAs much as Seattle is known for its music, Minneapolis has a really rich music scene. I\u0026rsquo;ve been following Doomtree since long before I considered moving here. I really enjoy playing board games with friends. There are enough board game players on the team that we occasionally get a game in after work.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: What are your favorite places to hang out?\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eWhen the weather is warmer, the walk along the riverfront is really pleasant.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s hard to beat the social hubbub of Uptown. I\u0026rsquo;ve been visiting Minneapolis for years and every trip I\u0026rsquo;d do something active around Lake Calhoun before I pick up a chai at Uncommon Grounds and wander around the corner to Stella\u0026rsquo;s Fish Caf\u0026eacute; for Oysters or Fish. Being from Seattle, I never expected one of my favorite seafood restaurants to be land locked here in Minneapolis.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m still exploring Minneapolis. This is my first winter and I\u0026rsquo;m still adjusting to the cold. The skyway system is amazing and I really enjoy parking across town and getting lost on my way into work. It makes me think that this is what life will be like on other planets, which makes sense for a place where temperatures can drop to -20\u0026deg; before wind chill.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: What do you love most about your MSP team?\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eThe Minneapolis team is an extreme version of the Amazon I know from Seattle. There\u0026rsquo;s a lot of flexibility and agility to get to the point and get down to work while still having all of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s resources and experience to support and ground us. The team here in Minneapolis is especially smart and talented. I see myself as an Amazon interpreter here in Minneapolis where my coworkers bring the best of Minnesota culture to the office and I bring a more Seattle perspective with years of learning and growing in the Amazon melting pot.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\"\u003eQ: What makes you peculiar?\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI really like working in the Amazon ecosystem. Amazon values doing the right thing and not hiding behind a desk all day, so work is never boring. I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s especially peculiar, but some of my friends and family have suggested it.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI walked 500 miles across Spain with my 64 year old Father this fall.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m the only employee at Amazon who was demoted twice before my first promotion. (PA III -\u0026gt; PA II -\u0026gt; SDE I -\u0026gt; SDE II).\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003eI watched Firefly as it aired, from episode #1, but I\u0026rsquo;ve never considered myself a browncoat.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/211/images/aaron-s_mn.jpg?1484260253","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/211/thumbnails/aaron-s_mn_300x300.jpg?1484260253","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/minneapolis-mn","title":"Minneapolis, MN"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"stefan-k","identifier":"stefan-k","name":"Stefan K.","first_name":"Stefan","job_title":"Amazon Appstore Lead for EU and India","description":"\u003cp\u003eStefan is a Senior Manager on the Appstore team. 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My hopes were renewed!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eA series of interviews and a tour of a fulfillment center (one with the robots, which was awesome!) left me feeling optimistic for a chance with the company. The very next day I got an email stating I would be extended an offer with the company. Once the offer arrived, I was thrilled and readily joined the Amazon team \u0026ndash; a decision which has proven to be one of my best.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What was your onboarding experience like?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMZ: My family and I moved from Memphis to Houston a few weeks after I received the offer and accepted, and I was sent out for my training. While my training was expected to be 8 weeks long in Dallas, it actually ended up being 5 months long in Phoenix, New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston. I quickly realized that this was a unique opportunity for me to learn the business with the support of station leaders from a variety of diverse locations.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: Now that you\u0026rsquo;ve been at Amazon for a while, what is it like to work here as a veteran?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMZ: Working at my site in Houston has been phenomenal. The people on my team and the other teams in the building are cohesive and intelligent, assisting each other to solve complex problems \u0026ndash; all traits I learned and perfected during my military service. I fit in quickly with the team and established a small group of veterans at the site with whom I could share military stories and gain knowledge about the business. Every day I come to work at Amazon is another opportunity to make history. Amazon pushes the envelope every day with devices, processes, and services aimed solely at being the most customer obsessed company in the world. My associates, peers, and managers all embody this obsession and embrace it while we drive towards being the very best in everything we do.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: What skills from the military translated into your job at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMZ: My military experience has helped me transition into Amazon as both organizations share similar principles. The bias for action, willingness to disagree, the ability to be right (a lot), and the drive to retain the very best team members \u0026ndash; all of these are seen in the military, too. 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They have definitely helped when it comes to troubleshooting configurations. I can usually figure out what is wrong based on what information has been given to me. Aside from technical expertise, the military helped me break out of my bubble, and I can now talk more comfortably in front of a larger group of people.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMRT: Have you had a chance to work with other veterans at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDT: \u003c/strong\u003eYes, I have gotten to work with many other veterans at Amazon! Most of the people on our team are actually prior military. I love working with them because we can share similar stories from being in the service together. 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She describes smart co-workers with an ambitious vision, rich data, and AWS computing resources as the ideal combination for a scientist.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Angeliki enjoys spending time with family and friends, hiking, yoga, reading, and traveling.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/243/images/Angeliki-Profile.jpg?1489529668","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/243/thumbnails/Angeliki-Thumbnail.jpg?1489529668","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/sunnyvale-california","title":"Sunnyvale, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"ruhi-s","identifier":"ruhi-s","name":"Ruhi S","first_name":"Ruhi","job_title":"Director of Alexa Applied Science ","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuhi has been in\u0026nbsp;the speech and language technology field for over 20 years, starting with a PhD on robust speech recognition at Duke University and two years at the Center for Spoken Language Research at the University of Colorado.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter working on breakthrough speech products at major companies, Ruhi was drawn to the Alexa team.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Echo is incredibly voice-forward,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I believe we are at the cusp of an extraordinary moment in the technology space \u0026mdash; in a couple years, voice and natural language will be the main interface when interacting with computers and devices around us.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you ask Ruhi what Amazon does, he answers with two words: Removing friction. For Alexa, that means helping users discover and invoke Alexa skills most useful to them in an easy way, and working to make speech and natural language understanding the most natural user interface. Ruhi\u0026rsquo;s team is building intelligence into Alexa through machine learning to address technical challenges around contextual understanding, skills, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The definition of a computer is changing \u0026mdash; any device with an IP address is becoming a computer,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Alexa is the main intelligent agent behind a proliferation of\u0026nbsp;different endpoints. 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I have a bond with my customers. I\u0026#39;m making a new friend every time I take a phone call.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAbout six years ago, the Tierce family moved from central California to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. Sabrina\u0026#39;s husband, Joshua, is a U.S. Army medic. She was nervous about finding a job with some flexibility because her daughter is diabetic.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If I got a phone call from the school saying her blood sugar is high or low, I\u0026#39;d have to put everything on hold and leave immediately,\u0026quot; Tierce said. \u0026quot;That was hindering me from getting a job, until I saw an ad from Amazon about working from home. The customer service position involved taking phone calls that were routed to you personally. It was amazing that this was even a possibility.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon\u0026#39;s Virtual Contact Centers support customers around the globe who are using Amazon\u0026#39;s websites, shopping apps, and digital products such as Kindle, Echo, and Alexa. Tierce is now a customer service team lead with Amazon, managing 18 customer service associates who also work from their homes in several states across the country.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to being available to help her daughter if needed, Tierce enjoys other benefits of working from home for Amazon. \u0026quot;Being a military spouse can be sometimes a little isolating,\u0026quot; Tierce added. \u0026quot;I have a bond with my customers. I\u0026#39;m making a new friend every time I take a phone call.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The greater value, she said, is the peace of mind her husband has because the family has a stable, secondary income. If they need to relocate for the military, she could work from home for Amazon in another state. 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In grad school, he became exposed to machine learning and worked on a personal WiFi location system that could run on\u0026nbsp;portable devices. He embarked on a career as a software development engineer, focusing on online mapping experiences and computer vision.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;What\u0026nbsp;I have done repeatedly throughout my career is find problems and get solutions out the door in a self\u0026ndash;directed way,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThen, he got a call from Amazon.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I was one of the people who got\u0026nbsp;the $99 Echo early as a Prime member because\u0026nbsp;I thought it was amazing,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I loved the technology as a consumer and thought if\u0026nbsp;I was ever going to work at Amazon, that would be the product\u0026nbsp;I would want to work on\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;it aligns with my long-term vision of using technology to make people superhuman.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow as an Amazon Principal Engineer, Brad focuses on how to make Alexa science more accessible to developers. At AWS re:Invent, his team launched a\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/built-in-intent-ref/built-in-intent-library\"\u003eBuilt-in Intent Library\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;that developers can use to add functionality to their Alexa skill without providing any sample utterances. 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I really wish we had more networking and help years before we separated. It\u0026rsquo;s tough to know what\u0026rsquo;s really out there and what tools to use. Navigating those take time, and starting the job search on terminal leave is stressful (and not the way to go - trust me, I did it)! 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Having worked defense contracting around DC, there was always a sense around those who were former military that they couldn\u0026rsquo;t quite let go of the military air, which could be prohibitive at times. Coming to work for Amazon has been a refreshing change.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: Have you had a chance to work with other veterans at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePA: \u003c/strong\u003eYes. There was another Airman in a partner team when I worked for AWS EC2.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What skills from the military translated into your job at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePA: \u003c/strong\u003eI was fortunate to go into IT security while in the military, and had the opportunities to start down the road of project management at my last assignment. The leadership training I got there helped immensely in adopting Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture, and my technical skills continue to see use on a daily basis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What skills do you wish you had learned in the military that would have been helpful when you joined Amazon? Did you find certain skills like Excel, or soft skills, to be something that you had to work on?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePA: \u003c/strong\u003eI wish I had more practice with code development while in the military, but those skills have become rare as most coding is contracted out. I also wish I had more time to develop my leadership skills, but it was a trade-off in waiting for the very measured and relatively risk-free advancement system of the military versus the risky but potentially rapid advancement opportunities afforded by success at a company like Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: If you had one take-away or bit of advice for other veterans who might be transitioning to the workforce, what would that be?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePA: \u003c/strong\u003eI think I was able to handle my transition well, but there was a lot of psychological preparation for the moment when it seemed like a metaphorical switch was flipped. One day I was military, and the next I was civilian. Several things I had been used to suddenly evaporated overnight, and I found that I had the freedom to keep in place what I had liked, and discard the things I did not, about my military life.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/400/images/philipallchin.jpg?1503538259","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/400/thumbnails/philipallchin.jpg?1503538259","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":null},{"id":"francesco-m","identifier":"francesco-m","name":"Francesco M.","first_name":"Francesco","job_title":"Head of EU Kindle Store","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancesco, a Rome-born Roma supporter, not a Lazio fan, as he is keen to point out,\u0026nbsp;has a very distinctive laugh: spontaneous, hearty and contagious. 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This passion saw him attend a \u003cem\u003eliceo scientifico \u003c/em\u003e(a science-focused 6th form college) and then go on to university to study telecommunications engineering. \u0026ldquo;But I was not your average nerd, not one of those who bury their heads in books for hours on end. I studied and got good grades, but I had lots of other interests: sport, travelling and girls\u0026rdquo;. After graduating, Francesco found a job as a risk manager with a telecommunications company in Italy.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2011, Amazon called out of the blue to invite him to an interview in Luxembourg. They were looking for someone to price digital books for the Kindle platform. \u0026ldquo;My first reaction was: \u0026lsquo;What?\u0026rsquo; At that time, hardly anyone in Italy knew what Amazon was and Kindle was barely off the ground. 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On the first day, my boss asked me to devise a pricing strategy for Kindle launches in two European countries. I was taken aback, thinking it would take me a month because I would need to talk to a million people. In fact, I had a week to do everything, all on my own. It was a culture shock\u0026rdquo;. Francesco suddenly found himself on the company\u0026rsquo;s front line, \u0026ldquo;where every day is different and issues are tackled head-on\u0026rdquo;. He had the right attitude and was promoted to Principal, Kindle Product Management, then Head of Product Management and Business Development and finally to Head of EU Kindle Content Store. \u0026ldquo;It would have taken me 30 years with another company, but it only took five at Amazon\u0026rdquo;. Francesco has a clear idea of what makes a good boss: \u0026ldquo;You have to be available to your team and help it grow. Paradoxically, you must succeed in making yourself useless. 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Principal engineers at Amazon don\u0026rsquo;t sit in ivory towers; we take ownership of the smallest bits falling through the cracks to advising on high level strategy. We have deep technical knowledge, but are pragmatic and base our decisions on what is best for the customer.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A good piece of career advice is to make decisions that open opportunities.\u0026quot; Emily stays at Amazon because of the vast number of opportunities to start new programs, improve the network for our customer, and develop her skills, breadth and depth. \u0026quot;Amazon enables engineers to go after our ideas and pick a different path when we need a change. The responsibilities and opportunities are daunting, but inspiring.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/430/images/Emilyabb_casual1.jpg?1507140974","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/430/thumbnails/Emilyabb_casual1.jpg?1507140975","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/hardware-development","title":"Hardware Development"},"team":null},{"id":"doug-t","identifier":"doug-t","name":"Doug Terry ","first_name":"Doug","job_title":"Senior Principal Engineer, AWS Dynamo DB","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Doug has focused on advancing state-of-the-art distributed computing through innovation, product development, and education.\u0026nbsp; Prior to Amazon, Doug was head of a research lab at Samsung Research America working on smart home IoT platforms.\u0026nbsp; Before that, he spent many years at Microsoft in Research, the SQL Server team, at Xerox PARC in the famed Computer Science Lab and at U. 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Doug is best known for his work crafting DNS, ubiquitous computing, eventual consistency replication, and collaborative filtering.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCurrently, he is on the AWS Database Services team focusing on NoSQL databases, particularly DynamoDB.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;Working on DynamoDB is super exciting since we have a diverse set of customers with very large tables being fully managed at a scale that I have not encountered.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp; Doug\u0026#39;s current challenge is to continue evolving DynamoDB to meet the needs of globally distributed applications even more effectively, without compromising on the key tenets of availability, performance, and consistency.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;I am excited by this opportunity to build on all of the work that I\u0026rsquo;ve done in the past while producing a unique customer-focused product.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;As a Senior Principal Technologist, my role has many facets, including producing the vision of where AWS services should be headed, speaking with customers to understand their needs, designing and developing new service features, mentoring engineers, and educating others on emerging technology.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDoug loves technical innovation with a customer focus, producing what he refers to as \u0026ldquo;magic that matters\u0026rdquo;.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;At Amazon, with our bevy of customers who critically depend on AWS services for their livelihood, I am learning about how the large-scale distributed systems technology that I\u0026rsquo;ve helped invent over the past three decades is being used in practice at unprecedented scales.\u0026nbsp; I cannot imagine a better place to blend my desire for continuous learning with my passion for innovation.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/433/images/Doug_Terry.jpg?1507068504","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/433/thumbnails/Doug_Terry.jpg?1507068504","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/palo-alto","title":"Palo Alto, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"byron-c","identifier":"byron-c","name":"Byron C.","first_name":"Byron","job_title":"Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Security ","description":"\u003cp\u003eByron is currently focused on the development and application of formal logic-based tools for automated reasoning about cloud-computing security. Byron\u0026#39;s team is working on applying these techniques to problems ranging from networking policy analysis, to the correctness of Amazon\u0026#39;s cryptography.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;My colleagues are all here for the excitement of building real tools in a high impact environment.\u0026nbsp; Everyone is actively looking for ways to align their goals with practical projects. This isn\u0026#39;t by accident: some profound thinking has gone into the development and maintenance of Amazon\u0026#39;s culture.\u0026nbsp; At its heart Amazon\u0026#39;s DNA is the \u0026quot;Amazon principles\u0026quot;. I really cannot overemphasize how important these are to the culture of the company.\u0026nbsp; They are carefully maintained by the leadership team.\u0026nbsp; They are woven into all of the mechanisms of the company, from recruitment to hiring and through retention. At each stage, the principles are used in a way that maintains a cooperative and constructive work environment in the face of staggering scale.\u0026nbsp; As just one example of the profound consequences of this approach:\u0026nbsp; by emphasizing the Amazon principles, we have an organization that naturally values different types of people, from different classes, cultures, genders, educational backgrounds, disciplines, etc.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePrincipal engineers autonomously look for problems in the company and solve them. Think of Principal Engineers as the immune system for an organization acting on behalf of customers.\u0026nbsp; When Byron joined Amazon, he spent more than 6 months learning about the business, meeting with customers, meeting with new colleagues, searching for high value problems where his background in logic and proof automation could provide value.\u0026nbsp; He then developed and piloted four projects that he thought would be both scientifically interesting and would connect well with the business. Through those pilot projects, Byron was able to demonstrate initial success, building trust with the organization that the approach he was developing was viable on a practical level. Byron\u0026#39;s and his team have gone on to build several tools that are now in the hands of customers. Additionally, they have worked on several internal formal verification projects that are making profound contributions to the security of Amazon\u0026#39;s underlying cloud infrastructure.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Before I joined Amazon I spent 10 years as an industrial researcher. I remained in research for those 10 years because I wanted freedom to pursue interesting problems. It seemed to me like a major change to move to an applied position, and I was not sure what I would think. I took the risk because the path to impact seemed so much clearer at Amazon.\u0026nbsp; After three years at Amazon I realize that an Amazon Principal has more freedom to pursue interesting problems than that of an industrial researcher, or university professor. The position has all of the advantages of university research, without many of the bureaucratic downsides. If I see a solution to a problem that\u0026#39;s affecting customers, I can react swiftly and with obvious impact.\u0026nbsp; With a bit of data about customer impact it is usually pretty easy to explain why I\u0026rsquo;ve chosen to spend my time on a particular problem.\u0026nbsp; I don\u0026rsquo;t have to write grants and there is very little committee work. I can still write academic papers if I want, but I don\u0026#39;t have to if it doesn\u0026rsquo;t make sense, thus I don\u0026rsquo;t have to try and pre-filter my activities to those problems that seem publishable.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/435/images/byron_badge_photo-_high_resolution.jpg?1507071280","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/435/thumbnails/byron_badge_photo-_high_resolution.jpg?1507071280","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/newyork","title":"New York Area, NY"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/systems-quality-security-engineering","title":"Systems, Quality, \u0026 Security Engineering"},"team":null},{"id":"andrea-o","identifier":"andrea-o","name":"Andrea Olgiati","first_name":"Andrea","job_title":"Principal Engineer, AWS Rekognition","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrea spent the large part of his career working on compilers and programmable chips for cameras and TVs. When he joined Amazon, he started out working on AWS Redshift.\u0026nbsp; Now, Andrea is part of the Amazon ML team, working on machine learning and AI. In particular, his focus is on computer vision.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;It\u0026rsquo;s super-exciting because AI is a new domain for many \u0026ndash; we get to shape the future of a whole industry.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAndrea chooses to work for Amazon because of many reasons: the breadth of businesses, the speed with which we execute, the leadership that every one of us exhibits. \u0026quot;More than anything, I stay because I believe that what I do makes a real, tangible, immediate impact in the lives of our customers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAndrea describes the role of an Amazon PE as the \u0026ldquo;engine\u0026rdquo; that makes this company work.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;My role has an amazing breadth and depth \u0026ndash; from helping shape the strategic decisions for my organization, to hiring the best of the best, to writing code that makes computer vision work at Amazon scale, to working with world-renowned scientists. The most unique part about being a PE at Amazon is the trust and leadership that everyone expects from me. I am a leader first and an engineer second.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/436/images/Andrea_Olgiati.jpg?1507071437","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/436/thumbnails/Andrea_Olgiati.jpg?1507071438","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/palo-alto","title":"Palo Alto, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"nafea-b","identifier":"nafea-b","name":"Nafea B","first_name":"Nafea","job_title":"VP/Distinguished Engineer, Annapurna Labs, AWS","description":"\u003cp\u003eNafea studied Electric Engineering and Computer Science at the Technion, Israel institute of Technology, and early on developed a passion to work on the intersection between Hardware, Software and Distributed Systems.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNafea has spent the past 16 years at Galileo/Marvell, getting a chance to work on chip development and verification, software (drivers and operating systems) and later system design. Following his tenure at Galileo/Marvell, Nafea co-founded Annapurna Labs with a mission to revisit server design, virtualization, network and storage, for the use cases and deployment model of the cloud era, with Amazon Web Services as a customer. \u0026quot;I recall how eye-opening the engagement with Amazon as a supplier was. I was able to see the culture first hand: data-driven, fast decision making, innovation and willingness to take risk on startups, a humbling experience to see such a large group of smart people working together, and above all \u0026ndash; good honest people. Amazon acquired Annapurna Labs in 2015 and now I get to see the inner-workings of one of the most innovative companies and observe its rapid growth up close. It is even more impressive.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhy would I stay?\u0026nbsp; It\u0026rsquo;s for combination of reason \u0026ndash;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI love to learn and it is a place where you learn a lot.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI love to work with smart people, and I get to do that.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m a builder and I like to spend most of my time at work on building and deploying (quickly),\u0026nbsp; not in meetings and PowerPoint preparation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI love a startup culture, and each team at amazon is like a startup. Teams are empowered to make their own decisions, prioritization and own it.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Distinguished Engineer in AWS, Nafea gets to work on both short term and long term projects with large scope. Distinguished Engineers are chartered to innovate in the name of customers, working with very large groups of smart folks that love to help and come with different backgrounds. The culture is very open.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;At Amazon scale, you get to deal with needs and address challenges most likely not yet discussed in the industry or academy.\u0026nbsp; To give an example, Software-defined-network was deployed at Amazon since 2008, much earlier than the industry hype.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most fulfilling parts of Nafea\u0026#39;s job is watching and actively mentoring promising junior engineers; seeing them progress to principal engineers, innovating and contributing to Amazon products and the principle engineering community.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Principal engineers at amazon get exposed to almost all projects running and get to select which design reviews to attend.\u0026nbsp; It not only enriches the PE knowledge, it helps build bridges and share one\u0026rsquo;s experience with others.\u0026quot; Principals get to build, and they are expected to be technically fearless. Something that the company and culture encourages despite the size and scope of the work done. Principal Engineers are always encouraged to do more and are not restrained by \u0026ldquo;its working, don\u0026rsquo;t touch it\u0026rdquo; mind set.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/437/images/NafeaBadge.jpg?1507241402","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/437/thumbnails/NafeaBadge.jpg?1507241403","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/cupertino-california","title":"Cupertino, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"serdar-t","identifier":"serdar-t","name":"Serdar Tasiran ","first_name":"Serdar","job_title":"Principal Engineer, AWS Security","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Serdar joined Amazon, he was a professor at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey and a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. He worked in the following areas before joining Amazon:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e- Verification, programming languages, and systems: Verifiable systems programming, static proof and dynamic verification tools for multi-threaded and distributed software, multi-processor hardware.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e- Design automation tools for hardware and software systems: Synthesis, verification, performance analysis and optimization.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow, Serdar is working on tools and techniques for formally verifying the security of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s systems. His team builds and applies tools which facilitate the security of the cloud and in the cloud, i.e., for software implementing AWS, and for software built on top of AWS. \u0026quot;I think of Amazon Web Services as the enabling computing platform for the world. Putting my formal verification experience into use in making this global platform secure is important and rewarding work.\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026quot;Not only am I working on very interesting problems, but I am always learning at Amazon. There are projects at Amazon directly tackling most of the computer science problems that I find interesting. There is a huge variety of activity. First-hand experience of interesting computing challenges is what makes Amazon a very stimulating place to work.\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSerdar works as a domain specialist on his team, using formal verification technology for security applications ranging from program analysis for application security to proofs of cryptographic protocols. He also has a company-wide role as a participant in discussions with and consultant for other teams whenever his experience can be helpful.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Principal engineers work as domain specialist on their team and as participants in a company-wide dialogue. This dual role makes for a stimulating work environment and fosters a lot of growth.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/438/images/tasiran_serdar_final.jpg?1507825450","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/438/thumbnails/tasiran_serdar_final.jpg?1507825450","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/newyork","title":"New York Area, NY"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"tim-b","identifier":"tim-b","name":"Tim Bray","first_name":"Tim","job_title":"Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS","description":"\u003cp\u003eTim has been doing software for decades. \u0026nbsp;After a couple of startups, he was at Sun Microsystems and Google before joining Amazon.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;Since I don\u0026rsquo;t talk much in public about my Amazon work, I\u0026rsquo;m probably best known for helping invent XML back in the Nineties, and as a loudmouth on my blog (\u003ca href=\"http://tbray.org\"\u003etbray.org\u003c/a\u003e) and Twitter (@timbray).\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eRight now, Tim is working on a bunch of different AWS services. In 2015 and 2016, he pitched in directly on building CloudWatch Events and AWS Step Functions, including quite a bit of code. \u0026nbsp;Both services are doing quite well!\u0026nbsp; In recent months, Tim has had a side project helping out on the software for AWS Snowmobile (\u003ca href=\"https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/\"\u003ehttps://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;- seriously, follow that link).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Generally, I like computers, had previously worked for two computer companies, and think of AWS as a postmodern computer company. I like the simple, direct relationship between AWS and its customers. \u0026nbsp;Also, I like the commitment to my hometown, Vancouver, where we have a large and growing engineering presence (\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/location/vancouvervictoria-canada/?base_query=\u0026amp;loc_query=\u0026amp;job_count=10\u0026amp;result_limit=10\u0026amp;sort=relevant\u0026amp;location%5B%5D=vancouvervictoria-canada\u0026amp;cache\"\u003evisit amazon.jobs/Vancouver for more information\u003c/a\u003e).\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is unique about being a Principal Engineer at Amazon?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;m not actually smarter than the engineers on the teams I help, but I have a whole lot of experience on what works and doesn\u0026rsquo;t, and good cross-Amazon relationships due to the wonderful Principal-Engineer community. \u0026nbsp;So one of my major contributions is helping engineers find other teams or individuals who are working in the same area and might be able to help each other. \u0026nbsp;I still really like writing code, and it makes me happy that one package I wrote is currently processing a million or so events a second, 24/7/365, making AWS work a little better for our millions of active customers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The professional impact you can have, just because of the impact that AWS is having on the practice of IT. I\u0026rsquo;m also very fond of the Principal-Engineer community, which is super-important because of the immense independence given to the individual teams; somebody has to serve as the connective tissue.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/439/images/Tim_Bray.jpg?1525127855","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/439/thumbnails/Tim_Bray.jpg?1525127855","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-customer-service","title":"Amazon Customer Service"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/vancouvervictoria-canada","title":"Vancouver, Canada"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"darryl-h","identifier":"darryl-h","name":"Darryl Havens ","first_name":"Darryl","job_title":"VP/Distinguished Engineer, Robotics","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Darryl came to Amazon, he was working at a large software company where he was an I/O architect for their flagship software.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDarryl recently moved into working on robotics for Amazon\u0026rsquo;s fulfillment centers. Before that he was helping teams throughout the Consumer division build and run the services that make Amazon\u0026rsquo;s retail business work. \u0026quot;Both of these jobs are super exciting because we are always trying new things which means solving really challenging new problems.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;My role as a Distinguished Engineer is to help teams throughout the company provide the technical solutions that drive our businesses \u0026ndash; from the website to delivering the packages that our customers receive every day. I get to work on a myriad of technical issues, working with VPs, Directors and other engineers to build the infrastructure and features to make what we do possible.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The principal engineering bar at Amazon is very high, which means that I get to work with amazing, super-smart people in a community that works together across the company to solve all of the technical issues we face. In doing so I get see challenges both in and way outside of my wheelhouse, which makes every day here unique. I also get to help grow other principal engineers through mentorship \u0026ndash; both technically and personally.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon is simply an amazing place to work. Darryl is excited to work with some of the smartest people he has ever worked with, together solving wonderfully difficult technical problems, in an environment that culturally is the best place he has ever worked.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/441/images/Darryl_havens.jpg?1507147268","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/441/thumbnails/Darryl_havens.jpg?1507147268","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"kelly-w","identifier":"kelly-w","name":"Kelly Wiggins","first_name":"Kelly","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Translation Services ","description":"\u003cp\u003eKelly joined Amazon right after graduating from Dartmouth College. She has spent her entire career working at Amazon. Currently, Kelly works on human language translation.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;It\u0026rsquo;s a fun combination of building new translation technologies and optimizing for Amazon\u0026rsquo;s existing systems.\u0026nbsp; Almost every product that Amazon offers is offered in multiple countries and therefore needs translations \u0026ndash; from Retail to Kindle to Alexa to AWS \u0026ndash; so I get to work with a broad cross-section of the company.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Principal Engineer, Kelly provides a cohesive technical vision of the human language translation architecture, considering Amazon\u0026rsquo;s variety of use cases and high scale.\u0026nbsp; Kelly guides the teams within my organization as they implement that vision, and she tackles the most challenging problems herself!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Amazon has everything that keeps me motivated: challenging problems, high impact, new technology, customer focus, and a good work-life balance.\u0026nbsp; I also love the leadership principle \u0026ldquo;Are Right, A Lot\u0026rdquo; which encourages leaders to keep an open mind and work to disconfirm their own beliefs.\u0026nbsp; This means design reviews focus on making the right decisions and not on \u0026ldquo;winning\u0026rdquo; the design review.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/443/images/Kelly_Wiggins.jpg?1537902547","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/443/thumbnails/Kelly_Wiggins.jpg?1537902547","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/retail","title":"Retail"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"eric-s","identifier":"eric-s","name":"Eric Schurman ","first_name":"Eric","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Sustainability","description":"\u003cp\u003eEric came to Amazon from Microsoft, where he was in charge of site performance for Bing.com. Before that, he wore many other hats at Microsoft including dev lead for Bing\u0026#39;s search results page, and Architect and Dev Lead for the Microsoft.com home page, Download Center, Product Catalog, and Search.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEric spent his first years here at Amazon as the lead technical resource working on \u0026ldquo;making Amazon.com fast\u0026rdquo;. This was great because it\u0026rsquo;s a rich and varied area and also has a big impact on customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow Eric is working on Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Sustainability team, mostly working on modeling, investigating, and reducing Amazon\u0026rsquo;s global carbon footprint. This is exciting because it presents unique challenges and has an impact on the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Throughout most of my career here I was focused on the end goal of making Amazon fast. I worked on pretty much anything that furthered this goal, working on culture, education, executive communication, customer measurement, new framework design and implementation, and technical advice across many teams around the world. Specifics included helping design company-wide performance goals, instrumenting the customer experience, working on new rendering frameworks, coordinating with browser manufacturers, giving talks, writing papers, and even presenting to Jeff Bezos. \u0026nbsp;I\u0026rsquo;m currently in a pretty different role, where I\u0026rsquo;m mostly heads down right now working on the math and modeling of carbon footprint across Amazon\u0026rsquo;s business, which involves more time at my actual desk than my last role. It\u0026rsquo;s neat being able to both go very broad, and go very deep.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePrincipals are encouraged to work beyond the scope of their individual teams, and anyone at the company can submit a consultation request to the entire Principal community. This affords Principal Engineers insight into what\u0026rsquo;s going on across the company, and lets people benefit from the expertise of Principals that aren\u0026rsquo;t on their team, or who have experience in areas you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have guessed.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;There\u0026rsquo;s also a community among the Principals which is richer than I\u0026rsquo;ve seen elsewhere. This is both beneficial to us and the company as a whole.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/444/images/Eric_Schurrman.jpg?1507073904","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/444/thumbnails/Eric_Schurrman.jpg?1507073904","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"drew-s","identifier":"drew-s","name":"Drew Samnick","first_name":"Drew","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Supply Chain Automation","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrior to Amazon, Drew worked at a large software company on where he worked on specialized programs with large impact. Since joining Amazon, Drew has worked on automated context scheduling, page construction and rendering framework, and Amazon\u0026rsquo;s customer account creation and authentication systems before joining Supply Chain in 2008. Since 2008, he has been helping build and evolve systems that automate Amazon\u0026rsquo;s worldwide inventory decisions. \u0026nbsp;These systems manage the large value of inventory annually across millions and millions of items. \u0026quot;One of the things I most enjoys about this challenging and fast moving space is the chance to work with a cross-disciplinary team of software engineers, operations research scientists, machine learning engineers, statisticians, economists, and business teams. There is a ton of impact, the problems are interesting, and there is ample opportunity to learn new things.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor Drew, there are many reasons why he has stayed at Amazon for so long. They can all be summed up as continuing to learn and grow. \u0026quot;I doubt I will ever run out of opportunities to learn here.\u0026quot; As a Principal Engineer, Drew gets a unique and holistic view of a collection of complex systems. His job is to improve these systems by streamlining existing interactions and by identifying missing pieces and getting them built. \u0026quot;I help the organization function better by removing technical roadblocks that slow us down and by building the right abstractions to decouple systems.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/445/images/Drew.jpg?1507241957","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/445/thumbnails/Drew.jpg?1507241958","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"jj-t","identifier":"jj-t","name":"JJ Tavernier ","first_name":"JJ","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Personalization","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Amazon, JJ worked on problems in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in the public sector. He worked in an R\u0026amp;D group for a government contractor, which gave him exposure to a number of interesting problems in NLP, including information extraction, machine transliteration and machine translation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the moment, JJ is focused on two areas. One is deciding what content should be displayed to a given customer in a given context. This is exciting from a number of perspectives.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Technically, it is interesting because of the scale of the problem \u0026ndash; requiring both large scale offline learning systems and low-latency online prediction systems \u0026ndash; and because understanding what content will be beneficial for a given customer and context is an unsolved modeling problem. From a business perspective, it\u0026rsquo;s interesting because my teammates and I have the ability to positively affect the shopping experience of nearly every customer that shops on Amazon. The other area I am focused on involves trying to precisely understand natural language, and using that understanding to help customers. Natural language understanding is technically interesting because current systems are still at an early stage in being able to understand and take action on behalf of customers. I\u0026rsquo;m particularly interested in how we can harness the large amount of freely available natural language text to help build understanding systems.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of things JJ enjoys about Amazon. First, he gets to work with some of the best engineers, scientists and technical managers in the world. Amazon is a very collaborative company. JJ is always learning something from the other engineers he works with, whether in a meeting, a quick hallway discussion or an email. \u0026quot;I like how agile we are as a company. Many times, impromptu discussions will generate a new technical or business idea and soon after, we will run some quick experiments to demonstrate the idea\u0026rsquo;s viability.\u0026quot; Amazon is also on the cutting edge of technology, inventing algorithms and systems in machine learning, deep learning, experimentation and recommender systems. JJ often finds that the problems we face are not yet solved by academia and his team has to invent new approaches; the ability to create new approaches and to rapidly test them at scale is unlike anything JJ has experienced before. Finally, there are few places where a software engineer or applied scientist can have such a positive impact on so many people.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I see my role as helping to anticipate the technical needs of our organization and company, and helping the teams I work with to build solutions to those needs in a scalable way. My leadership style is to \u0026ldquo;lead from the front\u0026rdquo;; I try to commit code daily, focusing on high-risk approaches to existing problems or exploratory research and development into new problems. I also try to help the engineers in our organization in a number of ways, including conceiving, scoping and planning projects, helping to generate new approaches to problems, and finding a good alignment between the engineer\u0026rsquo;s skills and passions and the organization\u0026rsquo;s needs. I also participate in the strategic leadership of our organization, where I give input on the business direction (e.g., optimization strategy, generating new business ideas, external collaborations). Last, I spend a lot of time with teams in my organization prioritizing to make sure we are focusing efforts on ideas which have significant business value or infrastructure which sets our company up for success in the future.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026rsquo;s a unique ability to influence both the business and the technical direction of the company as a principal engineer at Amazon. In the same day, JJ might be working on a new approach to an unsolved optimization problem, mentoring a talented engineer on how to run a project, meeting with leadership to discuss how to best focus Amazon\u0026#39;s resources to improve the customer experience, and meeting with a senior vice president to discuss strategic initiatives around the company. And in many ways, principal engineers serve as direct liaisons between engineers and business leaders around the company, allowing them to effectively communicate the needs of each.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/446/images/JJ_Tavernier.jpg?1507074524","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/446/thumbnails/JJ_Tavernier.jpg?1507074524","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":null},{"id":"shan-a","identifier":"shan-a","name":"Shan Avadhanam","first_name":"Shan","job_title":"Principal Security Engineer, Amazon Fulfillment Technology ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Being in a Cyber Security world for over a decade, I have seen many industries and verticals,\u0026quot; Shan says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;I have dealt with critical security incidents in mobile world as well as real life impacting security incidents in a FinTech world.\u0026quot; Shan has over 20 years of experience in Systems Architecture, Engineering, Mobile computing, Media Broadcasting and other adjacent markets [Automotive, Wearables, and Cyber IaaS/PasS].\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShan came to Amazon from a large financial institution as an Executive Director in their Enterprise Cyber Security as Chief Architecture Lead, securing the financial systems, designing strategies and patterns for Compartmentalization and host based enforcement. In his past life, Shan worked for a giant semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services for 17 years in San Diego CA, where he\u0026nbsp;was a senior Director of Security Engineering. While leading the security campaigns to detect and fix hundreds of critical security vulnerabilities as well as managing hundreds of externally reported security incidents, he worked in Linux systems and kernel and Android frameworks. Shan is an active inventor, with 32 US patents. His technical blog posts can be found at\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgargey%E2%80%9D\" title=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgargey”\"\u003ehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/pgargey\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Amazon empowers people to come up with innovative solutions, no matter how big or complex the challenges are,\u0026quot; he says. \u0026quot;This provides a safe environment to iterate and fail, learn from failures, and become successful. Amazon has built up such a strong culture which thinks almost in unison with a strong guidance from Leadership Principles and at the same time, being innovative and creative\u0026nbsp;in solving our own problems. I have never seen a company that is so obsessed with the customer and strives to provide solutions that are relevant to the customers, even before they ask for it.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the designs and architectures at Amazon are reviewed and approved for technical merit by Principal Engineers. In a similar manner, a Security Principal is expected to make sure Amazon\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;software, systems and technology teams are following the best security principles and adhering to the security policies and guidelines. Security Principals also run and review metrics such as vulnerability results, scan reports, audit reports and provide guidance to teams on how to be compliant with the secure software development guidelines and standards.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePrincipals of Amazon have a big role to play and have a big impact on multiple teams \u0026mdash; Shan has widespread influence as a Principal Security Engineer. \u0026quot;One day, I might be reviewing the Security architecture for an upcoming latest technology and on another day, I might be working on operational issues related to firewalls,\u0026quot; he says. \u0026quot;Similarly, another day you might find me working on a technical document to be submitted to my VP or mentoring junior engineers on how to think like a Principal Security Engineer.\u0026quot; Shan describes this\u0026nbsp;breadth in scope and impact as one of the big things that makes the principal engineering community unique at Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/447/images/Shan_picture.jpg?1507139906","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/447/thumbnails/Shan_picture.jpg?1507139907","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/irvine-california","title":"Irvine, CA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/systems-quality-security-engineering","title":"Systems, Quality, \u0026 Security Engineering"},"team":null},{"id":"michael-t","identifier":"michael-t","name":"Michael \"Terk\" Terkowitz ","first_name":"Michael","job_title":"Sr. Principal Engineer, Amazon Marketplace","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael has worked at Amazon for over 13 years, since he graduated from Harvey Mudd College.\u0026nbsp; Michael has worked on a number of different initiatives throughout his tenure at Amazon.\u0026nbsp; He started his career working on building and enhancing the job scheduler for Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Data Warehouse.\u0026nbsp; This enabled thousands of internal reports and applications to retrieve data in a timely manner.\u0026nbsp; Next he worked on building and enhancing Amazon\u0026rsquo;s revenue share calculation platform for the Seller business.\u0026nbsp; This system processes all of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s orders and is responsible for calculating the fees on all seller transactions.\u0026nbsp; Most recently, Michael worked on re-architecting our seller listing tools to enable Amazon to continue to scale to more countries, categories, and sellers.\u0026nbsp; These tools are a critical part of the process \u0026ndash; they allow millions of users annually to manage the full product lifecycle including creating products, updating the buyer facing content and setting prices.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCurrently, Michael is working on developing a strategy to bring selling products on Amazon to more entrepreneurs around the World.\u0026nbsp; This means defining a vision for how Amazon will continue to expand into new locales and businesses across the globe.\u0026nbsp; The marketplace is made up of thousands of microservices which come together to build this ability.\u0026nbsp; However, launching in new locales is typically time consuming and difficult.\u0026nbsp; His work is making it faster, cheaper, and a better experience for sellers around the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Michael\u0026#39;s experience, Principal Engineers at Amazon are empowered to make decisions for a large organization about the technology as well as the business.\u0026nbsp; They provide guidance to hundreds of engineers on technology choices, and they get to work with some of the largest systems in the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I enjoy working not only with technologists, but also senior business leaders on defining strategy.\u0026nbsp; I get to work on the most impactful projects in one of the largest companies in the world.\u0026nbsp; By any measure, small businesses are thriving on Amazon. Half of the items sold on Amazon worldwide are from small businesses that offer their products through Amazon Marketplace, many of whom also choose to use Fulfillment by Amazon as a way of making their items Prime eligible. In fact, in 2016, more than 100,000 entrepreneurs achieved over $100,000 in sales Selling on Amazon.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe role of Principal Engineer is what you make of it.\u0026nbsp; Principal Engineers at Amazon can choose to be more hands-on, giving direct feedback and authoring significant portions of code yourself.\u0026nbsp; They can choose to be more hands-off, and give guidance on large initiatives spanning organizations.\u0026nbsp; Principal Engineers are empowered to choose what they enjoy about work and make their role about that.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;As a Principal Engineer at Amazon, I am a part time mentor, part time architect, and part time hands-on engineer because I choose to be.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/448/images/Michael_Terkowitz.jpg?1507074833","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/448/thumbnails/Michael_Terkowitz.jpg?1507074834","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"amotz-m","identifier":"amotz-m","name":"Amotz Maimon ","first_name":"Amotz","job_title":"VP/Distinguished Engineer, Alexa Experience and Devices ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Amotz was the Chief Architect at Yahoo where he led Yahoo\u0026#39;s Technology Council and was responsible for technology strategy, architecture, and governance.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003eAmotz joined Amazon for a combination of reasons that revolve around innovation, people, and culture at scale.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;I always respected Amazon\u0026rsquo;s commitment to innovation and relentless drive to imagining a better future based on technology innovation. After joining, I was surprised to discover that the drive is even stronger than I expected, and runs through everything we do.\u0026rdquo;\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAmotz drives architecture and technical initiatives for the Alexa team.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003eAlexa is voice forward and \u0026ldquo;AI driven\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; a learning system based on the most advanced machine learning and neural networks techniques that always learns and gets better.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;Alexa is on the forefront of changing how people interact with computers and automated systems, moving from keyboard and screen typing to voice forward natural language interaction. Natural speech will replace most of our interaction with automated systems and computers, and we are at the very early stage of it. The level of innovation required to realize that vision, and the potential positive impact of society and people life are second to none.\u0026rdquo;\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFor Amotz, working for Amazon means pursuing aggressive innovation at scale with a group that represents the best of the best in the industry. \u0026ldquo;The culture is collaborative, supportive, and demanding.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003ePrincipal Engineers are the backbone of the tech organization; they provide direction, lead system architecture and design, teach, guide, and mentor.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003eThat makes Amazon a great place to learn, thrive, and have an impact as an engineer or an architect.\u0026rdquo;\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAmazon respects its technical people as core to its ability to innovate for customers. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:\r\n\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at Amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team: principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character:line-break\" /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/449/images/Amotz_Maimon.jpg?1507136539","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/449/thumbnails/Amotz_Maimon.jpg?1507136539","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/sunnyvale-california","title":"Sunnyvale, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"sam-g","identifier":"sam-g","name":"Sam Gigliotti ","first_name":"Sam","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Alexa Communications","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrior to joining Amazon, Sam was in Atlanta, GA, building software to deliver video to television stations. He joined Amazon in 2006 when they were just starting what would become Amazon Video and his background was a good fit for that team. Amazon video was exciting to Sam because \u0026quot;it was the first instance of Amazon providing software directly to customers outside of the website (we had a Windows application), so there were many opportunities to shape the way we go about that as a company.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSam is now working on Alexa, specifically the communication features and the Alexa mobile applications.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Ubiquitous computing has been an area of research for a long time, so it\u0026rsquo;s exciting to be part of making it real for customers. I love working on communications because if we innovate on new ways to bring people together, it can improve the quality of life for Alexa customers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor Sam, there is always something new and challenging to work on at Amazon. \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;ve been around for Kindle, Tablets, Fire TV, and now Alexa. I love the fact that at Amazon, we\u0026rsquo;re willing to undertake projects that we don\u0026rsquo;t already know how to do. Many companies seem to \u0026ldquo;stay in their lane\u0026rdquo;, but here we\u0026rsquo;ll figure it out as we go, with a combination of hiring, learning, and experimentation. For an engineer, that\u0026rsquo;s a great environment.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Amazon is very decentralized \u0026ndash; we like decisions to be made by direct owners as much as possible.\u0026quot; One aspect of the principal engineer role is to communicate across these decentralized teams. Principal Engineers serve as a kind of \u0026ldquo;message bus\u0026rdquo; for helping teams to understand if someone else has already solved a problem they are working on, or if there\u0026rsquo;s a different team with which they should collaborate. \u0026quot;It\u0026rsquo;s a good way to preserve the benefits of local decision making while avoiding some of the issues of duplication of effort. It\u0026rsquo;s also fun for me, as I get to hear about things happening all over the company.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/450/images/samgig_cropped.jpg?1518206153","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/450/thumbnails/samgig_cropped.jpg?1518206153","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"biju-b","identifier":"biju-b","name":"Biju Balakrishna Pillai ","first_name":"Biju","job_title":"Principal Systems Engineer, Device Software","description":"\u003cp\u003eBiju is an embedded system engineer with background in embedded software design and development, system software development for System on Chip (SoC), and operating systems. At Amazon, he is part of the Fire OS team, the common operating system used in many of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s digital products. He is excited to be part of the team that is shipping a number of consumer electronic products that our customers love, which are running Fire OS based software to deliver a wide range of experience.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a senior technical leader in his organization, Biju has many responsibilities that include active participation from concept to delivery of digital products, helping engineering teams in designing and building systems and software, helping in the growth of other engineers, and assisting/advising the senior leadership in technology and product roadmap. \u0026quot;I am challenged everyday with interesting and hard problems that help me to learn and grow as an engineer. I was fortunate to be part of many exciting products that Amazon has built, and look forward to being part of many more.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Biju\u0026#39;s opinion, a principal engineer, he is part of a very unique team of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s most senior technical community, an influential cross-company collective of Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished Engineers. He has had the opportunity to serve a large engineering community at Amazon beyond his own organization. \u0026quot;It\u0026rsquo;s a unique opportunity to learn and engage with a community that has a diverse domain knowledge from device manufacturing and hardware design to building large SW systems.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/451/images/biju_badge_photo.jpg?1507141099","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/451/thumbnails/biju_badge_photo.jpg?1507141100","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-devices","title":"Amazon Devices"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/sunnyvale-california","title":"Sunnyvale, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":null},{"id":"chris-d","identifier":"chris-d","name":"Chris Decenzo","first_name":"Chris","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Echo Software ","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Chris had spent his career jumping into early stage startups. \u0026ldquo;I like to take a crazy idea and then figure out how to build it - then iterate until it is successful.\u0026rdquo; His last stint was at Icontrol, an early pioneer in the Connected Home space, where he was the Chief Software Architect. \u0026ldquo;I helped to grow Icontrol from a tiny startup into an industry-recognized leader in Smart Home whose software and hardware operate in millions of homes under the brand names of ADT Pulse and Xfinity Home Security.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nToday Chris works in Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Lab126, focusing on smart audio-enabled devices for the home. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m used to being at companies that have a backlog of great ideas and need to pick just one to focus on \u0026mdash; and then can only build 10% of the features envisioned for it. 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Art has held similar roles during the many years prior at Motorola where he defined custom and semi-custom SoCs and ASICs for iDEN (NEXTEL), cellular and land mobile 2-way radio products and discrete based systems earlier.\u0026nbsp; After BlackBerry, he was at a small startup developing a 360-degree field of view video camera.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a relatively new principal at Amazon, Art is already involved with a wide variety of exciting new products and helping set direct on on our roadmap, while also investigating and leading more strategic opportunities to improve future Amazon products. 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He spent the early part of his career in Motorola developing signal processing algorithms for wireline communication devices and speech signal processing solutions before, transitioning to wireless communication systems. Varada had fun bringing complex signal processing algorithms to life in pioneering cell phones.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;At the risk of dating myself, the first wireline modem that I designed was to increase the connection speed from 300bps to 600bps. Yes, they are bits per second without any prefix I did not mean mbps! We\u0026rsquo;ve come a long way from 600bps wireline to 600Mbps wireless in this period. I was indeed lucky to be a part of this revolution and had a front row seat in both mobile and home wireless solutions. While spending time in equalization, echo cancellation and noise suppression algorithms was interesting, I was looking for opportunities to develop end to end solutions. That is how I ended up in Amazon \u0026ndash; to work on wireless solution for our first international Kindle.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCurrently, Varada is working on new initiatives that are looking to address broadband connectivity (or lack of it) in key geographies.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is exciting for him on 3 levels.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFirst: \u0026quot;There is an acute need and any good solution will have a positive impact for customers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSecond, \u0026quot;while solving these problems will help our business, to me as an engineer, I get a kick of out of solving some real gnarly technical problems. Besides this, I\u0026rsquo;m also exploring the next generation wireless technology space and how it can benefit Amazon customers (5G, ultra-low-power wireless etc.)\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Finally, besides the opportunity to work on some cool products and tackle complex problems, I get to collaborate with some of the best engineers. My peers are some of the best antenna engineers, RF system experts, network specialists, optical engineers, physicists and software engineers that exist in the industry. More importantly, they are great people to work with. Amazon has provided an environment where this strong collaboration results in products and services that help our customers. If I have to pick one reason why I stay with Amazon \u0026ndash; it is because of these folks I get to work with on a daily basis.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Devices and Services organization has scaled from releasing a single product a year to releasing many products a year. \u0026nbsp;This requires us to maintain the scrappy attitude of a startup but at the same time have mechanisms in place to scale effectively. One of Varada\u0026#39;s roles is to ensure that the right technical solutions are adopted across products. In addition to developing technical solutions, he develops systems and mechanisms to ensure that quality is maintained across all the products as we scale. Another part of his role is to look ahead and identify promising new technology that is in its infancy and develop it into solutions that could be integrated into products to help solve some of the customer problems Amazon has identified. Varada also spends a significant amount of time in building bench strength in critical technical domains by identifying and hiring the right talents.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Amazon is a place where builders can build. Principal Engineers are no exception. Being an exemplary practitioner is fundamental to be successful as a principal engineer in Amazon. In addition, one of the unique aspects of being a principal engineer at Amazon is being aware of the business constraints, being acutely aware of the customer needs and being a pragmatic problem solver, all in addition to being the technical domain expert. The breadth of expertise you develop by solving real world customer problems is highly valued. Principal Engineers play the role of a technical conscience keeper in their respective organizations.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in learning more about principal engineer roles at amazon, please contact the Senior Technical Talent Recruiting team using this email alias: \u003ca href=\"mailto:principal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\"\u003eprincipal-engineer-hiring@amazon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/454/images/IMG_0793.HEIC.jpg?1507567085","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/454/thumbnails/IMG_0793.HEIC.jpg?1507567085","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-devices","title":"Amazon Devices"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/cupertino-california","title":"Cupertino, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/hardware-development","title":"Hardware Development"},"team":null},{"id":"leo-b","identifier":"leo-b","name":"Leo Baldwin","first_name":"Leo","job_title":"Principal Hardware Engineer, Devices ","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeo joined Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Lab126 in Sunnyvale 7 years ago from a solar-energy start-up.\u0026nbsp; Before that he was creating nanostructures with an ultrafast laser. Prior to that, Leo designed machine vision systems.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeo came to Amazon to work on the Fire Phone. \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;m the guy who put 6 cameras on a cell phone.\u0026nbsp; A very exciting time.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp; He has also worked on a few other projects like Echo Show.\u0026nbsp; After 5 years, Leo left Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Lab126 for GoPro Research.\u0026nbsp; Eight months later Leo was back at Amazon, but in Seattle, to work on the technology that enables Amazon Go!\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;They call people like me \u0026ldquo;boomerangs\u0026rdquo;.\u0026nbsp; I am glad to be back at Amazon.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeo is currently working on a new secret project.\u0026nbsp; \u0026quot;Creation and invention get me going.\u0026nbsp; Our new product is just now taking shape.\u0026nbsp; This is the most exciting phase of a project for me.\u0026nbsp; Our goals are ambitious, and our product will be very beneficial to our customers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I am at Amazon because of the opportunity to make a difference.\u0026nbsp; Everybody on a team at Amazon is given a huge role.\u0026nbsp; Even new grads are given responsibility for key aspects of a product, with the appropriate supervision and mentorship of course.\u0026nbsp; With that much responsibility comes the opportunity to really create something new, innovative and significant. 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He interned at IBM (Austin) in the mid-80s and then was an engineer at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Labs in New Jersey from \u0026lsquo;87 to 94 in a division that built switching network support systems. He came to the west coast after that to work at Sybase in Relational database performance till \u0026rsquo;98 and then joined a small Enterprise Content Management company (Documentum) that was eventually acquired by EMC. His efforts ranged over both client and service software and were focused primarily on performance and scalability serving a wide number of Industry verticals including: Banking, Insurance, Intelligence, Publishing, Government, and Pharmaceuticals. 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An additional energizing aspect of Leo\u0026#39;s job is being part of the synergy of the engineering, science, UX, and product teams building awesome capabilities to delight our customers. \u0026quot;We are entirely focused on making music discovery effortless and enjoyable. \u0026nbsp;I personally enjoy building prototypes and analyzing customer data to gain further insight to those goals.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeo continues to work at Amazon because the values of the company are aligned with my own, starting with customer obsession. Leo appreciates the culture created by Amazon\u0026rsquo;s leadership principles, which are existential choices that recognize the conflicting tension of values like moving fast but trying to hold highest standards. \u0026quot;Also, the company is just technically bold and organized to take chances, move fast, and deliver. All of this is backed up by some of the most intelligent people I\u0026rsquo;ve been able to work with. 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I was relatively established by the time my husband began his terminal leave and joined me in Seattle, so that helped us transition too.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon Military (AM) asked Tiff (TC) to share advice with other military spouses about her journey.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026rsquo;s more from her success story and what she wants all military spouses to know:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What do you love about working at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTC: I am just one year into my career at Amazon as an Innovation and Design Engineer, designing material handling systems for Amazon Air buildings. I love the learning curve at Amazon and really appreciate the energy and intelligence of all my coworkers. Working with such passionate, driven people is a pleasure! I am just starting to understand the diversity of opportunity here too, and I am so excited for the path ahead. I am an industrial engineer, a transitioning military spouse, and a proud Amazonian.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What was your experience as a military spouse, and how did it affect your employment?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTC: I met my husband over ten years ago while he was finishing his undergrad degree in Arizona, and he had already signed up for the Navy\u0026rsquo;s Bachelor Degree Completion Program, an eight-year active duty commitment. Ten months after we started dating, he departed for Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island, followed by two years of flight school in Florida, and a three-year sea tour based out of Whidbey Island, WA, where he traveled all over the world as an EP-3E Naval Flight Officer. During those years, I stayed in Arizona, working to advance my career as an engineer and operations manager with a defense contractor. When he completed his sea tour, he prioritized shore tour locations where I was most likely to find the right job opportunity. In early 2014, I left my career in Arizona, and we both relocated to Maryland to (finally) get married. He was stationed at the Office of Naval Intelligence, and I searched for a role and became familiar with some of the available resources for military spouses, including Fleet and Family services on base. Through their help and my professional network, within a few months I started in a principle industrial engineering role in Baltimore but knew it would be short term. The move to Maryland was not the strongest in career progression for either of us, but it supported our life together. All said, in my experience, the most difficult part of balancing a career as a military spouse is working on the balance of joint prioritization as a family.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: How did you get your Amazon job, and what was the interview process like?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTC: When my husband was in the last six months of his Navy commitment, he decided not to extend his contract. At that time, I started looking for roles in our planned area of the Pacific Northwest. Through LinkedIn, a recruiter reached out to me with a great opportunity as an Innovation \u0026amp; Design Engineer with Amazon. I had the chance to interview onsite in Seattle, and I specifically remember coming into the Arizona building on a Friday morning, where the lobby had a coffee shop with a disco ball blaring 90\u0026rsquo;s music. I loved the energy! Only a few days later I had an offer in hand, and I was excited to accept and begin our new adventure.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What was your onboarding experience like? Have you had a chance to connect with veterans and military spouses at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTC: Amazon has been a great transition for us. My first few weeks went quickly, from orientation in Phoenix to a week in a fulfillment center in California where I began to appreciate the size and scale of operations while meeting great, energetic people. When I arrived in Seattle, I quickly connected with my new coworkers, some of whom are also former military or military spouses. I was relatively established by the time my husband began his terminal leave and joined me in Seattle, so that helped us transition too. He since has started in his post-military career in an electrician apprenticeship, and we are creating our life in Seattle. We even spent our first Christmas here with a prior Air Force officer and his wife, now good friends of ours.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What skills from your experience as a military spouse translated into your job at Amazon?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTC: As all veterans and spouses know, military life requires a level of adaptability. This has served me well at Amazon, as the pace requires quick adaptation to changing priorities, organizational growth, and customer demand. Also, being a military spouse often requires that you spend time building and maintaining relationships, which also serves in any field \u0026ndash; especially engineering, where the engineer jokes can ring quite true!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAM: What one piece of advice do you have for other military spouses?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTC: For any military spouses looking to build and maintain their career, I recommend leveraging your network and using the services available on base, online, or within your network. Both Fleet and Family services and companies like Amazon are looking to be a resource to military families, and they understand the challenges of military life. You are not in it alone \u0026ndash; there are others that have been in your shoes and are here to help!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/480/images/TiffTulips.jpg?1508944448","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/480/thumbnails/TiffTulips.jpg?1508944449","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/design","title":"Design"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/engineering-fulfillment","title":"Engineering and IT"}},{"id":"isabelle-e","identifier":"isabelle-e","name":"Isabelle E.","first_name":"Isabelle","job_title":"Cooperative Education Student, Business and Logistics Management","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsabelle started her studies in cooperation with Amazon in Bad Hersfeld in August 2016. 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Amazon enables the students to already have impact on its progress during their studies.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/485/images/marc-540.jpg?1510047932","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/485/thumbnails/marc-300.jpg?1510047932","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bad-hersfeld-germany","title":"Bad Hersfeld, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":null},{"id":"chris-p","identifier":"chris-p","name":"Chris P.","first_name":"Chris","job_title":"Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Chris built TV broadcast systems for large-scale customers. Chris reckons it was an interesting role, but he didn\u0026rsquo;t think he was making a really positive difference. \u0026ldquo;Looking around the industry, there are some clear trends that are changing the world,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;Only a few companies can work at the scale to have a real impact. Amazon is one of these companies, and specifically with Alexa we are leading natural language systems.\u0026rdquo; Chris thinks the future will prove the importance of natural language interfaces as Alexa gets smarter and customers use voice to make their lives even easier. When asked why he works for Amazon, Chris simply answers: \u0026ldquo;Who doesn\u0026rsquo;t want to be a part of that change in how we live?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn his past experiences, Chris worked with hundreds of teams across cultures, regions and backgrounds. \u0026ldquo;The people in Amazon are totally unique,\u0026rdquo; he explains. \u0026ldquo;The people here are all highly motivated whatever their role is; no one ever says it\u0026rsquo;s not their job. 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I don\u0026rsquo;t have to be airborne to be having fun; my best days are wild camping on the river bank with friends.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/488/images/Chris.jpg?1518486264","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/488/thumbnails/Chris.jpg?1518486264","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/cambridge-uk","title":"Cambridge, England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-information","title":"Alexa Information"}},{"id":"thomas-e","identifier":"thomas-e","name":"Thomas E.","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"Senior Partner Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas\u0026rsquo;s journey with Amazon started three years ago, and he appreciates the\u0026nbsp;multidisciplinary challenges in his role as a Partner Manager on the Amazon Pay team. \u0026ldquo;Working with inspiring colleagues who are always eager to help you to improve, collaborate, and provide honest feedback simplifies the process of driving innovation for thousands of customers,\u0026rdquo; Thomas explains. \u0026ldquo;Working at Amazon is highly driven by numbers, efficiency and scalability \u0026ndash; and all those are the nicest melody to my ears!\u0026rdquo; Thomas adds that his peculiarity is \u0026ldquo;precision to at least\u0026nbsp;99,99999999%.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThomas is amazed that anyone regardless of working area or job level has a chance to drive new projects, which can be rolled out on a global level for Amazon customers. \u0026ldquo;Diversity and challenges that Amazon offers never let you get bored and keep you on your toes,\u0026rdquo; he says. When asked about his favorite part about working at Amazon, Thomas answers: \u0026ldquo;As it\u0026rsquo;s still day one, sometimes I don\u0026rsquo;t really know what new challenges the day might bring. But we\u0026rsquo;re always eager to find a solution.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Thomas\u0026nbsp;treasures time with his friends and family. 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He is excited by Amazon\u0026rsquo;s constant innovation on behalf of the customer. \u0026ldquo;I love working for a company that is so ambitious,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eElliot\u0026rsquo;s role requires working closely with various teams such as Alexa, Prime Air, and Amazon Fresh, and Eliot gets the chance to learn about the projects they work on. \u0026ldquo;There are not many companies where you can have that interaction,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Elliot loves to get involved in the start-up and business community \u0026ndash; attending pitching events, meet-ups and investment evenings. 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George received an offer to join the Amazon Pay team. \u0026ldquo;The Amazon Pay team is small but growing,\u0026rdquo; he adds. \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a great energy in the team and the real belief that it\u0026rsquo;s still Day 1!\u0026rdquo; For George, this startup spirit grows accountability and ownership in the team.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs an Associate Account Manager, George connects daily with teams sitting in multiple countries, and he likes that he gets to learn from the experiences of those teams and individuals. \u0026ldquo;Everyone I\u0026rsquo;ve met at Amazon has been smart, intelligent and always eager to help out,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn his free time, George loves Italian cooking: he makes his own pasta as his own way of meditating. 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After that, Yoelle went back to research at Yahoo, where she started a research team in Haif, \u0026nbsp;Israel and then ended up guiding Yahoo research worldwide, working ads, search and mail (and of course mail search). \u0026quot;I am a true believer in Applied Research in Industry, where scientists can launch innovative products and features that impact millions of people and share their results with the research community.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I have a sweet spot for WSDM, as I had the chance to witness its inception. I love its single track format and that every paper has a chance for an oral slot (even if a short spotlight one). I served as PC co-chair at WSDM\u0026rsquo;2012 and I am honored to \u0026nbsp;serve as PC co-chair again this year with Yan Liu.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What I love at Amazon is the customer obsession. 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Eventually, this change was rolled out worldwide, and now affects every item shipped by Amazon from warehouses using sorters.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter an adventurous 10 months in AFT, Dhyey decided to join the Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) Forecasting group to gain some hands-on experience with big data and have a chance to work with cutting-edge Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies. He has been with them for about six months now.\u0026nbsp; His new team, Storage and Access Systems (STAX), owns systems and services that enable the SCOT Forecasting organization to write, read and share terabytes of data. \u0026ldquo;I am thrilled by the amount of innovation happening on this team!\u0026rdquo; he exclaims. When asked about teammates and the team culture, he answers, \u0026ldquo;I am amazed how well the team gels together! Everyone is so friendly and helpful! Having a great team not only makes working easier and enjoyable, but also improves the customer experience through the delivery and maintenance of high quality software. I consider myself very fortunate to be a part of one such game-changing team.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he is not at work, Dhyey likes to watch movies, play badminton, and learn about machine learning. 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There is so much I can learn here and tons of opportunity to interact with senior engineers. Forecasting at Amazon is a unique challenge \u0026ndash; there are literally millions of products to forecast for and very few companies are able to operate at this scale. The sheer size and scope of Amazon combined with the fast pace mean we get to work with some of the latest and greatest big data technologies,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a member of the Forecasting organization Alexander has an impact on every item sold by Amazon. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s really amazing,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;Every item is forecasted and all the data for forecasting flows through my team. 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After the interview, I was intrigued and exhilarated! How could an interview be both challenging and fun? I wanted to work there.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp; Mabel has been with the Customer Service team since, working on projects that assist customer associates serve customers better. Most recently, she has been working on \u0026quot;How\u0026#39;s My Driving?\u0026quot;, a product that records feedback from customers after an interaction with customer service. \u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;One of Amazon\u0026#39;s leadership principles is Customer Obsession. We want honest feedback from our customers on how we are doing and seek to continuously improve in order to earn and keep our customers\u0026rsquo; trust.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Amazon is a place where there are endless opportunities to learn and grow. I teach sessions to new Software Development Engineers on how to use the tools at Amazon that make our development process faster. 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Since then Beth has helped guide more than 30 startups in a variety of fields as a founder, investor, or advisor. She is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and am a leader in the field of Virtual Reality. Beth holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where she also served as a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering department, helping teach the senior mechanical engineering capstone project class. Beth received a Ph.D. in Biomechanics from the Imperial College, London, where she was a Marshall Scholar and am currently serving as a mentor to the Enterprise Laboratory.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCurrently, Beth is working as a senior principal at Amazon Robotics where she is working with some of the smartest people in the industry to solve the hardest problems in robotics. Beth loves working on challenges that will have a significant impact and seeing her solutions in action in the real world almost immediately at Amazon fulfillment centers. \u0026quot;I especially love mentoring young engineers and women to innovate and create the future. We are on the precipice of huge advances in the field of robotics with the potential for new technology to become more deeply integrated into our everyday lives. Contrary to what some may say, robotics simply makes tasks more efficient and allows people to shift their focus to more sophisticated activities. It\u0026rsquo;s exciting to see the pace of innovation and the potential that exists in robotics.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat attracted Beth to Amazon was the great group of people with diverse technical backgrounds, the difficulty of the problems they were solving, the willingness to try things and fail fast like a startup, and the impact of the solutions once developed on the Amazon Fulfillment facilities worldwide. 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Tomasz was a few days on the job when it became clear to him that the Amazon Leadership Principles were not just some nice words painted on the offices\u0026rsquo; walls. \u0026ldquo;You feel that the Leadership Principles are really part of your everyday work,\u0026rdquo; explains Tomasz. \u0026nbsp;Customer Obsession is the most important one to him: working backwards from the customers challenges the team to continuously innovate on their behalf. Using this Amazon Leadership Principles makes sense to Tomasz\u0026rsquo;s job. \u0026ldquo;Every day, I feel I\u0026rsquo;m part of something meaningful,\u0026rdquo; he adds, \u0026ldquo;Not as an observer standing aside, but as a creator of our future; encouraged to take ownership.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe other Amazon Leadership Principle that Tomasz considers as key to be successful in his job is Dealing with Ambiguity. \u0026ldquo;I can easily adapt to new situations. 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In the other part, he is involved in the long term planning of efforts, consultations, and people development plus learning something new every day!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I like working at Amazon, as it has a unique mixture of being a global company but also having a start-up culture. \u0026nbsp;Creativity, experimentation and discovery are part of the daily life. Promising ideas can rapidly turn into a product that is used by millions of people. Working on something that matters for people was the main driver for me during all of my career and Amazon is an ideal place for this.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;As a principal engineer at Amazon, you become part of a community of highly skilled people connected across the globe. You can\u0026rsquo;t apply a template for how you interact in that environment, it is on you to define your role and main focus and thus also how this community will evolve. 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Redshift Spectrum enables customers to run Redshift analytics beyond data stored on local disks, in order to query very large amounts of unstructured data in an Amazon S3 \u0026ldquo;data lake\u0026rdquo; -- without having to load or transform any data.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e Redshift Spectrum is an exciting offering because it enables customers to process unprecedented amounts of data using a state-of-the-art query optimizer and execution engine. This enables new use cases for our customers. \u0026quot;I am particularly happy with the technology behind Redshift Spectrum--a fully elastic, parallel and multi-tenant data processing microservice.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003eIppokratis loves the tremendous focus on our customers. Everyday at Amazon, teams innovate in order to enable AWS customers. For his team, the goal is to enable AWS customers to gain insights, manage data in a secure, scalable and economical way. In order to do that, AWS needs to build innovative data management systems.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003eThe technical challenges a technologist faces at AWS are unique. For example, the scale AWS operates at is unprecedented. \u0026quot;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003eI have excellent collaborators that challenge me daily and make me strive to create better products and services for our customers. It is a great team and I try being a role model for them.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e Lastly, the leadership deeply cares about the career growth of its employees.\u0026quot;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003eIn summary, AWS is a unique working environment that has disrupted the enterprise, and where Ippokratis believes he can grow and advance his career while pushing the boundaries of computer science.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character:line-break\" /\u003e\r\nA principal engineer is a subject expert and a technical leader. She or he leads by example, working on challenging technical issues, and providing direction and vision to the team. 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These experiences have provided him the ability to adapt to different situations, cultures and work environments.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBinoy joined Amazon two\u0026nbsp;years ago and to this day, enjoys coming to work every day. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;To me, it was a Hobson\u0026rsquo;s choice,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;he says. \u0026ldquo;I could spend several years working at other companies to learn about Devices, Music Streaming, Movie Studios, Retail, Online marketplace, Search, Software and Cloud Services, Online Advertising, or simply just join Amazon and learn about all of those industries at one place.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBinoy started out in Finance Operations and soon, was offered the opportunity to lead Amazon\u0026rsquo;s SOX Compliance team. This role gave him the vantage point to all of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s businesses globally.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;With Amazon at the forefront of innovation and disruption, it offers me the opportunity to continuously learn and develop new skills in the ever evolving new products and services\u0026rdquo;, he says. \u0026ldquo;The ability to work with smart people who are constantly raising the bar has been a constant adrenaline rush for me. \u0026nbsp;Just like the diverse industries we serve, we are a collection of smart people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, skillsets, and experiences from around the world \u0026ndash; this includes the diversity of thought that make it a very engaging place to work.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe continues, \u0026ldquo;The pace of change and the complexity at Amazon always keeps me on my toes and provides all the challenges I could aspire for in a career, he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a firm believer of \u0026ldquo;Pay It Forward,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Binoy actively volunteers for causes related to literacy, education, children and employment. 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Her resolution for this year is to use less non-recyclable plastic in her daily life because, as she says, \u0026ldquo;if everyone does their part \u0026ndash; no matter how small \u0026ndash; we can save this planet!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/526/images/Anne.jpg?1519348123","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/526/thumbnails/Anne.jpg?1519348123","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/seller-services","title":"Marketplace"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/luxembourg-city-luxembourg","title":"Luxembourg City, Luxembourg"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/translation-team","title":"Translation Team"}},{"id":"shankar-a","identifier":"shankar-a","name":"Shankar A.","first_name":"Shankar","job_title":"Senior Manager, Applied Science ","description":"\u003cp\u003eShankar joined the Alexa Machine Learning team in March 2014 as a Senior Scientist, several months before the first Amazon Echo device shipped in late 2014. He now leads a team of scientists and engineers focusing on natural language understanding (NLU), a key component within the Alexa Voice Service that \u0026ldquo;interprets\u0026rdquo; customer requests and enables Alexa to respond appropriately.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShankar\u0026rsquo;s team employs state-of-the-art machine learning approaches to build accurate, context-aware, cross-lingual language understanding models that are capable of interpreting a variety of customer requests of Alexa, effectively resolving ambiguity and translating them to canonical forms used by downstream applications that invoke actions by Alexa.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe challenge of making Alexa smarter every day and a natural part of our everyday lives is what motivates him.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;When I first joined the team I didn\u0026rsquo;t realize just how big and ambitious this initiative really is,\u0026rdquo; said Shankar. \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s incredibly exciting for speech scientists like myself is how algorithmic innovations in machine learning and data science have created a sophisticated voiced-based AI like Alexa, and how our work on improving this technology has a positive impact on the day-to-day lives of millions of customers using it.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;In our world,\u0026rdquo; he continues, \u0026ldquo;data are the new oil. It\u0026rsquo;s what we need to continually make Alexa smarter.\u0026nbsp; We\u0026rsquo;re incredibly fortunate here at Amazon.\u0026nbsp; We have the cloud computing resources and the data we need to continually challenge ourselves to provide a better experience for our customers.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShankar has more than 15 years of academic and industry experience in applying machine learning to solve complex problems in speech and language processing. 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Before coming to Amazon, Salal had experienced diverse work environments, from established research labs (IBM T.J. Watson, Bell Labs, GTE/Verizon Labs, etc.) to startup cultures (Optiant Inc., Logility Inc.), startup academic environments (LUMS School of Science and Engineering in Pakistan), and traditional academic environments (MIT, Harvard School of Public Health). His experience at Amazon has combined the best of all these experiences, the rigor of an academic/research environment, the implementation resources only large companies can bring to bear, and the mission-driven excitement and execution speed of a startup. 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On a global scale, his team provides a high standard of operational excellence to all customers of Amazon Web Services. When asked what excites him most at work, he states that \u0026ldquo;taking ownership of projects - such as finding ways to automate a task to reduce the rate of error.\u0026quot; Additionally, he challenges himself to solve problems that directly impact process improvements.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nPrior to Amazon, he spent ten\u0026nbsp;years in the US Air Force strengthening his leadership skills.\u0026nbsp; Striving to put his best foot forward, he is constantly critical of the work he does. He notices \u0026ldquo;little details that may seem trivial to some.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp; Similarly, one of his favorite parts about working at Amazon is the Leadership Principles that drive the innovation and culture.\u0026nbsp; Jessie explains that being a leader requires a strong drive to learn and be curious.\u0026nbsp; He states that \u0026ldquo;a continuous cycle of learning provides for new ideas and improvements.\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, he enjoys spending his free time doing activities outdoors.\u0026nbsp; This includes snowboarding in the winter or hiking in the summer.\u0026nbsp; However, he also enjoys playing competitive online games on his PC and binge watching TV shows.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/529/images/jsmith-543.jpg?1519691340","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/529/thumbnails/jsmith-543.jpg?1519691341","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/operations-it-support-engineering","title":"Operations, IT, \u0026 Support Engineering"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/awsintelligence","title":"AWS Cleared Jobs"}},{"id":"karen-p","identifier":"karen-p","name":"Karen P.","first_name":"Karen","job_title":"Head of Amazon Pay, UK","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eKaren loves all things Start-up. 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Her best memory so far was her visit to the Amazon Go store in Seattle. \u0026ldquo;It is great to see something completely new and\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan pre=\"and \"\u003einnovative\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;in the market created by Amazon,\u0026rdquo; she exclaims.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOn her time-off, Karen loves to\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan pre=\"to \"\u003etravel -\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;She has lived in 9 countries and visited 56.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eKaren shares her passion to start-up business \u0026ndash; she is a mentor for Hatch, an organisation that helps disadvantaged young people start their own social enterprises.\u0026nbsp;She also volunteers for Tamar, an organisation in the fight against Modern Slavery in London.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/530/images/Karen-P543.jpg?1519812117","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/530/thumbnails/Karen-Profile300.jpg?1519812117","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/seller-services","title":"Marketplace"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/london","title":"London (Greater London Area), England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/sales-advertising-account-management","title":"Sales, Advertising, \u0026 Account Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/payments","title":"Amazon Pay"}},{"id":"carla-r","identifier":"carla-r","name":"Carla R. 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Their mission is to localize products from the US to the Brazilian marketplace, and this is where her experience as a freelancer comes into play. \u0026ldquo;As a freelancer, you usually develop multitasking abilities. You deal with CAT tools, invoicing, QA, translation, accounting\u0026hellip; Somehow, all these activities are important in what I do today at Amazon\u0026rdquo;.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSuch a radical move would not be possible without the support Carla received from the Translation Team department. Since Day 1, she was assigned a mentor, who helped her in the first weeks of transition. \u0026ldquo;The mentor was crucial, because I had not worked for such a big company before. She showed everything, from processes and tools to HR issues\u0026rdquo;, she says.\u0026nbsp; Working at Amazon means learning at least one new thing per day, and this is what Carla loves about the company. There is a lot to do, many possibilities to grow and develop her career.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nIn her free time, Carla has been dedicating herself to explore Luxembourg and nearby cities and countries with her family. 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For the past seven years, Jia has worked at Amazon, where her appetite for working with and analyzing data is more than satiated.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2011, Jia joined Amazon as a software development engineer, where she and colleagues developed from the ground up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime\"\u003eAmazon Prime\u003c/a\u003e marketing platform, which allows the company to target the right message to the right person at the right time.\u0026nbsp; During her time with the Prime team, the service grew significantly, as did her career.\u0026nbsp; In 2016, she was promoted to software development manager.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2017, Jia sought a new challenge within Amazon, and joined the Alexa Science team as a software development manager, a role that continues to fulfill her love of data.\u0026nbsp; In fact, the biggest challenge that Jia and her 10-person development team face is finding the wheat from the chaff from the huge amount of data her team must sift through to help train Alexa language models.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJia and team collaborate with scientists to help make Alexa smarter.\u0026nbsp; Specifically, she and her team are working on the challenge of how customers can engage with Alexa in a more natural, conversational way.\u0026nbsp; An example: \u0026ldquo;Alexa, what\u0026rsquo;s the weather in Seattle today? 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They work on improving the automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance of Alexa in different languages across multiple devices such as Echo, FireTV and Dash. Yulan\u0026rsquo;s team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to make ASR models more robust in different application scenarios so Alexa may understand and communicate with customers in a more human-like way.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Working with the production system helps me understand the gap between research algorithms and application requirements,\u0026rdquo; says Yulan. \u0026ldquo;My job is to motivate, fulfil and lead long-term ASR research projects to address such gap.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eYulan\u0026rsquo;s most recent project - and her proudest moment so far -\u0026nbsp; was to build the Australian English ASR model that helped bring the Alexa experience to the Australian Echo customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn top of the satisfaction of seeing the large-scale impact of her work, Yulan appreciates the learning opportunities that Amazon work environment offers. \u0026ldquo;Experts from different backgrounds work closely together for a shared business goal,\u0026rdquo; she explains. \u0026ldquo;Thanks to that, I have learned a lot beside my speciality field since joining Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eYulan describes the Amazon culture as being very international, diverse and vivid; where expressing and discussing different opinions is encouraged. \u0026ldquo;The leadership principles provide an effective framework for the team to ensure the right speed of business,\u0026rdquo; she adds. In her opinion, \u0026lsquo;Ownership\u0026rsquo; is the Leadership Principle that is the most important in her day job. \u0026ldquo;When I started working on the production system, I saw an opportunity to improve the methods used for information sharing,\u0026rdquo; she explains. \u0026ldquo;I created a guide page to share my knowledge, and encouraged everyone else to join.\u0026rdquo; Yulan\u0026rsquo;s initiative resulted in new hires rating the guide page as very useful to quickly onboard the production system.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer other strength is her ability to think big. \u0026ldquo;Vision is very important to me. I feel like I\u0026rsquo;m on track only when I have a clear global picture,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, Yulan likes playing badminton a lot. When she moved to Sheffield, UK, for her PhD, she launched a weekly badminton event. 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This environment presents Leah and team a number of interesting machine-learning challenges to address.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor several years, Leah has been interested in applying technology to language, and using language to do interesting things with technology. She joined the Alexa team in the fall of 2016 because \u0026ldquo;Alexa is the most exciting product in the field right now. I worked on much smaller academic projects. But Alexa\u0026rsquo;s dialog system is actually being used by millions of people every day; she\u0026rsquo;s playing a meaningful role in people\u0026rsquo;s lives. 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Anna was thrilled as she did not want to leave Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I am thankful for my manager\u0026rsquo;s support as I see Amazon as a company I can potentially spend my entire professional career switching between different roles and learning and growing constantly without ever having to change company \u0026ndash; now that\u0026rsquo;s a real bonus!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/539/images/Anna_543x543.jpg?1524587630","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/539/thumbnails/Anna_543x543.jpg?1524587630","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-customer-service","title":"Amazon Customer Service"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/luxembourg-city-luxembourg","title":"Luxembourg City, Luxembourg"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/customer-service-technology","title":"Customer Service Technology "}},{"id":"harmony-h","identifier":"harmony-h","name":"Harmony H.","first_name":"Harmony","job_title":"Senior Design Producer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHarmony\u0026#39;s describes her\u0026nbsp;first year at Amazon\u0026nbsp;like a crazy dream. 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And that makes me happy,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than 20 years, Harmony worked at advertising agencies, so being connected to and serving the customer is refreshing, as are the Amazon Leadership Principles. She explains, \u0026ldquo;At my previous companies, mission statements and values often felt forced. At Amazon, the Leadership Principles aren\u0026rsquo;t just talk. There isn\u0026rsquo;t a day that goes by where a principle doesn\u0026rsquo;t get quoted by someone. It helps to keep us all aligned to the same goals.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer co-workers might say that Harmony\u0026rsquo;s strongest leadership principle is Bias for Action. She loves charging ahead on a new idea, especially when it involves learning a new skill. \u0026ldquo;Learning new things keeps my brain sharp. 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They have their act together! How could I make an impact?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJackie found that working for Amazon provides many opportunities to make a huge impact. \u0026ldquo;I got to launch a fulfillment center in Canada in a six month period, lead more than 3,000 people at a center in San Bernardino, CA, and now I am developing technologies to make our operations safer and enable our growth.\u0026nbsp; At Amazon\u0026rsquo;s pace and scale, you can make a significant impact quickly and have the autonomy to do so.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Director of R\u0026amp;D Center Operations in Robotics, Jackie is creating the future of fulfillment by developing, testing and deploying automation technologies across our worldwide operations. \u0026ldquo;I have the opportunity to work amazing and talented people \u0026ndash; operations leaders, engineers, program managers, procurement, safety engineering, reliability engineering and legal. 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Using data-driven creative insights to deliver stronger campaign performance is at the heart of her team\u0026rsquo;s effort. \u0026ldquo;We build trust as product, process and industry experts, serving as strategic consultants, project managers and gatekeepers of Amazon policy and creative quality. Through timely and flawless campaign management, we strive to provide our advertisers with a seamless, best-in-class experience while simultaneously enhancing a customer\u0026rsquo;s shopping experience on Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Heather can be found exploring all that Seattle has to offer with her husband and two young boys. \u0026ldquo;I love that Amazon has allowed me to follow my career aspirations while also raising a family. There really is no ceiling on what you can accomplish here which continues to inspire and motivate me on a daily basis.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/546/images/Heather-K.jpg?1525739274","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/546/thumbnails/Heather-K.jpg?1525739274","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/marketing-pr","title":"Marketing \u0026 PR"},"team":null},{"id":"jean-luc-n","identifier":"jean-luc-n","name":"Jean-Luc N. 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I had never done anything like this before but they trusted my plan and my ability to execute. It was an incredibly empowering experience.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n12 months later, Jean-Luc was running a small team of product managers and was the single threaded leader for new seller acquisition in Europe.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFast forward 7 years\u0026hellip; Jean-Luc has been working at Amazon\u0026rsquo;s headquarters in Seattle since 2012 and is now running a product team in the advertising group. \u0026ldquo;Every role I had \u0026ndash; from marketing to product management \u0026ndash; has been about personal and professional growth. I\u0026rsquo;ve run teams spanning from 2 people to 60 people. I\u0026rsquo;ve been able to bring my ideas forward and execute on them. 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They are a rich problem space at the intersection of technology, economics, data, and human psychology that expose value at scale. As a student he built a \u0026ldquo;tutor\u0026rdquo; exchange for college students, and as an entrepreneur developed a fantasy sports exchange based on sports statistics and AI-models for player negotiations.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAfter more than a decade working in roles as a media publisher, buyer, and seller, Scott now enjoys leveraging this 360\u0026deg; view of the advertising marketplaces to empower digital publishers to easily grow their own thriving businesses. Scott and his team enable publishers to focus on their customers by doing what they do best: publishing.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon has been offering publishers a header bidding solution for more than four years. Our own surveys have shown that we have the largest header bidding program by number of live domains amongst comScore\u0026rsquo;s top 250 US domains, with integrations spanning web, mobile and video. We\u0026rsquo;re continuing to improve on that offering with Amazon Publisher Services by helping publishers build, monetize and grow their digital media businesses. As the Head of Engineering at Amazon Publisher Services, Scott and his team have the opportunity to improve our offerings to publishers at scale. \u0026ldquo;Our technology helps surface marketplace value for publishers, advertisers, and consumers. 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In other words, they take in text (e.g. \u0026lsquo;What is the capital of France?\u0026rsquo;), translate it into a language-independent interpretation, and figure out what the answer should be (\u0026lsquo;Paris\u0026rsquo;). Natural language is complex and Alexa customers can ask questions in many different ways. Priyanka\u0026rsquo;s goal is to create an accurate and robust system. \u0026ldquo;I want our system to be able to handle anything a customer asks,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOne may wonder why someone with a theoretical linguistic background would want to join Amazon. Priyanka loves the fact that the work she does goes into production and has an immediate impact on customers around the world. She found out that her team members were curious about her linguistic knowledge. 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Customers use Visual Search to find products by pointing their camera at a product or barcode. For example, customers can tap the camera icon within the Amazon App, select Product Search and then point their camera at a shoe they like and the app will surface similar shoes as a result. \u0026nbsp;Visual Search technology includes barcode and credit card scanners, AR View which allows customers to see how a product looks in their home before they buy it and Package X-ray which allows a customer to see what\u0026rsquo;s inside their Amazon box without even opening it. These solutions are powered by a variety of computer vision solutions such as instance matching, object detection, scene text recognition, 3D reconstruction and augmented reality.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eManmatha was previously a research associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work there focused on the automatic annotation and retrieval of images and videos and also on document and handwriting retrieval. His students and he built the first demonstration system to retrieve historical document manuscripts (and tested it on a set of George Washington\u0026rsquo;s correspondence). He also co-founded a mobile image search startup SnapTell to do instance matching on products. This was bought by Amazon in 2009 and became part of Visual Search\u0026rsquo;s offering.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;What I find interesting at Amazon is the range of computer vision problems that one can work on. For example, just for recognizing product images one has to adopt a large variety of different approaches. Further, all these problems have to be solved at scale. Our instance matching solution alone searches over 300 million items and at that scale one of the issues we face is that it becomes harder to discriminate between images. 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As a Product Manager, I have had numerous opportunities to flex my creative muscles and present new ideas to leaders in our organization.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Ryan takes full advantage of Seattle\u0026rsquo;s outdoor community and backcountry access. \u0026ldquo;Coming from the Midwest, it\u0026rsquo;s a little mind boggling that I can drive an hour and transition from skyscrapers to world class skiing, hiking, and climbing. Then, Ryan adds, there is always the joy of seeing Mount Rainier, an awe-inspiring volcano that dominates the city\u0026rsquo;s skyline.\u0026rdquo; Ryan skis all year and is working towards summiting all of Washington and Oregon\u0026rsquo;s prominent volcanoes.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;I can see myself working at Amazon for a long time. There seem to be endless opportunities to work in new fields on new projects all across the world.\u0026rdquo; Amazon is committed to hiring and developing the best, and it promotes a laissez-faire approach to internal transfers and the continual development of its employees.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/565/images/Ryan_Kennedy_300x300.jpg?1527687163","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/565/thumbnails/Ryan_Kennedy_300x300.jpg?1527687163","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":null},{"id":"chris-s","identifier":"chris-s","name":"Chris S.","first_name":"Chris","job_title":"Product Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Chris worked in process improvement and project management; he focused on developing and executing innovative products and solutions in several industries including healthcare, travel and logistics. He then made the leap to Amazon as a product manager on the Fulfillment Execution Data Science (FEDS) team. \u0026ldquo;Coming to Amazon was a dream come true,\u0026rdquo; Chris explains. \u0026ldquo;Amazon is the place to think big and innovate; we are constantly finding ways to make the lives of our customers better with innovative technologies and processes\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eChris is working with teams of data and research scientists, engineers, analysts and product managers. These multi-disciplinary teams are creating models, programs and products that optimizes processes across all fulﬁllment groups. \u0026ldquo;Working on a team which is diverse in skills as well as cultures constantly pushes you to innovate,\u0026rdquo; said Chris. \u0026ldquo;I am constantly encouraged to take calculated risks in order to pioneer big changes.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Chris enjoys the outdoors of the great Pacific Northwest. 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Programmatic advertising started going through rapid growth, and Dinara\u0026rsquo;s team saw a unique opportunity to innovate in the space by building differentiated products for online media publishers. Dinara now leads a team of Strategic Account Managers within Amazon Publisher Services, which offers monetization solutions to large and\u0026nbsp;premium online publishers across web, video, app and connected TV space.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dinara loves learning about different cultures, cuisines and languages. Outside of work, she hangs out with her husband Vlad and daughter Ariana.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/567/images/dinara-primary-badge-photo.jpg?1528823211","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/567/thumbnails/dinara_b_.jpg?1528823302","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/palo-alto","title":"Palo Alto, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/sales-advertising-account-management","title":"Sales, Advertising, \u0026 Account Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/multichannel-advertising","title":"Multichannel Advertising"}},{"id":"rachel-g","identifier":"rachel-g","name":"Rachel G.","first_name":"Rachel","job_title":"Recruiter","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachel began her Amazon journey in 2016 as a Graduate Area Manager, leading large teams in launching two new Amazon Robotics Fulfillment centers in Manchester and Warrington, UK.\u0026nbsp; After two years, her career took her abroad, to become part of the Alexa Data Services Recruiting team, where she has been involved in the launch of a new Amazon office, in Bucharest, Romania. What is her current role as a Recruiter? Attracting top talent to support the operations teams. \u0026ldquo;Our team mission is to build the most customer-centric teams, bringing together true Amazonians to lead the development of Alexa. My mission is to inspire others with a positive mindset and encourage them to deliver impactful results. I personally seek the feedback from my team and customers in order to develop my skills so that I can grow as an individual. I seek opportunities to learn about different parts of the business, to collaborate on new projects and to work with inspirational people.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eRachel enjoys coming to work every day. \u0026ldquo;My favorite part about Amazon is the diverse and fast-paced environment. No two days are the same at Amazon \u0026ndash; we say every day is Day 1. I have the opportunity to work with a huge variety of people from different backgrounds that all work together towards a common goal. A true Amazonian never says \u0026lsquo;it is not my job\u0026rsquo; and it is a pleasure to collaborate and learn from such teams and individuals. Amazon is also a great place for career growth and development. I have learned a lot about myself, gained skills and confidence that I could not imagine I would in just 2 years at Amazon. The culture at Amazon is unique because we never waste time on the \u0026lsquo;what-ifs\u0026rsquo;, we decide on a goal and we commit to meeting it, never sacrificing long-term success for short-term gains. I find this a very positive environment to work in; all teams collaborate and are genuinely interested in each part of the business. This makes it a very fluid environment where for example, an Area Manager can become a Recruiter. \u0026ldquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Rachel enjoys travelling and meeting new people. 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Learning to speak Romanian, and getting more familiar with Eastern European cultures.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/568/images/Rachel543.jpg?1528296815","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/568/thumbnails/Rachel_300.jpg?1528296815","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bucharest-romania","title":"Bucharest, Romania"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/human-resources","title":"Human Resources"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-data-services","title":"Alexa Data Services"}},{"id":"nitin-s","identifier":"nitin-s","name":"Nitin S.","first_name":"Nitin","job_title":"Senior Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eNitin began his Amazon career as a software development engineer fresh out of graduate school in May 2008. He started in Amazon\u0026rsquo;s e-commerce platform team, working on software and identity systems in the Seattle office.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNitin\u0026rsquo;s family then decided to move to Boston, and an opportunity with the Alexa team came knocking. \u0026ldquo;At the time, Alexa was secretive,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;But I did know that the team was working on speech technologies, and that the role was at the intersection of machine learning and big data.\u0026rdquo; This technical area was new to Nitin \u0026mdash; his background was in distributed systems \u0026mdash; but once he joined, he realized that he could apply his distributed systems knowledge to the machine learning domain.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Boston, Nitin found a strong technical community and a burgeoning Alexa AI team focused on releasing Echo and then iterating rapidly. \u0026ldquo;Our mission is to be the data platform that can securely, at scale, store relevant data that can be used to enrich customer experiences using Alexa,\u0026rdquo; he says. As the team grew, Nitin was a key player in launching the large scale data ingestion, management, and enrichment systems that are critical to Alexa continuously learning and improving.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSince 2008, Nitin has seen his career progress with Amazon. \u0026ldquo;From my first project to now, I\u0026rsquo;ve always known how what I am doing will get deployed to customers,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;As an engineer, it\u0026rsquo;s a place where you can learn to build systems at scale \u0026mdash; very few companies in the world have such distributed systems challenges.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Nitin enjoys spending time with his young daughter, playing trivia games with Alexa, practicing martial arts, and reading.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/570/images/Nitin_S_Image-01.jpg?1529336373","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/570/thumbnails/Nitin_S_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1529336374","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bostoncambridge-area-ma","title":"Boston/Cambridge Area, MA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai-engineering","title":"Alexa AI Engineering"}},{"id":"mike-a","identifier":"mike-a","name":"Mike A.","first_name":"Mike","job_title":"Senior Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter working for a startup in the Boston area, Mike saw an opportunity to join the Alexa AI data platform team. \u0026ldquo;The scale of Alexa and Amazon, what it takes to both code and operate systems like that, was inherently interesting,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m not a machine learning expert by any means, but I\u0026rsquo;m interested in learning more about that set of technologies.\u0026nbsp;This job lets me do that\u0026nbsp;by working with machine learning scientists and learning how they build stuff.\u0026rdquo; With an ability to learn and be curious, Mike jumped in.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;My team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to effectively use the incredible volume of data we have to help Alexa get smarter, more quickly,\u0026rdquo; he says. Mike works as the team\u0026rsquo;s architect, acting as a technical consultant to troubleshoot and bring the team\u0026rsquo;s engineering level up, and is hands-on in the design and coding of various projects.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Mike asks Alexa to play music for his kids,\u0026nbsp;and enjoys\u0026nbsp;improvisational\u0026nbsp;acting.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/571/images/Mike_A_Image-01.jpg?1529336540","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/571/thumbnails/Mike_A_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1529336541","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bostoncambridge-area-ma","title":"Boston/Cambridge Area, MA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai-engineering","title":"Alexa AI Engineering"}},{"id":"bridget-h","identifier":"bridget-h","name":"Bridget H.","first_name":"Bridget","job_title":"Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eBridget joined the Alexa AI team before the launch of the original Amazon Echo \u0026mdash; moving from Pittsburgh to Boston on a leap of faith \u0026mdash; and has been on the team ever since. Bridget\u0026rsquo;s focus has been enriching and sourcing data: getting better data faster for the Alexa machine learning scientists her team supports.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOver time, Bridget has seen her team\u0026rsquo;s customer base grow multiple orders of magnitude, driving her team to automate, innovate, and identify new abstractions needed to extend support to new businesses and domains. She enjoys seeing the impact the team\u0026rsquo;s work has on making Alexa more intelligent for customers.\u0026nbsp;Now, Bridget is working on \u003ca href=\"https://blog.aboutamazon.com/amazon-ai/alexas-newest-teacher-is-you\"\u003eCleo\u003c/a\u003e, an Alexa Skill for teaching Alexa your language or dialect.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer favorite Alexa feature? \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s the lights!\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;I have an apartment with tall ceilings and few wall switches. I used to have to stand on furniture to pull the strings. 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","first_name":"Annam","job_title":"Manager, Technology Audit\t","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnam made Seattle home after jumping from country to country, from one continent to another with her family. This allowed her to grow up learning new languages and the opportunity to immerse herself in colorful, amazing, and beautiful cultures and customs. Looking back, she feels blessed to have had such experiences. The diverse nature of the people she works with at Amazon is a continuation of her exposure to people around the world. Outside of work, still she loves to travel - doing what she does best - hopping from one country to another.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince joining in 2007, Amazon has had a positive impact in shaping her personal and professional growth. While she held several roles in accounting during her tenure, she is currently a member of the Internal Audit team. As a Manager in Internal Audit Technology, she gets unique exposure to many aspects of Amazon businesses and also partners with smart leaders who are relentless in improving processes and systems.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat she has grown to appreciate most at Amazon is its culture, where despite one\u0026rsquo;s tenure or position, their ideas and voices are welcomed to raise our customer-centric bar. 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We have a group within MAKO called Oddballs that plans fun events, such as weekly breakfast, poker nights, and a Halloween party.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nLeah is currently working on the Amazon Pop-up Stores, where she has been able to have an impact on customers from day one. She said, \u0026ldquo;My first project was a feature on the detail pages for Amazon devices, which lets customers know where the nearest Pop-up Store is when the device is out of stock online. We heard from customers in the Pop-up Stores that they came in after the Echo Dot went out of stock online right before the holidays, but they saw my feature and were able to buy it in the store in time to give their gift.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;Being a software engineer isn\u0026rsquo;t just about coding. When I was an aspiring writer, my dream was to take big, bold ideas and transform them into words that would have an impact on people. 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My son and I visit family back east several times per year, where I work remotely without issue.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;Amazon is also a wonderful place to learn \u0026ndash; in fact the sheer number of learning opportunities can be daunting. I have four great mentors throughout Amazon who continue to help me navigate the never-ending flow of new ideas and challenges. My current colleagues are the smartest, most driven, and most empathetic people I\u0026rsquo;ve ever worked with. I\u0026rsquo;m grateful Amazon saw potential in me even without the standard industry experience many bring to the table.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOne piece of advice for prospective Amazonians: \u0026ldquo;Amazon is what you make of it. Ownership is in the company\u0026rsquo;s DNA. No one will assign you specific deliverables, deadlines, tasks. 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After graduating university with a major in German language, Bartosz started his career as a primary school teacher. He quickly moved on to a new challenge in another country, focused on teenage socialization and resocialization. For the next 7 years, Bartosz helped 50 teenagers to finish school, overcome behavioural problems and improve their relationships with their parents. When he decided to return to Poland and move into the commercial sector, Alexa Data Services seemed a perfect place for him to take advantage of his education skills. \u0026nbsp;In 2016 he started as a German Data Analyst in the Gdansk office.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nIn his words: \u0026quot;My team is responsible for teaching Alexa when it should wake up and fulfil whatever customers expect from it. My duties revolve around achieving our weekly goals and ensuring the highest quality. My colleagues and I prepared quality \u0026amp; quantity reports, which simplified the work on the project and helped maintain the highest quality. I have improved training materials and changed the form of the training from a lecture into a discussion, based on previous work experiences.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked what he liked the most about his job he answered: \u0026quot;I learn things here I never realized would be relevant to me, but challenge me on a daily basis. Also, people here want to hear what you have to say and take in whatever it is you share. Working at Amazon is a great opportunity to learn about yourself. 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More importantly, this was the introduction to an amazing group of colleagues that make this work so exciting in a collaborative environment.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeatriz loves to make a difference for her customers and her team. Her motivation is fueled by her strong customer obsession. \u0026ldquo;The first line of customers for me is my team,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;Developing them on a daily basis to help discover and nourish new skills while delivering results each week is the most exhilarating part of the job. Being able to help each individual grow professionally is the reason why I took on the Team Manager role.\u0026rdquo; \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Amazon culture is very important to Beatriz: \u0026ldquo;I have quickly learned that Amazon is a company where you can actually voice out your ideas and concerns, where you can expect the support and interest of Leadership. We are quick to take action, passionate about improving processes and driven to enhance morale, so being able to speak up without fear has been my best asset. Now at the year mark at ADS, I am happy to say that the culture is one where you are proud to be a member of the team. \u0026ldquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe believes her superpower lays in people skills. From the feedback that Beatriz has received from others, this superpower has given her the ability to earn trust from her team, colleagues and Leadership, letting her be an advocate for others and drive positive changes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, Beatriz enjoys running outdoors, planning her next family vacation and spending time with her 3-year old. \u0026rdquo;It has been an uphill climb as I was juggling studying for my Masters while being a mom/wife and working full time. But one of the things I always reinforce with my team is the importance of work/life harmony.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/581/images/Beatrizramos546.jpg?1532954249","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/581/thumbnails/Beatrizramos300.jpg?1532954249","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bostoncambridge-area-ma","title":"Boston/Cambridge Area, MA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/operations-it-support-engineering","title":"Operations, IT, \u0026 Support Engineering"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-data-services","title":"Alexa Data Services"}},{"id":"elwira-p","identifier":"elwira-p","name":"Elwira P.","first_name":"Elwira","job_title":"Recruiting Coordinator ","description":"\u003cp\u003eElwira\u0026#39;s Customer Obsession goes back to 2012 and her first job in a multinational caf\u0026eacute; chain. However, only after interviewing at Amazon did she realize how this Leadership Principle influences everything Amazonians do. Before landing a job in Amazon, she worked in Alexander Mann where she supported recruitment efforts in EU. Then she received a phone call from Alexa Data Services recruiting team and a job to which she could not say no. One could say, she felt Alexa\u0026#39;s calling.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Our team works together to find the best people to develop Alexa\u0026rsquo;s language skills. I don\u0026rsquo;t know what the future brings but I\u0026rsquo;m sure that Alexa will be a big part of it.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWorking as a Recruitment Coordinator means being in constant motion, and Elwira likes to be challenged: \u0026quot;I feel fulfilled when I have a seemingly impossible task to work on and I still manage to make it happen. Lately, I had a case of a great candidate who informed us they had 48 hours to accept a counteroffer, so they needed to be interviewed for Amazon within that timeframe. An interview usually takes a couple of days to organize, but I managed to pull everything together in just one day. The candidate was successful and is now one of the Team Managers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Elwira\u0026#39;s spare time she enjoys nature and cultural walks. \u0026quot;When I\u0026rsquo;m not at work, I\u0026rsquo;m probably exploring some forests, new cool spots in the city or just hanging out at the beach. I\u0026rsquo;m also a big podcast addict \u0026ndash; can\u0026rsquo;t imagine a day without it. 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Every day his team envisions new ways to make Alexa more useful for customers and works hard to bring those features into reality, for more languages, for new regions, and with the latest technology available. Jos\u0026eacute;\u0026rsquo;s mission is to make Alexa more scalable, so Alexa can seamlessly incorporate new knowledge and features in a more autonomous way.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLast year, Alexa began interacting with customers from two more English-speaking countries, Canada and Australia, with localized language and accent. \u0026ldquo;It was the joint effort from various teams across different countries, working hard to put together and deploy the new logic and bring the best Alexa experience possible to those regions,\u0026rdquo; Jos\u0026eacute; explains. In long term, this achievement also laid the foundation for Alexa to interact with more customers across the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJos\u0026eacute; enjoys being surrounded by co-workers who are talented and share their point of view and vast knowledge on how to solve challenging problems. It makes him grow both personally and professionally.\u0026nbsp; As a scientist, he feels comfortable with working on cutting-edge methods and algorithms that have a real impact on many people around the world. In addition to this, he has access to quality resources and tools that allow him and his team to experiment with new features that bring Alexa\u0026rsquo;s language understanding to the next level.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJos\u0026eacute; loves to identify the root cause of problems and get to understand them so he can come up with the right solution. He believes deep diagnosis of the issues prevents people to make the same mistakes again. This skill has been critical during different phases of the Alexa launch in Canada and Australia in order to ensure that all the system components work as expected and the release becomes successful. Jos\u0026eacute;\u0026rsquo;s favorite Amazon Leadership Principles is Dive Deep.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJos\u0026eacute; loves to collaborate with other Amazonians and make the most of the interaction with them. He works hard to earn trust and create a symbiotic work environment where people are confident to share ideas and work together towards a common goal.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Jos\u0026eacute; likes to practice all kind of sports. He prefers outdoor activities, especially if they involve pedaling. 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Her favorite leadership principles are Earn Trust and Insist on the Highest Standards because they directly touch the customer at every level. \u0026ldquo;Earning Trust means that I\u0026rsquo;ve supported my co-workers and Insisting on the Highest Standards means I\u0026rsquo;m advocating on behalf of our customers.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003eOutside of work, Katherine is a full-time RV\u0026rsquo;er with her husband and 2 dogs.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I grew up in a small fishing town in Alaska and love the outdoor life.\u0026nbsp; RV living allows us to continue to enjoy that lifestyle.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;\u0026nbsp;She is also an avid swimmer and is learning how to surf.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m pretty sure I\u0026rsquo;m used as an example of \u0026ldquo;what not to do\u0026rdquo; 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In 2016, he was promoted to a senior machine-learning scientist, and less than a year later he was promoted to manager of the team he leads now.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Amazon presents a unique opportunity of developing the world-class far-field ASR technology for several languages that we have today in Alexa and collaborating and jointly learning with talented peers across the globe,\u0026rdquo; Sri says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSri earned his PhD in 2012 from the Johns Hopkins University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Language and Speech Processing, where he was a research assistant for his last three years. He had also worked as a research assistant at the Ecole polytechnique f\u0026eacute;d\u0026eacute;rale de Lausanne in 2008. Previously, he earned a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in engineering (signal processing) from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSri, who has a deep theoretical understanding of speech-recognition systems and many years of pragmatic, hands-on experience building them, has been issued nine U.S. patents and has published papers in top-tier speech conferences and journals. His research interests (\u003ca href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O7uO8OMAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;oi=ao\"\u003eGoogle Scholar page\u003c/a\u003e) include speech recognition, deep neural networks, and statistical machine learning.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Sri and his team aren\u0026rsquo;t working to improve Alexa\u0026rsquo;s speech-recognition capabilities, he enjoys spending time with family, watching movies, and cricket.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/586/images/Sri_Garimella.jpg?1533754184","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/586/thumbnails/Sri_Garimella.jpg?1533754184","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bangalore-india","title":"Bangalore, India"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"kanthashree","identifier":"kanthashree","name":"Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra","first_name":"Kanthashree","job_title":"Applied Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn early 2017, as she was completing a master\u0026rsquo;s degree from Carnegie Mellon\u0026rsquo;s Language Technologies Institute, Kanthashree learned that she had been admitted to the institute\u0026rsquo;s PhD program. But in the spring, she accepted her master\u0026rsquo;s diploma and crossed the Monongahela River to Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Pittsburgh office instead.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;The research that\u0026rsquo;s happening in industry is pretty fast paced right now, and now is the time when NLP [natural-language-processing] systems are making an impact on users,\u0026rdquo; Kanthashree says. \u0026ldquo;If I\u0026rsquo;d done a PhD, I could have missed it.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, Kanthashree is helping develop portable versions of NLP models that currently run in the cloud, to bring Alexa functionality to devices, like car entertainment systems, with unreliable Internet connectivity. At Interspeech, she and her colleagues will present a paper describing an innovative technique for compressing models so that they take up only about 6% as much space in memory.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;After coming here, I realized that there are so many more cool things happening, many things that are not yet out in public, and we get to work on those things firsthand,\u0026rdquo; Kanthashree says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor Kanthashree, this year\u0026rsquo;s Interspeech, which is being held in Hyderabad, will be a homecoming of sorts. She grew up 350 miles away in Bangalore, where her parents own a silk-yarn trading business.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s wonderful how Bangalore has changed since becoming the \u0026lsquo;Silicon Valley of India,\u0026rsquo;\u0026quot; Kanthashree says. \u0026ldquo;The population has been increasing, with people from all over the country settling there, cosmopolitan in some sense.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKanthashree stayed in Bangalore for college, earning her undergraduate degree in computer science and engineering from the Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, and after graduating, she worked as a software engineer, first at Cisco and then at Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Bangalore office.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a few years in industry, Kanthashree says, she concluded that \u0026ldquo;understanding text looked like something that\u0026rsquo;s challenging and something that would be very useful and very important.\u0026rdquo; So she applied to the CMU Language Technologies Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor her master\u0026rsquo;s thesis, she worked on a system that analyzed Web service providers\u0026rsquo; privacy policies to determine whether customers had the right to opt out of programs that collected their personal data. The system then presented the user with excerpts from the pertinent sections of the policy and a link to the page where he or she could opt out.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating, Kanthashree had a host of options, but she chose to hitch her wagon to Alexa. \u0026ldquo;Alexa is a very popular product,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;Contributing to something so big and making an impact in people\u0026rsquo;s lives was something that attracted me.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKanthashree is trained in Indian classical music and loves to sing. She\u0026rsquo;s also an artist: \u0026ldquo;I love experimenting with different mediums,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve tried my hand at watercolors, charcoal, dry pastels, oil pastels, and acrylic paints on different bases like canvas, fabric, glass, paper, ceramic, clay pots and tiles, and so on. I mostly do portraits, landscapes, murals, and Indian paintings, usually of mythological characters.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/587/images/Kanthashree_.jpg?1533754612","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/587/thumbnails/Kanthashree_.jpg?1533754613","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/pittsburgh-pennsylvania-0","title":"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"snehal-m","identifier":"snehal-m","name":"Snehal Meshram","first_name":"Snehal","job_title":"Principal Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, more than a year before Amazon would launch its first \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/all-new-amazon-echo-speaker-with-wifi-alexa-dark-charcoal/dp/B06XCM9LJ4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1532617433\u0026amp;sr=8-2\u0026amp;keywords=Echo\"\u003eEcho\u003c/a\u003e smart speaker with Alexa, Snehal Meshram applied for a job at Amazon.\u0026nbsp; In interviewing for her role as a program manager II (she became the first Alexa employee in Sunnyvale, Calif.), Snehal didn\u0026rsquo;t learn exactly what she would be working on, only that her work related to Amazon\u0026rsquo;s attempt to get into speech.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat a journey it\u0026rsquo;s been for Snehal, who celebrates her five-year anniversary at Amazon in September, shortly after the Interspeech Conference.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eInitially, Snehal and a small team collected large amounts of data that helped bootstrap the early automatic-speech-recognition models that supported the launch of Echo devices in late 2014.\u0026nbsp; Since then, she and her team have continued large-scale data-collection efforts that support the launch of new Echo devices, features, and languages (Alexa is currently available in five variants of English, German, Japanese, and French) and that allow Alexa scientists to continue doing innovative, groundbreaking work.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, Snehal was promoted to a managerial role, with responsibility for managing the data-collection initiative for Alexa Machine Learning and building a larger team located entirely in Sunnyvale.\u0026nbsp; Then, earlier this year, she decided she was ready for a new challenge, one that would see her return to India and focus on a new area of conversational AI \u0026mdash; natural language understanding (NLU).\u0026nbsp; As a principal program manager, Snehal concentrates on Alexa NLU requirements in the Asia-Pacific region.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile her roles and responsibilities have changed throughout her five-year journey, one thing has remained constant. \u0026ldquo;Central to every team I\u0026rsquo;ve worked on, or with, has been a singular focus on delighting the customer,\u0026rdquo; Snehal says. \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s always this pervasive enthusiasm and energy for creating world-class products, and for lots of invention along the way.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe\u0026rsquo;s especially excited about her new role. \u0026ldquo;I feel like I\u0026rsquo;ve chosen the right next challenge on which to focus,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;India is such an interesting ecosystem to be in.\u0026nbsp; There are so many different segments of users.\u0026nbsp; It\u0026rsquo;s a truly multilingual environment, with the potential for more than 1 billion users.\u0026nbsp; The challenge before us is, How do we adapt Alexa so she becomes an integral part of every Indian family\u0026rsquo;s home?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSnehal, who speaks three languages (English, Hindi, and Marathi), grew up in central India (Nagpur).\u0026nbsp; She earned her bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in English and psychology from Nagpur University and then obtained a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in linguistics from San Jose State University.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she\u0026rsquo;s not focused on making Alexa smarter, Snehal enjoys long hikes (she\u0026rsquo;s excited about the opportunity to hike in the Himalayas) and participating in volunteer efforts related to preserving open spaces and zero-waste living.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/588/images/Snehal_Pic.jpg?1533754812","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/588/thumbnails/Snehal_Pic.jpg?1533754812","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bangalore-india","title":"Bangalore, India"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"lydia-s","identifier":"lydia-s","name":"Lydia","first_name":"Lydia","job_title":"Cooperative Education Student, Business and Logistics Management","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter completing high-school, Lydia worked as a temporary associate during Christmas time to be able to finance a Work and Travel stay in Canada. After this time, she directly applied for the dual study programme in Business and Logistics Management, as she could picture herself becoming an Area Manager at Amazon. Since August 2015, she has been studying at the University of Applied Science in Bad Hersfeld and working at both Amazon sites in Bad Hersfeld.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLydia:\u003c/strong\u003e \u0026bdquo;What I really like about Amazon is that even as students we can really make a difference with our projects. We can work independently and are given a lot of responsibility and if necessary, we always get support from our friendly colleagues. At Amazon, I\u0026rsquo;m learning a lot for my future professional and private life.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/589/images/ly_540.jpg?1533812655","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/589/thumbnails/ly_300.jpg?1533812655","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bad-hersfeld-germany","title":"Bad Hersfeld, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-warehouse-associate","title":"Warehouse and Shopper"},"team":null},{"id":"rahul-m","identifier":"rahul-m","name":"Rahul M.","first_name":"Rahul","job_title":"Principal Business Development","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif;\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;\r\nmso-themecolor:text1\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eRahul focuses on Alexa business development for US-based car manufacturers and tier-one suppliers.\u0026nbsp; He has extensive experience integrating technology into vehicles, and joined Amazon for the opportunity to take the driving experience one step further by bringing Alexa into cars.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;The most interesting thing about working at Amazon is how different it is from other companies,\u0026rdquo; said Rahul. \u0026ldquo;This includes Amazon\u0026rsquo;s \u0026lsquo;Day One\u0026rsquo; culture, which incorporates the approach of \u0026lsquo;working backwards\u0026rsquo; from the customer and coming up with peculiar ideas through storytelling.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAutomakers like Ford have been incredibly excited to integrate Alexa into their vehicles, and Rahul is currently working with a number of companies to bring the power of voice into their cars. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Rahul enjoys spending time with his two children, traveling, volleyball, and experimenting with modern cooking techniques.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/590/images/Rahul_M_Image-01.jpg?1533917915","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/590/thumbnails/Rahul_M_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1533917915","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/virtual-locations","title":"Virtual Locations, Virtual Location"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/business-merchant-development","title":"Business \u0026 Merchant Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-automotive","title":"Alexa Auto"}},{"id":"koji-k","identifier":"koji-k","name":"Koji K.","first_name":"Koji","job_title":"Senior Solutions Architect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Integrating new technology and capabilities into vehicles should be as natural as possible for the customer \u0026ndash; intuitive, like speaking with a friend,\u0026rdquo; said Koji. \u0026ldquo;Prior to joining Amazon, I worked at a major automotive company where I spent a decade focusing on connected vehicle system development and big data/IoT platform enablement.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs Koji led initiatives to bring new connected services to cars, he felt customers faced hurdles adopting those complex technologies. Koji found an answer to this challenge with the power of Alexa.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Having worked in both software engineering and the automotive industry, Alexa Auto is the most fascinating place to be today,\u0026rdquo; said Koji. \u0026ldquo;Now, by using Alexa, I have the ability to seamlessly integrate cloud-based voice services that both enhance and simplify the driving experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, our vision is for Alexa to be everywhere our customers are. That means finding new ways bring Alexa to devices at home, in the office, on phones and in vehicles. \u0026ldquo;This integration means customers can interact with Alexa and have seamless access to their online digital services while on the go,\u0026rdquo; said Koji.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Solutions Architect for Alexa Auto, Koji engages with car companies and facilitates the integration of Alexa into their products and services. \u0026ldquo;It is crucial I fully understand how car companies envision the future of their driving experience so that I can guide them toward the right architectural design,\u0026rdquo; said Koji. \u0026ldquo;With Alexa, we can deliver on and evolve those experiences through in-vehicle systems and more.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKoji enjoys working at Amazon and the vitality of its \u0026lsquo;Day One\u0026rsquo; culture. \u0026ldquo;I get to work with Amazonians from around the globe and have been inspired by the enormous amount of energy my colleagues invest into what they do,\u0026rdquo; said Koji. \u0026ldquo;We challenge ourselves to raise the bar every day.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Koji loves to surf and enjoys exploring a variety of California wines and traveling around the world with his son and wife.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/591/images/Koji_K_Image-01.jpg?1533918421","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/591/thumbnails/Koji_K_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1533918421","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/tokyo-area-japan","title":"Tokyo, Japan"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/solutions-architect","title":"Solutions Architect"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-automotive","title":"Alexa Auto"}},{"id":"sarah-c","identifier":"sarah-c","name":"Sarah C.","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"Senior Manager Business Operations","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarah is one of the earliest members of the Alexa team. \u0026ldquo;I remember when Alexa was just an idea. There were less than 15 of us working on a code-named project that became the Alexa we know today!\u0026rdquo; said Sarah.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSarah\u0026rsquo;s 10+ year career at Amazon started in a subsidiary business, CreateSpace, where she focused on merging two independent publishing companies that Amazon had acquired into a new business. From there she worked at Amazon Lab126, a team that designs and tests various hardware products, and later joined the Alexa team where she built several functions, including one of the teams that helped launch the first Echo, and the partner management function for Alexa Voice Service, which enables third-party device makers to build Alexa into their products.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I never expected to be at a company this long!\u0026rdquo; said Sarah. \u0026ldquo;I keep getting amazing opportunities to work on new things and build functions from the ground up. I\u0026rsquo;ve been lucky that leaders have bet on me and supported me in taking on things I have never done before.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Sarah spends time with her young daughter and husband who is also a long-time Amazonian. She is a fitness and health buff \u0026ndash; spending as much time as she can being active.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/592/images/Sarah_C_Image-01.jpg?1534134562","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/592/thumbnails/Sarah_C_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1534134562","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/kindle-content","title":"Kindle Content "},"location":null,"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":null},{"id":"dilek","identifier":"dilek","name":"Dilek Hakkani- Tur","first_name":"Dilek","job_title":"Sr. Principal Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eDilek Hakkani-Tur, whose academic and professional research has focused on making it easier for humans to engage with machines, recently joined the Alexa AI organization as a senior principal scientist, with a focus of making it more natural for customers to engage with Alexa. She will be one of many Amazon researchers attending Interspeech 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDilek, most recently a research scientist within Google\u0026rsquo;s Research Dialogue Group, is leading an initiative focused on improving Alexa\u0026rsquo;s ability to complete complex tasks. She also is directing and auditing the technical approach to \u003ca href=\"https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize\"\u003eAlexa Prize\u003c/a\u003e, the company\u0026rsquo;s university challenge to advance conversational AI.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor nearly 18 years, Hakkani-Tur has pursued research interests in natural language and speech processing, spoken dialogue systems, and machine learning for language processing within industry and academic research organizations. Prior to joining Google, Hakkani-Tur was a researcher at Microsoft Research (2010-2016), The University of California Berkeley International Computer Science Institute (ICSI, 2006-2010) and AT\u0026amp;T Labs-Research (2001-2005).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I am incredibly excited to help Alexa be even more engaging and useful for customers,\u0026rdquo; Dilek says. \u0026ldquo;I love engaging with Alexa and other conversational agents, but today my interactions are typically short and transactional. I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to applying my dialogue systems research to helping Alexa engage in more complex, multi-turn conversations so customers can decide, for example, what to have for dinner tonight, or what movie to see this weekend.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDilek obtained her bachelor of science degree from Middle East Technical University in 1994, and her master\u0026rsquo;s and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1996 and 2000, respectively.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDilek has been granted 65 patents and co-authored more than 200 papers in natural language and speech processing. She is the recipient of three best paper awards for her work on active learning for dialogue systems, from IEEE Signal Processing Society, ISCA and EURASIP. She was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2005-2008), a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (2009-2014), area editor for speech and language processing for Elsevier\u0026#39;s Digital Signal Processing Journal and IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2011-2013).\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nShe is a fellow of IEEE and ISCA.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMost recently, she was a \u003ca href=\"http://naacl2018.org/keynote.html\"\u003ekeynote speaker\u003c/a\u003e at the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Conference in New Orleans.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond work, Dilek enjoys reading and watching thrillers, and exploring sandy beaches, redwood groves and wineries of California with her family.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/593/images/Dilek.jpg?1534265702","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/593/thumbnails/Dilek.jpg?1534265702","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/sunnyvale-california","title":"Sunnyvale, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"shiv","identifier":"shiv","name":"Shiv Vitaladevuni","first_name":"Shiv","job_title":"Sr Manager, Machine Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, when he arrived at Amazon, Shiv had been doing computer vision research for 10 years. So naturally, he went right to work on a problem in speech recognition.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt wasn\u0026rsquo;t just any problem in speech recognition, however. It was the problem of \u0026ldquo;wake word detection,\u0026rdquo; which Amazon researchers needed to solve to enable Alexa to respond to her name.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Wake word is a very unorthodox problem,\u0026rdquo; Shiv says. \u0026ldquo;The more traditional speech efforts in keyword spotting are not usually applied for continuous 24/7 detection. Interestingly enough, there are more examples of such problems in computer vision, such as detecting objects in continuous videos.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter doing his PhD in computer vision at the University of Maryland, building software to stitch together electron microscope scans of the fly brain at the Howard Hughes Institute, and training models to categorize YouTube videos at BBN in Cambridge, MA, Shiv had developed other pertinent skills as well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Even in my PhD, one of the things that I was interested in was taking an ill-defined business problem and formulating it as a machine-learning-systems-problem, where you could design the metrics that would best capture user experience, what the success criteria would be, and how you formulate test sets,\u0026rdquo; Shiv says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDeveloping evaluation methods turned out to be central to solving the problem of wake word detection, Shiv explains. One of the wake word team\u0026rsquo;s chief goals is minimizing the number of \u0026ldquo;false accepts\u0026rdquo;, or instances in which a word other than \u0026ldquo;Alexa\u0026rdquo; causes the system to wake up.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Let\u0026rsquo;s say you have a machine-learning model in production, and your false-accept dataset is based on the false accepts for that model,\u0026rdquo; Shiv says. \u0026ldquo;Then you build a new model that supposedly accepts fewer of those false accepts. Conceivably, the new model has a different set of false accepts \u0026mdash; potentially even more of them. But your current test set doesn\u0026rsquo;t include those false accepts, so you can\u0026rsquo;t test for them. You\u0026rsquo;re always biased toward what the current models have seen so far. It\u0026rsquo;s called selection bias, and it is a fundamental science problem in wake word.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEcho products\u0026rsquo; speedy adoption demonstrates how well the wake word team has addressed that problem. But they\u0026rsquo;re not resting on their laurels. They remain busy building models to help Alexa expand into new languages and devices, and they\u0026rsquo;re always trying to further reduce false accepts and false rejects in noisy conditions.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShiv grew up in Lucknow, near New Delhi, and he was the black sheep in the family: His father is an eye surgeon, his mother an internist, and his sister a gynecologist. He has cousins and cousins-in-law who are also doctors. But he chose to instead take the entrance examination for India\u0026rsquo;s prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a computer science student at IIT-Madras, he became fascinated by computer vision, and for graduate school, he applied to the University of Maryland in order to work with the eminent computer vision researcher Larry Davis. Shiv\u0026rsquo;s dissertation was on pose estimation, or inferring the 3-D configuration of human bodies from 2-D camera information.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThen came three years at the Howard Hughes Institute, and another three years at BBN, before his move into speech recognition. He joined Amazon in June 2013, and the Echo launched a year and a half later.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShiv and his wife have two daughters, aged eight and three. Their older daughter loves to hike, and the family regularly spends summer weekends on trails in western Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But the three-year-old \u0026ldquo;is beginning to get heavy in the backpack,\u0026rdquo; Shiv says. \u0026ldquo;Next year, she may have to start hiking on her own.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/594/images/shiv_pic.jpg?1534370162","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/594/thumbnails/shiv_pic.jpg?1534370163","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bostoncambridge-area-ma","title":"Boston/Cambridge Area, MA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"weiran-w","identifier":"weiran-w","name":"Weiran Wang","first_name":"Weiran","job_title":"Machine Learning Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, in his first year as a postdoc at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Weiran applied for a grant from the chipmaker Nvidia, and later that year, he received a donation of two Tesla K40 GPUs, on which he ran his machine learning experiments for the next three years.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow, as an applied scientist in the Alexa Speech group, \u0026ldquo;I have 24 K80 GPUs [each with almost twice the processing power of a K40] all to myself, so the computational power is phenomenal, and I\u0026rsquo;m able to train very large models,\u0026rdquo; Weiran says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAccess to greater resources was a major reason Weiran moved from academia to industry. \u0026ldquo;After I had been working in the speech field for some time,\u0026rdquo; he says, \u0026ldquo;I realized that if you want to do research that matters, industry has the large amount of data and the computational facilities that in academia we don\u0026rsquo;t really have access to. And the models we train are eventually going into a product that will be used by many people, so the impact of the research is really clear.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWeiran also had particular reasons for coming to Alexa AI\u0026rsquo;s offices in Cambridge, MA. His advisor at the Toyota Technical Institute, Karen Livescu, got a PhD from MIT as a member of the Spoken Language Systems group; Weiran\u0026rsquo;s team at Amazon is led by Chao Wang, who was a research scientist in the same group at the same time. In Cambridge, Weiran and Chao are just a few blocks away from the group\u0026rsquo;s offices, and Jim Glass, who leads the group, \u003ca href=\"https://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2018/Mohtarami_NAACL_2018.pdf\"\u003eoccasionally\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2018/Baly_NAACL18_Arabic_Stance.pdf\"\u003ecollaborates\u003c/a\u003e with Amazon researchers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, Weiran is exploring both the possibility that Alexa could learn to respond to sounds other than the human voice and potential applications of that ability.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWeiran grew up in the Hubei province in central China, a transportation hub on the Yangtze River that he says is sometimes called the \u0026ldquo;Chicago of China.\u0026rdquo; There, his father ran what Weiran describes as the Chinese equivalent of the province\u0026rsquo;s Better Business Bureau. Weiran earned his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, and a master\u0026rsquo;s from the Chengdu Institute of Computer Applications at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he was a master\u0026rsquo;s student, Weiran happened across a notice on the school\u0026rsquo;s electronic bulletin board from a computer science professor at the University of California, Merced, who was actively recruiting Chinese PhD students. Weiran hadn\u0026rsquo;t heard of the Merced campus, which was only three years old at the time, but, he says, \u0026ldquo;Cal was well known, so it was a calculated risk.\u0026rdquo; He graduated from UC Merced in 2013, then spent four years in the Chicago of the United States before joining Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside work, Weiran spends most of his time running after his two small children, who are five and two: \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t have too much spare time now,\u0026rdquo; he says. To decompress, he and his wife, whom he met as a master\u0026rsquo;s student, watch \u0026ldquo;American TV dramas,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;I think we\u0026rsquo;ve seen 11 seasons of \u003cem\u003eGrey\u0026rsquo;s Anatomy\u003c/em\u003e.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/595/images/Weiran.jpg?1534432246","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/595/thumbnails/Weiran.jpg?1534432247","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bostoncambridge-area-ma","title":"Boston/Cambridge Area, MA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"ching-y","identifier":"ching-y","name":"Ching-Yun C.","first_name":"Ching-Yun","job_title":"Speech Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eChing-Yun is a speech scientist in the Alexa AI Team. Her mission is to deliver scientific innovations and solutions that improve Alexa Natural Language Understanding models in different aspects, including accuracy, efficiency and expansion. \u0026ldquo;So far I have been mostly focusing on the efficiency and expansion by leading the design and implementation of the US-English Natural Language Understanding model building pipeline,\u0026rdquo; she says. With the new infrastructure, the modelers can release models faster, which means Alexa\u0026rsquo;s skills are expanding faster and therefore improving Alexa users\u0026rsquo; experiences.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile driving the automation of the US-English Alexa Natural Language Understanding model building, in order to collect customer stories Ching-Yun developed extensive networks with colleagues across Amazon. She was able to present internal customers\u0026rsquo; views to the rest of her team so that they could use the feedback for improvement. \u0026ldquo;I dived deep into issues and solved complex problems in both engineering and science. I also taught others how to use newly introduced solutions,\u0026rdquo; she explains. In the end, the deliverable had a huge impact, accelerating the pipeline from design to feature expansion and finally to release.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eChing-Yun always makes sure she is available to help people at work. In addition, she feels excited about working in cross-team structures and on large-scale projects. \u0026ldquo;By working cross-team and cross-location, it allows my skillsets to grow much quicker and more extensively,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Ching-Yun started out at Amazon, she was impressed to find that the company\u0026rsquo;s Leadership Principles are embedded in everyone\u0026rsquo;s day-to-day work, guiding and shaping business decisions. Together with her co-workers, they ensure all new activities begin by asking the question \u0026ldquo;how can we improve customer experiences?\u0026rdquo; From this, they work backwards to evaluate the best approach to turn the idea into reality.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, you will find Ching-Yun travelling to explore the world. \u0026ldquo;I enjoy the sunshine and riding my bike,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/596/images/Ching-Yun_Chang-1-546.jpg?1534773345","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/596/thumbnails/Ching-Yun_Chang-1-300.jpg?1534773345","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/cambridge-uk","title":"Cambridge, England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/research-science","title":"Research Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"vicky-s","identifier":"vicky-s","name":"Vicky S.","first_name":"Vicky","job_title":"Scientific Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eVicky is a Scientific Program Manager on the Amazon Machine Learning team. Her team, based in the Amazon Cambridge Development Centre, develops innovative machine learning methods for the modelling and analysis of complex data. Vicky\u0026rsquo;s role is dual as she also serves as a Technical Program Manager and supports the exploration and execution of her teams\u0026rsquo; products.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I enjoy that intersect between science and deployment,\u0026rdquo; she explains. \u0026ldquo;We don\u0026#39;t do science for the sake of science, we do it to bring a step change in our customer experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince she joined the company, Vicky has worked on numerous programmes. She is especially proud to have helped launch the Amazon Academic Engagement programme, which encompasses a variety of mechanisms and opportunities for Amazon and academics to engage and together explore new innovations. Working on this project gave her the opportunity to work with people from various background and areas of expertise, and with teams located in various geographies. \u0026ldquo;I love the diversity I find at Amazon, the variety of people I get to interact and work with, how everyone is focused on our customers. Together we thrive to make customer experience always better,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eVicky likes Amazon\u0026rsquo;s dynamic, agile and fluid pace. She remembers how she built a process for the applied scientists on her team to collaborate and get published. She did a deep dive and explored which mechanisms had been tried, what worked, what did not and why and what would work best. \u0026ldquo;In only two months, I had incubators for a variety of processes that have since been piloted across Amazon!\u0026rdquo; she exclaims.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eVicky would say that \u0026ldquo;enthusiastic\u0026rdquo; is what describes her best. \u0026ldquo;Enthusiasm generates motivation. 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She has worked in fulfillment centers and logistics for Amazon Operations for the past 6 years. Very recently, she joined the Alexa and Devices recruiting team as a Recruitment Coordinator. Each step\u0026rsquo;s experience has set her up for her next career step. \u0026ldquo;There are so many open positions inside Amazon you can apply to if you want to take your career to a different direction,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the fulfillment center, Elli used to deal with all manner of emergencies from conveyor breakdowns and headcount deficiencies to a major roof leak in the building. Because of her bias for action, she quickly solved all issues.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her new role in Alexa and Device recruitment, she coordinates interviews and recruitment events across the world. The mission of her team is to give the best possible candidate experience. \u0026ldquo;There are a lot of factors to consider when scheduling an interview and my team takes care of it all. I look after everything from finding out our candidates\u0026rsquo; availability and booking their travel to checking if we have a free room available for the interviews to take place,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eElli feels when working at Amazon, she can really focus on completing her job and deliver customers the best experience. \u0026ldquo;You never need to worry about the way you dress or look,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Elli has a passion for her pets. \u0026ldquo;I can\u0026rsquo;t help but rescue the poor strays of the world \u0026mdash; there is always room for one more. I currently have four cats, a rabbit, two guinea pigs, a rat, a tarantula and a snake. 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They manage the schedule and logistics of interviews and hiring events. \u0026ldquo;My team\u0026rsquo;s biggest mission is to deliver the best candidate\u0026rsquo;s experience possible,\u0026rdquo; Shimeng explains.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShimeng has had many \u0026ldquo;proudest moments\u0026rdquo; at Amazon: the day she got the job offer from an Amazon recruiter, the time when her first candidate came for an interview and they finally met face-to-face, and every email from candidates telling her that their interview experience had made them more motivated to join Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe enjoys the dynamic environment at Amazon. \u0026ldquo;I can never get bored and that is what keeps me motivated,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;No two days are the same. When I wake up, I never know what\u0026rsquo;s going to happen at work today.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShimeng has a strong focus on her customers, who are candidates and business stakeholders. A usual day of her work life is to deliver interview schedule requests and create the best interview day possible for candidates. She remembers once she was given a task of managing a hiring event in Dublin with 20+ invited candidates. In two weeks, she had to figure out detailed logistics for the events, including rooms, schedules, candidates\u0026rsquo; travel, catering, and more. The deadline was tight, but she never compromised candidates\u0026rsquo; experience. 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And you have the freedom and trust to actually work on solutions to solve all kinds of problems,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNicole\u0026rsquo;s team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to hire talented people for Amazon Alexa in Europe. \u0026ldquo;We need people to represent our customers, who understand what the customers need and are open to experimenting with what we might not know yet,\u0026rdquo; she explains. To fulfill this task, she is looking for people from various backgrounds and experiences and aspires to support diversity of thought in the business with her work.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt work, Nicole feels really proud when she can take on challenging projects and solve complex situations. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s really not about who shouts the loudest, but what does the data say, what is best for the customers and how does an idea solve something,\u0026rdquo; she explains. She feels empowered and drives projects effectively with the full backing and trust of her managers. \u0026ldquo;At Amazon, there is a focus on self-development supported by your manager and mentoring opportunities, so that you can also develop into a direction where you may not necessarily have the background or experience,\u0026rdquo; Nicole mentions.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Nicole\u0026rsquo;s superpowers is to remain calm in all circumstances. Nicole can analyze facts and come up with a structured approach to solutions. \u0026ldquo;I believe in constructive feedback and open communication as a best practice,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Nicole loves being in nature, hiking or riding her bike. \u0026ldquo;I feel there is so much to explore as we all live in this amazing world. 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It\u0026#39;s awesome in both senses of the word!\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen asked about his favorite part of working at Amazon, his answer is immediate. \u0026quot;People. Hard stop. I work with incredibly smart, talented, ambitious people. They are leaders in their respective fields. If I can say more, I\u0026#39;d say learning. I\u0026#39;ve been in the game a while, and being at Amazon you learn more in a year than most people do in five. That \u0026#39;Learn and Be Curious\u0026#39; culture is for real!\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDescribing his growing team, he says, \u0026quot;We\u0026#39;re tackling really interesting new challenges around scope and scale. Solving these complex problems demands innovative thinking. The business is evolving so fast that the old ways stop working.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Matt enjoys time with family, reading, and playing guitar. 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He was the VP of engineering at Graphiq, a start-up focused on developing knowledge graph technology. The technology built by Ivan\u0026rsquo;s team was complementary to Alexa\u0026rsquo;s roadmap, so Graphiq decided to join forces with Amazon. Since then, Ivan has continued with his mission by helping Alexa become the world\u0026rsquo;s best knowledge source for obtaining information on all topics, at all times, in all places.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to building features for Alexa, Ivan is dedicated to building and nurturing his large team of software developers and knowledge engineers. Ivan has always believed that innovation results from hiring outstanding individuals and creating an environment where experimentation and risk-taking are encouraged. Graphiq has a culture that celebrates the \u0026ldquo;Ownership\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Deliver Results\u0026rdquo; leadership principles. In addition to the typical Amazon process of writing, the Graphiq team loves to build prototypes and share demos. Friday demos are a great opportunity for everyone to learn about new developments and for employees to share their work. My favorite thing about Amazon is how it operates as a collection of thousands of start-ups partnering together. 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This position allows her to focus on her \u0026ldquo;bias for action\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;deliver results\u0026rdquo; by finding scalable solutions that work across locales with a team of outstanding individuals.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHeike joined Amazon through an acquisition of Graphiq, a local Santa Barbara start-up. Prior to Graphiq, Heike was an Engagement Manager at an international consulting company. Heike hails from Germany, where she completed a PhD in Education from the Free University in Berlin and a Master\u0026rsquo;s Degree in Physics from the Technical University Munich. Heike finds the last two years to be some of the most rewarding in her career. \u0026ldquo;I enjoy working in a fast pace environment where I can have global impact. On the one side, Amazon runs like a well-oiled machine that knows how to launch products and scale business. On the other side, it moves quickly like a start-up and focuses on ongoing invention.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Heike has fully adapted to a Southern California lifestyle.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/618/images/Heike_Image-01.jpg?1538592358","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/618/thumbnails/Heike_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1538592358","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":null,"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-information","title":"Alexa Information"}},{"id":"cody-o","identifier":"cody-o","name":"Cody O.","first_name":"Cody","job_title":"Manager of Knowledge Engineering","description":"\u003cp\u003eCody graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with degrees in Economics, Entrepreneurship and Sports Management. After school, the Southern California native joined a local start-up, Graphiq, as a product manager, with a mission of instantly delivering knowledge to the world. After six years of launching knowledge products across dozens of industries, the Graphiq team joined Amazon to help make Alexa the most intelligent voice service. This partnership set the foundation for Amazon\u0026rsquo;s home in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eToday, Cody leads the Global Knowledge Engineering team out of the Santa Barbara office. His team is focused on making Alexa smarter and more engaging across all topics. \u0026ldquo;What amazes me about our team and technology is the speed at which we are improving Alexa\u0026rsquo;s question and answering capabilities,\u0026rdquo; says Cody. \u0026ldquo;We launch new features daily and instantly see customers discover, engage and love these new abilities.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon has a technical culture of letting builders build. Cody\u0026#39;s goal is to create an identity and culture for his team that sets the bar high and requires innovative risk-taking and collaboration to achieve the group\u0026rsquo;s ambitious goals. As a leader, he has continually seen the importance of the \u0026quot;Deliver Results\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Are Right, A Lot\u0026quot; leadership principles. \u0026ldquo;The individuals and teams that I have seen have the most success are the ones who have great instincts and can make the right decision time after time. Constantly demonstrating strong judgment and delivering on key projects, will open up an endless number of opportunities for your career.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCody is a sports fanatic, loves live music and anything outdoors, so being in Santa Barbara allows him to pursue all of his passions.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/619/images/Cody_Image-01.jpg?1538592526","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/619/thumbnails/Cody_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1538592526","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":null,"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-information","title":"Alexa Information"}},{"id":"cian-o","identifier":"cian-o","name":"Cian O.","first_name":"Cian","job_title":"Manager, Software Development","description":"\u003cp\u003eCian joined Amazon in 2017 as a Software Development Manager for Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS). He runs a team of engineers who invent systems that raise the bar of the customer experience by enabling them to automatically reorder items in more convenient ways. \u0026ldquo;With our easy to use APIs businesses large and small can take advantage of Amazon\u0026#39;s authentication and payment systems, customer service, and fulfilment network to ensure their customers never have that \u0026lsquo;ran out of it\u0026rsquo; moment -- like a Whirlpool washing machine that orders laundry detergent before your last load,\u0026rdquo; Cian explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCian and his team in Dublin were part of a global team involved with the recent launch of an Alexa powered microwave that has a \u0026ldquo;Never run out of popcorn\u0026rdquo; feature. Customers can sign up for DRS when purchasing the microwave and no additional setup at home is required. Cian\u0026rsquo;s team developed this experience on the retail website and the frictionless setup at home. That is definitively one of his proudest moments at Amazon.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I get to work with extremely talented, knowledgeable and motivated people while working on exciting new smart home devices,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCian deems that every engineer is empowered to have input on other products or services at Amazon. This strong ownership guarantees that the team keep the quality bar exceptionally high. Digging into Amazon\u0026rsquo;s uniqueness, Cian is prompt to pick up \u0026lsquo;Customer Obsession\u0026rsquo; as his favourite Leadership Principle. \u0026ldquo;When you work on smart home devices, you need to put the customer at the centre of every conversation,\u0026rdquo; he explains. \u0026ldquo;Any device or experience we deliver needs to be of the highest standard or it will lead to customer frustration. I\u0026rsquo;ve pushed back and delayed launches to make sure what we deliver is right for our customers.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Cian loves making pizza. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m constantly trying to perfect that art of making perfect Neapolitan pizza. I amazed by how something so simple, can be so challenging.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/620/images/CianO-546.jpg?1539098708","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/620/thumbnails/Cian-300.jpg?1539098708","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/dublin-ireland","title":"Dublin, Ireland"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/smarthome","title":"Alexa Smart Home"}},{"id":"lawrence-b","identifier":"lawrence-b","name":"Lawrence B. 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Supporting the Amazon Fresh launch in these countries is one of his proudest moments.\u0026nbsp;He joined Alexa in March 2018 and he is nearing five years in Amazon!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLawrence\u0026rsquo;s team mission is to be the world\u0026rsquo;s best voice-forward knowledge source, a user\u0026rsquo;s preferred solution for obtaining information on all topics, at all times, in all places. In his current role as a Senior Product Manager (Technical), Lawrence spends most of his time talking to his customer teams (Knowledge Experience Teams, Partner Teams and Science teams), assessing new use cases and potential customer benefit, and working with the three teams in his group to manage their delivery roadmap. Writing Amazon \u0026lsquo;working backwards\u0026rsquo; press releases for new products for customers is a huge part of his duties, as well as working with his technical leads to find the best solutions for customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLawrence likes how Amazon empowers him to own his career. The diversity of high profile projects leads to plenty of opportunities for those who are up for embracing the challenge. He likes how he can tailor his position and gain\u0026nbsp;a broad range of experiences in Amazon. Thanks to his strong ability to \u0026lsquo;Dive deep\u0026rsquo;, Lawrence developed tools to determine how important different products are to customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Lawrence is a (semi) competitive fencer. He used to be in the Great Britain team (under 17). That was a while back but he still does county, regional and national level competitions. \u0026ldquo;I occasionally get a medal,\u0026rdquo; he adds. \u0026ldquo;These days I mostly fence to keep fit and once a year I help to organise a fencers Alumni event at my University.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/621/images/LawrenceB-546.jpg?1539160660","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/621/thumbnails/Lawrence-300.jpg?1539160660","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/cambridge-uk","title":"Cambridge, England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-information","title":"Alexa Information"}},{"id":"david-h","identifier":"david-h","name":"David H. 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That includes making sure that everyone on the team has opportunities to make the most of their experience as well as learning new skills. \u0026ldquo;I also need to ensure we have a strong, shared sense of purpose, the right tools for the job, and lightweight processes that enable us to run the organisation without getting in the way of delivering value for customers,\u0026rdquo; David adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHis proudest moment at Amazon is being part of the team that launched Alexa in the UK and in Germany in 2016. Until then, Alexa was only available in the US. The German launch was the first time David\u0026rsquo;s team had made their question answering system work in a language other than English. \u0026ldquo;It was a big challenge, but also an exciting time and a project where the team learned a lot,\u0026rdquo; he recalls\u003cem\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen setting goals, the team take the time to think about why the goal matters to customers. They then let the engineers and scientists on the team determine what they will build and how they will deliver. \u0026ldquo;We tend to delegate decision making away from senior leaders,\u0026rdquo; David explains. \u0026ldquo;The result is a very high level of individual autonomy and responsibility, and that\u0026rsquo;s my favourite part of working at Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a people manager, David values openness which means he and his direct reports give the whole team access to as much information as they can and there is little that happens behind closed doors. They also value mindfulness and ensure many people have input into decision-making. He says, \u0026ldquo;While we make decisions quickly we don\u0026rsquo;t do so on the basis of salesmanship or by deferring to the loudest voice in the room.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDavid\u0026rsquo;s favourite Amazon Leadership Principle\u0026nbsp;is Earn Trust. He is convinced that to be a successful tech director he has to know what else the other teams are working on, where his team fits in, and how they can work with other teams across Amazon to be, collectively, more than the sum of the parts. \u0026ldquo;Building and maintaining a network across the company, reinforced by mutual trust and respect, keeps me and my team connected and enables us to have much more impact for customers than if we worked alone,\u0026rdquo; he adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his time with Amazon, David has learned to advise his team by asking questions, not by telling them how to do their jobs. \u0026ldquo;Invariably, the team come back with a better design or a bigger idea.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, David enjoys spending time in the mountains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/622/images/DavidH-546.jpg?1539161160","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/622/thumbnails/DavidH-300.jpg?1539161160","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/cambridge-uk","title":"Cambridge, England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-information","title":"Alexa Information"}},{"id":"maryam-f","identifier":"maryam-f","name":"Maryam F","first_name":"Maryam","job_title":"Applied Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaryam began her graduate studies at the University of Toronto in 2005, just six years after her parents received their PhDs from the same school. After earning their degrees \u0026mdash; her mother\u0026rsquo;s in sociology, her father\u0026rsquo;s in industrial engineering \u0026mdash; Maryam\u0026rsquo;s parents moved the family back to Iran, where Maryam had spent her first 10 years, and began academic careers. Maryam\u0026rsquo;s brother, Mohammad, who like his parents and his big sister has a PhD from University of Toronto, also went the academic route: He\u0026rsquo;s currently a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOnly Maryam took a job in industry. \u0026ldquo;When I was a grad student, getting data for research was just such a hassle,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;It took me a year to be able to get data from a company. And I couldn\u0026rsquo;t really see the fruits of my research. In industry, I develop something, and it might take a year, it might take two, but eventually, I will see what I have developed.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMaryam had completed high school in Toronto when the family moved back to Iran, and she earned her undergraduate degree from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, where her thesis project was the design of a natural-language-processing system for Farsi. After completing a master\u0026rsquo;s and a PhD at Toronto, she went to work at Nuance Communications, which has a major research facility in Montreal. Four years later, she joined the Alexa research team in Cambridge, MA.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, Maryam is working on a dialogue system that enables Alexa to engage in natural and intelligent conversations, in order to execute complex tasks. For instance, the system might converse briefly with a customer and then book tickets to a movie at a time that doesn\u0026rsquo;t conflict with anything else in her calendar at a theater that\u0026rsquo;s walking distance from an Indian restaurant that gets at least four stars on Yelp!. The system is able to learn from data, recover from errors, and get smarter with more conversations with users. A first demonstration of the system is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-MovieBot/dp/B01MRKGF5W\"\u003eMovieBot\u003c/a\u003e skill, but the underlying technology is applicable to an unlimited range of tasks.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Maryam enjoys hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and she has been taking art classes at Boston\u0026rsquo;s Museum of Fine Arts. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve done art throughout my life as a way of expressing myself,\u0026rdquo; she says. 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After working on solving big data analytics in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kelsey jumped at the opportunity to join Amazon in her home state of Colorado and take big data analysis to the next level. \u0026quot;I was excited to learn how to interpret data at scale in a meaningful, reliable way.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKelsey builds tools that monitor advertising data as it flows through the Amazon Advertising systems. These tools help deliver high fidelity data to customers. \u0026quot;Working at Amazon makes me a better developer by extending my skillset beyond just writing code to understanding how to make it more reliable and available. I also love the autonomy that each team has at Amazon, because it helps us deliver high impact work faster.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Kelsey spends her time in the foothills and mountains: running, backpacking, skiing, and making the most of Colorado living.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/624/images/kelsey.jpg?1539377514","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/624/thumbnails/kelsey.jpg?1539377514","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":null,"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/multichannel-advertising","title":"Multichannel Advertising"}},{"id":"amy-c","identifier":"amy-c","name":"Amy C. 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Plus, I get to spend my days doing exciting work alongside smart, driven and passionate colleagues.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmy commutes to work on a ferry and on the other side of that ride she spends her time with her four young children and her husband. 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The mission of her team is to plan and execute programs of change for AMZL EU, with a focus on further optimisation of existing systems and processes.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHer proudest moment at Amazon was at the beginning of her current role. She was part of the AMZL Business Development team and actively participated in the launch of AMZL in Italy in 2016 and Spain in 2017.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;Seeing a strong and unified Operations team emerge from day one was a fantastic experience and very rewarding not only professionally but also personally.\u0026nbsp; I met some very talented people with whom I keep contact, and I can still see how well the team are doing today and how big they have become,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSonia has had many different positions at Amazon since joining in 2008.The opportunity to grow both vertically and laterally within the organisation is her favorite part about working with Amazon. \u0026ldquo;There are no barriers to growth within Amazon. The learning opportunities are significant, so even if you may feel you have gained as much as you can from a given role in terms of learning, you can then explore laterally and take on new challenges,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;Amazon is the perfect example of how great things can happen and you get to choose what those great things are,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked about her superpower, her answer is immediate: Speed. \u0026ldquo;I used to be called Supersonic as a kid, and even now a few of my work colleagues call me this,\u0026rdquo; she recalls.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Sonia enjoys combining sport and activities with her children. \u0026ldquo;To remain sporty, I force myself to do crazy dances or sports with my children and literally act like a 4-year-old child and that entertains them as well as keeping me active.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/626/images/543x543_Sonia.jpg?1539986252","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/626/thumbnails/543x543_Sonia.jpg?1539986253","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/transport","title":"Transportation \u0026 Logistics"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/luxembourg-city-luxembourg","title":"Luxembourg City, Luxembourg"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amzl","title":"Amazon Logistics"}},{"id":"maria-z","identifier":"maria-z","name":"Maria Z. 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In this role, Cameron is responsible for leading the Public Sector business across the European continent. His focus is on growing and developing the sales teams in key regions including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Nordics, as well as cultivating partnerships with government and education clients to enable their transformation through cloud computing.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCameron is passionate about enabling digital transformation in the public sector and the opportunity we have at AWS to leverage new technologies to deliver solutions for clients. \u0026ldquo;I have spent the last 15 years using my technology background to grow emerging businesses and guide clients in areas such as AI, Healthcare, Smarter Cities, and Supercomputing.\u0026rdquo; In AWS, Cameron has found himself part of an organization that has both the technology and the vision to vastly improve how public agencies operate. He appreciates the opportunity to help customers leverage technology and deliver services that truly impact the lives of millions of people. \u0026ldquo;Citizens are able to get a more efficient, streamlined experience with their social security agency, or medical researchers can provide quicker breakthroughs leading to healthier patients; even national security can be improved with the use of data analytics.\u0026nbsp;We are seeing all of these changes now in Public Sector, and it is very inspiring to be part of that.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eComing from a more traditional IT vendor, where Cameron spent the majority of his career, the first thing Cameron noticed about AWS was the incredible level of customer obsession, which is one of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Leadership Principles.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;When you are a customer of \u003ca href=\"http://Amazon.com\"\u003eAmazon.com\u003c/a\u003e, you start to see a bit of the customer obsession, but by being on the inside, you realize how much the company uses it to guide the decisions and day-to-day activities.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, Cameron is a lifelong learner, so it\u0026rsquo;s no surprise that his favorite Leadership Principle is \u003cem\u003eLearn and Be Curious\u003c/em\u003e. \u0026ldquo;I have always had a natural curiosity and this is what inspired me to become an engineer, and eventually complete four degrees.\u0026nbsp;Learning is so important, because it feeds innovation and imagination, helps you to think \u003cem\u003ebig\u003c/em\u003e and\u0026nbsp;gives you the confidence to make strategic decisions. I have learned so much since joining AWS nine months ago, but I feel that my thirst for knowledge will never be satisfied.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Cameron enjoys immersing himself in different cultures. Although currently living in London, New York is his permanent home, and in the last 5 years he has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East \u0026ndash; both recreationally and for business. He also enjoys running, skiing and the outdoors, but most of all, spending time exploring the world with his wife and two daughters. You need to look no further than Cameron\u0026rsquo;s Amazon shopping cart to get this sense of family. His list currently includes \u0026ldquo;an amp and microphone for my younger daughter who plays guitar and has a beautiful singing voice, a backpack for my oldest daughter who is looking to join a community service summer camp next summer in the French Caribbean or Africa, and a new camera lens for my wife who has just turned her hobby of photography into a small business.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAWS is a place where Cameron\u0026rsquo;s continual desire to learn and explore leads to great things for customers, including government agencies, educational systems and nonprofits. 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But if he was reacting against his father\u0026rsquo;s influence, it wasn\u0026rsquo;t because he found antiques boring and outdated \u0026mdash; just the opposite.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;He was bringing a lot of this old stuff home, which for kids was interesting,\u0026rdquo; Alessandro says. \u0026ldquo;I liked playing with this old stuff, but the precision mechanisms of the old clocks and watches were so accurate and complicated that it probably pushed me towards something simpler to understand and manage.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Alessandro was small, his father gave him both a chemistry kit and an electronics kit. 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The course of his life was set.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlessandro attended ITIS Enrico Fermi, a technical high school in Rome, and remained in Rome for college and graduate school, earning his undergraduate degree and master\u0026rsquo;s from Sapienza University of Rome and his PhD in computer science from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2007, after postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Rome, he took a faculty post in the computer science department at the University of Trento. Between 2013 and 2018, while maintaining his Trento appointment, he contributed to the creation of one of the Middle East\u0026rsquo;s most advanced research centers in natural-language processing, at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. 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As you shift your career, the likelihood of finding a single position that leverages all of your experience becomes slim. Yet that is just what Anna has found in AWS. \u0026ldquo;I chose to join AWS because I realized that I would get to use all my previous experience and knowledge. I have a quite diverse background within safety ranging from health \u0026amp; safety management systems to machine safety. Prior to joining AWS I was the Health \u0026amp; Safety manager for a Facility Management company in Sweden and had developed a safety management system for the Nordic countries so I knew how to organize the health and safety work. But I also have a more technical background having worked as a machine safety specialist in a railway project and risk assessment leader in a pharma company. 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Every injury has a bigger impact than just on the person getting injured and their work. It can impact their entire family and community. It could be a father not being able to tie their kid\u0026rsquo;s shoelaces before school because of a hand injury or a team mate not being able to attend an important game because of a hurt ankle. I want to make sure everyone comes home safe so they can enjoy their time off work doing the things they love.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her own time off, it\u0026rsquo;s no surprise that Anna enjoys a range of different activities. \u0026ldquo;I grew up in France, just next to Switzerland, so I used to go skiing every week-end and it is still something I love doing. I also love reading, going to whisky testing evenings and spending times with friends and family. Outside of work I also play a sport called roller derby which I love. I also spend quite a lot of time answering my son\u0026rsquo;s million questions about the world. 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His introduction to AWS came over lunch with a friend. \u0026ldquo;A mate who worked at AWS detailed the Amazon culture one day over lunch. That combined with the idea of running the largest cloud services provider in the world had me hooked and I had to apply!\u0026rdquo; Today, it\u0026rsquo;s the people he works with that makes him happy to be part of AWS. \u0026ldquo;A company is nothing without its employees. While being proud of the work I do means a lot, it\u0026rsquo;s the individuals I work with across all business units that makes me excited to come to work every day.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEven Julian\u0026rsquo;s professional growth in his role has revolved around people and the impact he can have on their success. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve learned many skills while in AWS but the greatest career leaps have been training new hires and now managing the Sydney Data Center Operations intern program. 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It\u0026rsquo;s a tough but satisfying thing.\u0026rdquo; And he keeps the fun going at home; he has a special talent that keeps his family entertained. \u0026ldquo;I can make a dad-joke pun for any situation.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/659/images/Julian_Sequeira.jpg?1542156493","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/659/thumbnails/Julian_Sequeira.jpg?1542156493","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/sydney-australia","title":"Sydney, Australia"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/operations-it-support-engineering","title":"Operations, IT, \u0026 Support Engineering"},"team":null},{"id":"kelly-h","identifier":"kelly-h","name":"Kelly H","first_name":"Kelly","job_title":"Global Head of AWS Partner Network","description":"\u003cp\u003eKelly has been a fan of Amazon for years, but it wasn\u0026rsquo;t until she became aware of AWS\u0026rsquo;s plans to change how companies think about their technology investments that she knew she had to join. \u0026ldquo;I worked in the technology industry for more than a decade and when AWS came into the picture and started creating new ways for customers to operate, it became my dream to work for AWS. Plus, like many people, I was an early Prime adopter and advocate so I already loved Amazon.\u0026nbsp; I thought, could it get any better than working for a company I love in a technology space that is transforming businesses? \u0026ldquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince her start with AWS in 2014, her career has taken off. \u0026ldquo;I joined AWS in the partner organization, but my role has shifted dramatically. I was originally hired to build the Managed Service Provider Channel and Program as an individual contributor.\u0026nbsp; After that I assumed my current role, heading up the Amazon Partner Network, but started out with a small team performing marketing, enablement, and program functions that other companies would staff with a team of hundreds. The team has now grown significantly, along with the maturity of the APN, and we are making a tremendous difference in the business. I\u0026rsquo;m really proud what the team has built in such a short time!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKelly attributes a lot of her professional growth to the learning opportunities she\u0026rsquo;s been exposed to at AWS. \u0026ldquo;My favorite part about working for AWS is learning from my coworkers.\u0026nbsp; There is something really special about the caliber of individuals we hire and being able to learn from their experiences. 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He\u0026rsquo;d moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue his dream of working in the areas thriving tech industry, and was attracted to the AWS culture. \u0026ldquo;. I came across a job posting for AWS and it sounded too good to be true. The job description was a perfect blend of my experience and it was with a Fortune 100 company. As I learned more about the company and the Amazon leadership principles, it only grew my excitement.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom that day in 2013 when he joined as an engineering operations technician to now, Michael has expanded his scope of responsibility and developed new skills along the way. \u0026ldquo;I went on to become a Chief Engineer who was responsible for the operations of San Francisco data center cluster. I later transitioned over to the Field Engineering team and supported the US-West region with infrastructure upgrade and efficiency projects. 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She started her professional career in Amazon, exactly nine\u0026nbsp;days after obtaining her MSc in Industrial Engineering: \u0026ldquo;I literally came into the business straight from university!\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nA lot has changed in just over three years for Anna. Within Operations, she has had the opportunity to work alongside inspiring colleagues and mentors and take innumerable new challenges onboard. \u0026ldquo;I have been promoted twice, changed five\u0026nbsp;different sites and also supported the launch of Amazon Logistics in Rome \u0026ndash; my home town,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAnna\u0026rsquo;s team mission is to delight customers starting from the second an order is placed online. Working in the Last Mile operations, her team looks after parcels in the last stages of their journey ensuring they safely reach their final destinations: from the Sortation Centers to our Delivery Stations, from the drivers\u0026rsquo; vehicles to the customers\u0026rsquo; hands.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHer proudest moment at Amazon refers to the inclusive working environment in which she is operating, where diversity is perceived as an essential asset to the team success. \u0026ldquo;As a woman in operations and as a leader, I do my very best every day to promote equality by recognizing, rewarding and celebrating diversity in the work place. This year I have organized the International Women\u0026rsquo;s Day 2018 in Amazon Logistics UK, bringing 41 sites together across the country to celebrate progress and support a charity that employs women with disadvantageous backgrounds and helps them fulfilling their professional goals,\u0026rdquo; she recalls.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Anna also likes in her job is developing her team and empowering them to exceed their own expectations. \u0026ldquo;There is nothing more rewarding than seeing your team succeeding!\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Anna\u0026rsquo;s rule is the 5Fs: Fun, Food, Family, Friends and Future. \u0026ldquo;Being around people and sharing great experiences (and great food!) definitely boosts my energy. I love cooking, spending time outdoor with my friends (whether it\u0026rsquo;s hiking, sailing or shopping!) or simply watching a movie on the sofa with a hot cup of coffee,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;People who know me well might say that I can\u0026rsquo;t stand still and I always need to run 200 mph. I\u0026rsquo;m hardly ever content with the status quo and I\u0026rsquo;m always busy planning for the next adventures,\u0026rdquo; she adds\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/669/images/Anna_543x543.jpg?1542752786","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/669/thumbnails/Anna_543x543.jpg?1542752786","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/transport","title":"Transportation \u0026 Logistics"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/unitedkingdom","title":"United Kingdom, Europe"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amzl","title":"Amazon Logistics"}},{"id":"silvana-s","identifier":"silvana-s","name":"Silvana S.","first_name":"Silvana","job_title":"Senior Operations Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilvana joined Amazon in 2003 in the pack department as associate responsible for packing ordered items into boxes. Most times during the first six years, she provided the gift-wrap packaging service to customers. During that time, she studied economics at the distance learning university in Hagen \u0026ndash; Germany. Afterwards, she joined the Learning department, worked as an Outbound Area Manager in several departments and became an Inbound Operations Manager. Since 2017, she has been a Senior Operations Manager responsible for all shifts of the Outbound Department with more than 1,200 associates. The goal of her team is to ship all packages in time on every working day. This ensures that customers will receive the ordered items at the expected date.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHer proudest moment at Amazon in her own words: \u0026ldquo;I am proud to be the supervisor of my outbound team that works hard every day in order to fulfill the expectation of our customers combined with a lot of fun on each working day.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHer favorite part about working at Amazon is that there are almost unlimited career development possibilities. \u0026ldquo;Amazon is highly dynamic and each day is different. This makes it very interesting and still every day is day one,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHer favorite Amazon Leadership Principle is\u0026nbsp;Invent and Simplify. \u0026ldquo;It is very important to improve processes every day and this is what I expect from my team. A day without a new idea or a process change is a wasted day,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked about her superpower, her answer is immediate: developing people.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I put great emphasis on developing my team members. Helping them grow and preparing them for the next career step is one of my superpowers.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Silvana likes to dedicate time for her football team. \u0026ldquo;Since 10 years, I am an owner of a season ticket for away games of my favorite football team VfB Stuttgart. Every second weekend I am on the road. Usually these trips are combined with sightseeing and relaxing,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/670/images/Silvana_543x543.jpg?1542752971","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/670/thumbnails/Silvana_543x543.jpg?1542752971","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bad-hersfeld-germany","title":"Bad Hersfeld, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":null},{"id":"jennifer-a","identifier":"jennifer-a","name":"Jennifer A. ","first_name":"Jennifer","job_title":"Area Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eJennifer joined Amazon\u0026nbsp;in July 2017, immediately after completing her Bachelor\u0026#39;s degree. After few weeks of training all around Europe, she started managing her first team.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;When I was in university, one of my professors asked me to prepare a case study on Amazon. During my research, I discovered many values that inspired me a lot and I knew from that time that Amazon would be the perfect company for me,\u0026rdquo; she recalls. \u0026ldquo;I was impressed, how much Amazon is investing on young graduates in order to give them the opportunity to manage a team of up to 180 people,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;The goal of my team is to ensure that customers will be able to have at their disposal items on the website in order to be delivered on time to satisfy their wishes. Additionally, my job is to ensure we meet daily objectives for satisfying our customers, making flow and team work together, improving process and of course ensuring safety. What is interesting in the job is that I am practicing multiple disciplines in management, logistics, and strategy.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nShe refers to her proudest moment at Amazon as the implementation of the new transshipment process aimed to improve and meet expectations on customer delivery. \u0026ldquo;Initiating, adapting and training people on that new process was so exciting and interesting for me. Also, being able to develop the skills of my leads and associates on that particular process have been a great achievement for me as well as results observed and delivered,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;What is unique at Amazon is that the company is growing so quickly that you never stop learning. You learn about different aspects of the business such as processes but also about human interactions and about yourself. One sentence that has never been so true is that every day is day 1 at Amazon. You are always learning new things, which leads Amazonians to develop themselves very quickly on both the professional and personal view. Improving my skills and the skills of my associates is what I truly love at Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;I love working at Amazon for different reasons: The multicultural and diverse environment in which I am operating, the unlimited career development opportunities you can have and the horizontal management style which gives a friendly atmosphere on a daily basis.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, she plays\u0026nbsp;Handball and she has been University France Champion twice.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/672/images/jennifer_Araneo__543.jpg?1542756682","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/672/thumbnails/jennifer_Araneo__543.jpg?1542756682","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/montelimar-france","title":"Montelimar, France"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"ava-y","identifier":"ava-y","name":"Ava Y.","first_name":"Ava","job_title":"Business Operations Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eAva is an EU Business Operations Manager on the Alexa Skills team. The Alexa Skills team focuses on expanding Alexa\u0026rsquo;s capabilities by working with developers to build Alexa skills customers love. In her role, Ava helps shape the direction of Alexa skills EU and enable the business teams to operate more efficiently. Her responsibilities include business reviews and program management of the launch of key features in Europe. Most specifically, she helped launch the \u003ca href=\"https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/1dee3fa0-8c5f-4179-ab7a-74545ead24ce/introducing-the-alexa-presentation-language-preview\"\u003eAlexa Presentation Language (APL)\u003c/a\u003e in the UK, in Germany, and in France. This suite of features allows developers to build interactive voice experiences with rich visual experience on different device types. The product launch was a complex one, with many stakeholders and teams involved. Ava and the team were able to deliver 15 enhanced skill experiences at device launch.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAva feels energized by the Amazon\u0026rsquo;s people and the company\u0026rsquo;s unique culture. She deems that the focus on customers makes it a work environment with very little bureaucracy. \u0026ldquo;The Amazon culture allows you to think like an owner and gives you the opportunity to try new things,\u0026rdquo; she explains. \u0026ldquo;I especially enjoy having great leaders to learn from. They are approachable, open-minded and transparent.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDive deep and Think big are the two Leadership Principles that resonate most with Ava. She has introduced and created a program that helps the team allocate resources more efficiently and deliver increased value to customers and developers. \u0026ldquo;The program sets up a tiered service package to support and incentivize developers to continuously invest in Alexa skills. The objective is to spin the selection and delight the Alexa users,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, Ava enjoys running, swimming, yoga, skiing, travelling and anything outdoors.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/673/images/Ava-546.jpg?1542785810","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/673/thumbnails/Ava-300.jpg?1542785810","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/london","title":"London (Greater London Area), England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/business-merchant-development","title":"Business \u0026 Merchant Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-skills","title":"Alexa Skills Team "}},{"id":"harriet-h","identifier":"harriet-h","name":"Harriet H.","first_name":"Harriet","job_title":"Senior Operations Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmazon\u0026#39;s relentless focus on the customer drove Harriet\u0026#39;s decision to join the Alexa Content Operations team after 17 years working in strategy consulting and Financial Services. \u0026ldquo;I was tired of fixing problems from the past. At Amazon and Alexa, I feel we are building for the future and with the customer in mind, be that an end user or a developer building for Alexa.\u0026rdquo; She easily figured out how to transfer the skills from her first career as a strategy consultant to become an expert in a new industry with different functional skills.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet\u0026#39;s team manages the third party (3P) skills catalogue for Alexa across all devices. This involves the entire life cycle, from the time a developer submits a skill to the time it is put up on the store, and ensuring a high-quality experience for Alexa customers after that. Harriet\u0026rsquo;s team protects the customer experience by ensuring that what is released live meets standards, for instance for functionality, policy and security. \u0026ldquo;We also see developers as our customers, who my team support for technical or non-technical questions,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet has recently worked on skills launches on the UK market. Harriet explains it was a huge effort, under tight timeframes, and multiple teams worked together from Business Development, Solution Architects, Developer and Consumer Marketing, Legal, and Operations. \u0026ldquo;It was Amazon at its best!\u0026rdquo; she exclaims. \u0026ldquo;Seeing positive customer reviews come onto the storefront makes the hard work worthwhile.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBesides Customer Obsession, Harriet\u0026rsquo;s favourite Amazon Leadership Principle is Hire and Develop the Best. When she joined Amazon in September 2018, her role was to build the UK operations for Alexa from scratch. \u0026ldquo;We have now grown to a lean team of 14. We are a very diverse group of colleagues from various industries and backgrounds,\u0026quot; she explains. \u0026ldquo;I love to see how each member of the team is contributing to the goals of the Alexa Skills team and achieving their own unique ambitions.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHarriet spends the majority of her non-working time with her daughter and her husband. When she has time to herself, she likes to run long distance on off-road trails. \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;ve run in places like Namibia, along the Wild Coast of South Africa, across the coast to coast of Scotland, and even a full marathon on Antarctica. I love exploring nature, and the challenge and adventure of navigating across a rough terrain. I also find there are many lessons that transfer to the workplace, like the importance of good preparation, of pacing and breaking down a large goal to smaller achievable milestones.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/674/images/Harriet-546.jpg?1542790847","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/674/thumbnails/Harriet-300.jpg?1542790847","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/london","title":"London (Greater London Area), England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-skills","title":"Alexa Skills Team "}},{"id":"kristin-f","identifier":"kristin-f","name":"Kristin F.","first_name":"Kristin","job_title":"Developer Marketing Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eKristin is a Developer Marketing Manager on the Alexa Skills team in Berlin. Her focus is to educate and enable German-speaking developers to build Alexa Skills that delight customers. She organizes onsite workshops, events, online webinars and creates and localizes content\u0026nbsp;that helps and inspires developers to create voice experiences.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKristin has been with Amazon, and on this team, since 2017. Her latest project was the launch of an Alexa Skills Challenge, especially for voice games. For the first time, the seven-week skills building contest was available for developers across Germany, Austria, the UK and Ireland. Kristin was responsible for the overall strategy and project execution. She has worked with stakeholders from different teams across several countries. \u0026ldquo;It was a valuable learning experience and a growth opportunity for me,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;It was also exciting to connect with our developers and to see how we could best support them to bring their inspiring ideas to life.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is important for Kristin to believe in the values of the company she works for. Customer obsession is one of the Amazon Leadership Principles that specifically resonates with her. She likes to think she works towards making her customers\u0026#39; lives easier. As such, Kristin values the feedback of the developer community. \u0026ldquo;This is extremely rewarding when developers emphasize on how useful they find the information and the tools we provide them with. I also like when developers contact us directly with constructive feedback. It means that we have earned their trust and this makes me proud,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKristin says she is a people person. Her superpower is her ability to connect with various people. That is the other reasons she likes working at Amazon. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m passionate and curious to learn about people\u0026#39;s experience, their motivation and their goals. I learn a lot from my colleagues, which inspires me and drives me to develop my own ideas further. I feel empowered in this agile environment and my opinion is valued,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, you will probably find Kristin enjoying a theatre play (she used to do some acting as a hobby for over 10 years), reading about startups\u0026rsquo; strategies, and watching TV (she is a big fan of Sci-Fi shows like Walking Dead). Her biggest passion is music though, from listening to singing to playing music.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/675/images/Kristin546.jpg?1542791471","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/675/thumbnails/Kristin300.jpg?1542791471","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/marketing-pr","title":"Marketing \u0026 PR"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-skills","title":"Alexa Skills Team "}},{"id":"saba-h","identifier":"saba-h","name":"Saba H. ","first_name":"Saba","job_title":"Senior Operations Manager\t\t","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaba joined Amazon Operations in 2015 supporting the launch team for UK Pantry and immediately found herself launching the first Amazon Robotics facility in the UK. \u0026ldquo;This launch was my proudest moment at Amazon. I was surrounded by the smartest people I had ever worked with,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhat Saba likes the most in her job\u0026nbsp;is working closely with her team. \u0026ldquo;When anyone in my team comes up with a cool idea, what an awesome feeling to be able to convert this idea into a project and run\u0026nbsp;it with them,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSaba also enjoys\u0026nbsp;the diverse environment in which she is operating. \u0026ldquo;In a typical day, I could be working with supply chain colleagues buying biscuits; logistics teams moving thousands of trucks around the continent but also Robotics engineers working on cool AI concepts.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked about her favorite leadership principle, her immediate answer is Invent and Simplify. \u0026ldquo;I always have been encouraged, taught and enabled to make processes and ultimately our business simpler and more scalable, always keeping in mind the added value that these changes could bring to our customers. I love that philosophy and it makes my job really enjoyable,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSaba\u0026rsquo;s motto is \u0026ldquo;why do we do it this way?\u0026rdquo; This statement helps her on a daily basis to manage and drive her team into the right direction in order to look at potential improvements they could achieve all together.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Saba is involved in her\u0026nbsp;local library. She gives weekly lesson to children who are struggling with numeracy. \u0026ldquo;I also learned a lot during these sessions as I\u0026rsquo;m using my key learning to support my nine-year-old\u0026nbsp;son on improving his numeracy skills too.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/676/images/Saba_543.jpg?1542825613","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/676/thumbnails/Saba_543.jpg?1542825613","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/doncaster-uk","title":"Doncaster, England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"jamie-g","identifier":"jamie-g","name":"Jamie G. ","first_name":"Jamie","job_title":"Developer Advocate Technical Lead","description":"\u003cp\u003eJamie is a Developer Advocate Technical Lead for the Alexa Developer Advocacy Group. His team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to act as the \u0026ldquo;Voice of the Developer\u0026rdquo; and he works with his team to assist with the creation of Alexa Skills focusing on concepts such as coding, voice design and more.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs the most tenured member on the team, Jamie is the go-to person for knowledge sharing: he creates new Standard Operation Process documents (SOPs), tools and other processes to help the overall team do their job more efficiently. \u0026ldquo;Our goal is to address our developer\u0026rsquo;s queries as soon as possible and with high-quality responses. Long term, we also work on educational content and new initiatives, so that certain questions are not even asked to begin with,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Jamie\u0026rsquo;s proudest moments in his Amazon career was teaching Alexa development live on Twitch. The goal was to help developers create engaging game skills and involved over 6 hours of being in front of a camera and a virtual audience. In the past, Jamie\u0026nbsp;also volunteered to create a multimodal Alexa skill template with a \u003ca href=\"https://developer.amazon.com/zh/blogs/alexa/post/5c715ea0-4e93-47d3-a4e9-b43e78fd455d/new-alexa-skill-sample-build-a-quiz-dictionary-skill-for-echo-devices-with-screens\"\u003ecomplimentary blog post\u003c/a\u003e. \u0026ldquo;Amazon creates an environment where everyone is empowered to pursue other projects and initiatives they feel could be beneficial for both relevant internal teams and our customers,\u0026rdquo; he explains. \u0026ldquo;Though I had written educational content previously and helped developers around the world at developer workshops, being able to stream on the first EU Twitch \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvOz_25Zq0\"\u003eAlexa stream\u003c/a\u003e and interact with the community instantly was awesome.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis start-up spirit is what Jamie likes the most about the Amazon culture.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I get to work on different things each day. If I have a good idea, I feel safe to present it to my leadership and have a direct impact.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJamie adds that his favourite Leadership Principle is Invent and Simplify with his recent efforts making the team\u0026rsquo;s tools easier to use. \u0026ldquo;The platform we use to answer customers on a public discussion board was not user-friendly. It took longer for us to use it than actually publish the answers and help our customers, so I created an \u0026lsquo;Enhancement Suite\u0026rsquo; that makes things easier and faster for the global team to use.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Jamie likes to play video games, code and work on various projects like creating educational content, publishing humorous videos or just hacking. \u0026ldquo;I also try - emphasis on try - to go to the gym regularly and will hopefully be able to squat 100KG by the end of the year. Why? Why not,\u0026rdquo; he adds\u003cem\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/678/images/Jamie-546.jpg?1543319801","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/678/thumbnails/Jamie-300.jpg?1543319801","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/london","title":"London (Greater London Area), England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/operations-it-support-engineering","title":"Operations, IT, \u0026 Support Engineering"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-skills","title":"Alexa Skills Team "}},{"id":"matteo-b","identifier":"matteo-b","name":"Matteo B.","first_name":"Matteo","job_title":"Area Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatteo joined Amazon in March 2017 as a Graduate Area Manager in Vercelli, Italy. He started his on-the-job training as Outbound Area Manager in a Fulfillment Center in Pforzheim (Germany). During the first two months, he also participated to the Learning-By-Doing program in Madrid, which helped him to cultivate his skills in his role and to meet colleagues from all over the Europe.\u0026nbsp; In September 2017, Matteo had the opportunity to join the launch team of the new site in Vercelli, Italy. \u0026ldquo;As an Area Manager, the experience of launching a Fulfillment Center gave me the chance to quickly advance in my learning curve and gain an in-depth knowledge regarding processes\u0026rsquo; configuration. It was such a unique experience to start up a warehouse from scratch in order to see the team and processes growing thanks to my contribution,\u0026rdquo; he explains.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMatteo\u0026rsquo;s team mission is to pick, pack and ship customers\u0026rsquo; orders and make sure they receive their parcel on time. \u0026ldquo;The journey of the parcel starts from us! Therefore, quality and timing are the two essential components for us to make every customer happy,\u0026rdquo; he adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHis proudest moment at Amazon refers to his election as a Team Lead Coach in his fulfillment center.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;This role enables me to participate to the training and development of other team leads. The experience of coaching, mentoring and being a role model for them is something for which I am proud of,\u0026rdquo; he recalls.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMatteo\u0026rsquo;s favorite part about working at Amazon is the sense of being part of a company which is shaping the future in several fields. \u0026ldquo;My job in operations is the perfect mix of a vast range of skills which is unique. It is a very interesting combination of people management, process engineering and leadership,\u0026rdquo; he adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;My strongest leadership principle is Deliver Results which is actually my number one priority as Outbound Flow Area Manager. In days like Prime Day, Black Friday or Cyber Monday, I can really show what it means to prepare and guide the team in achieving and going beyond any targets,\u0026rdquo; he explains.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Matteo likes to practice gymnastics and explore vegan kitchen.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/679/images/Mateo_B_543x543.jpg?1543384891","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/679/thumbnails/Mateo_B_543x543.jpg?1543384891","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/vercelli-italy","title":"Vercelli, Italy"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"naveen-g","identifier":"naveen-g","name":"Naveen G.","first_name":"Naveen","job_title":"Product Compliance Specialist","description":"\u003cp\u003eNaveen joined Amazon and his current team in 2016. His team is responsible for keeping Amazon Catalog free from illegal and unsafe products as per local Compliance Laws. As a Product Compliance Specialist, Naveen identifies and builds solutions for complex issues. \u0026ldquo;It starts with training the team with industry knowledge,\u0026rdquo; he explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNaveen has helped launch \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com.tr/\"\u003ea\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com.tr/\"\u003emazon.com.tr\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;and has been managing the day-to-day operations of the Turkish Restricted Products team. He recalls that at the very beginning of the launch project, he and his team identified some \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15488562564060503466475\"\u003eproduct\u0026rsquo;s\u003c/gwmw\u003e descriptions with translation quality-issues. Naveen did a deep dive to identify the pipeline that was causing the \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15488562579159173100190\"\u003emistranslations\u003c/gwmw\u003e, quantify them and identify the root cause. His suggested improvements are now implemented across the marketplaces; increasing the catalogue quality. \u0026ldquo;I used my ability to connect the dots to underline the problem. This helped us not to duplicate efforts,\u0026rdquo; he explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Naveen, Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture is unique in that constant focus on inventing on behalf of its customers. \u0026ldquo;\u0026rsquo;This is why we say \u0026lsquo;It\u0026rsquo;s always Day 1\u0026rsquo;, it\u0026rsquo;s a continuous reminder to remain full of energy, to move fast and to build with the customer experience in mind,\u0026rdquo; adds Naveen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he is not at work, Naveen spends time with kids from different shelter homes. \u0026ldquo;I created the \u0026lsquo;\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006634696034\u0026amp;__tn__=%2CdlC-R-R\u0026amp;eid=ARAPJIb-FBVpQ1lm0pdKNITa6hOsXiZm7wSCjnO1YhZrljr_8MjT6jNZf7JTHrtriG-4SxTqx_mCPklH\u0026amp;hc_ref=ARSSX-xN_BOQ6F-nOOG_PDP0U6Ni5I5QDZClqFsOElDN-aOIoOnMgVG5RLicJEkwIo4\"\u003eRevenire team\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rsquo; with some friends when we were at the University. We help support 24 kids and participate in their education. Since I have relocated to Poland, my friends are taking care of these events. Few of them are also proud Amazonians.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/680/images/Naveen-546.jpg?1543397953","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/680/thumbnails/Naveen-300.jpg?1543397953","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/business-corporate-development","title":"Business \u0026 Corporate Development"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/gdansk-poland","title":"Gdansk, Poland"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/editorial-writing-content-management","title":"Editorial, Writing, \u0026 Content Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/compliance-operations","title":"Compliance Operations Team"}},{"id":"xue-w","identifier":"xue-w","name":"Xue W. 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Nothing is more exciting than experiencing new challenges in my career and it is so rewarding to observe the immediate impact of my work.\u0026rdquo; Xue says there are more parallels between PhD study and working at Amazon. For example, \u0026ldquo;creativity plays an important role in both. As a PhD student you put your creativity to work by analyzing lab experiment data and forming new theories. Within Amazon Advertising, we use our creativity to find innovative ways to provide better customer experiences. I can constantly learn new things and have the opportunity to develop my ideas. At Amazon, every step that I make contributes to the progress of the team.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/681/images/wangxe-badge-photo.jpg?1550093063","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/681/thumbnails/wangxe-badge-photo.jpg?1550093065","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/multichannel-advertising","title":"Multichannel Advertising"}},{"id":"sameera-b","identifier":"sameera-b","name":"Sameera B.","first_name":"Sameera","job_title":"Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Sameera, being part of the Amazon family means having the opportunity to work on products that have a direct impact on millions of people around her and the world. The consistent pursuit of excellence and the feeling that it is always Day One is Sameera\u0026rsquo;s favorite part about working at Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeing able to tangibly see her work in production on her and her family\u0026rsquo;s Echo is a reminder of the impact that she gets to be a part of. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s always nice to hear that the work one does improves the quality of living. Hearing things such as \u0026ldquo;I just hooked up my home to Alexa, she makes my life so easy!\u0026rdquo; from a friendly stranger reminds her that she is a part of something bigger, something different, something personal.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;These are our customers and we have the privilege of getting direct feedback for the work we do. It\u0026rsquo;s a great feeling to know that I am making a difference.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, you can find Sameera traveling and exploring local life and culture. \u0026ldquo;I love travelling. 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What he didn\u0026rsquo;t know was that \u0026ldquo;quickly\u0026rdquo; meant the second day after he finished setting up his laptop. \u0026ldquo;I met my mentor, who was going to eventually hand off her project to me. She took out a ream of forecasts and said, \u0026lsquo;Okay, we need to have these ready Friday. Each one is worth millions of dollars in hardware. What do you think?\u0026rsquo; Thank goodness she had so much experience; I had never even done that before.\u0026rdquo; That quick start put him in position to influence the important preparations for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;I knew from a financial perspective how vital this time was to Amazon. I was still surprised at how many teams spent almost half the year preparing for one extended weekend.\u0026rdquo; It was not the first time he\u0026rsquo;d be surprised by the companies willingness to trust important projects to him.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThree and a half years later, Evan is still in awe at what employees get to do at Amazon. \u0026ldquo;Because Amazon takes scalability and data seriously, we give economists unprecedented ability to influence decisions. They can work for and with any team. My colleagues have influenced almost every facet of this company, from website UI, to shipping, pricing, and even worker pay.\u0026nbsp; I doubt there are many places where economists can claim that.\u0026rdquo; Evan is currently working in Physical Store Real Estate, where he and his colleagues help find the best locations for Bookstores and other projects that bring Amazon\u0026rsquo;s customer experience into the physical realm. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/683/images/9ded1b4f3fcd391dfd65cc622604dd45befd8dcbb384b81f291323df6883977f_ce843d7b-93c8-44a5-be71-4909f04ca0c9.jpg?1543958255","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/683/thumbnails/9ded1b4f3fcd391dfd65cc622604dd45befd8dcbb384b81f291323df6883977f_ce843d7b-93c8-44a5-be71-4909f04ca0c9.jpg?1543958255","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/economics","title":"Economics"},"team":null},{"id":"ana-martinez","identifier":"ana-martinez","name":"Ana M.","first_name":"Ana","job_title":"Tax Director","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Ana studied law at the University in Bilbao. She then joined an international law firm specialized in the taxation practice in Madrid. A few years later, she became a mum to two adorable twins.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAna\u0026rsquo;s Amazon journey started in 2013 as an international Tax Manager. Five years later, Ana is a Tax Director, currently leading the Tax area for EMEA supporting retail, Third Parties and Operations. \u0026ldquo;One of my worries was that I could miss the dynamism of working for multiple and diverse clients and cases as I was doing in the law firm, but I have never felt bored one day since I moved to Amazon.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her career, her mother has always been a role model and an inspiration. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve been raised with the mind-set of you can make it, there is no limit,\u0026rdquo; she recalls. This attitude helps her on a daily basis: \u0026ldquo;I am passionate about taxation and really enjoy my job. I always had the ambition to move to the next level, communicated it openly. My manager and my husband have been a great support in my career development.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAna moved overseas twice in her career: first in New York and in Luxembourg later on. \u0026ldquo;It might not be for everyone, but there isn\u0026rsquo;t a more enriching learning experience than living in a foreign country. My tips to make the transition smoother is building a network quickly. Networking with parents from my children\u0026rsquo;s school or with neighbours were helpful. I also recommend signing-up to events to meet new people within and outside Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;As a mum the flexibility that I have at Amazon is priceless: I can work from home, remotely or manage my agenda on a flexible way. I may arrive later at work one morning to attend an event of my children and reconnect later from home when it is more convenient for me,\u0026rdquo; she explains. Ana\u0026rsquo;s final advice is that everyone should push himself or herself to be more open-minded. \u0026ldquo;Diversity is what brings new fresh ideas and the best results. Do not limit yourself, make sure you are not establishing barriers communicating or interacting with people. 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She was drawn by the challenge, scale and variety of problems that are there to be solved at Amazon, both in terms of technical complexity or simply the nature of the business. \u0026quot;Some corporations have an innovation department \u0026ndash; at Amazon, that\u0026rsquo;s every team\u0026rsquo;s job,\u0026quot; she says. \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;m never bored and there\u0026rsquo;s always so much to learn.\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Wern love to travel, read, and try new things. 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And I always liked to see the impact of my work on people\u0026rsquo;s lives. I wanted to see the end application and see how people were really using it.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eZeynab\u0026rsquo;s undergraduate degree and her master\u0026rsquo;s were both in computer science, but her PhD was in human speech production \u0026mdash; although her dissertation work leaned heavily on pattern recognition techniques for analysis of MRI images of the vocal tract. 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So we decided to move to the U.S. for the sake of both work and cultural experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eZeynab\u0026rsquo;s husband requested a transfer to Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s Seattle office. With Nuance, Zeynab had been researching ASR systems for automotive use, so she took a job doing similar work for a Bellevue company called VoiceBox Technologies.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBecause cars have unreliable Internet connections, they need to do much of their ASR onboard, instead of in the cloud. At first, Zeynab says, designing for the computational constraints of embedded systems posed technical challenges that she found interesting. But over time, she saw greater appeal in working on cloud-based ASR systems.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a year with VoiceBox, Zeynab moved to Amazon, where she immediately began working on Alexa\u0026rsquo;s whisper mode, which enables Alexa to respond to whispered speech by whispering back.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;It was a brand new feature, so you had to start from scratch,\u0026rdquo; Zeynab says. \u0026ldquo;We had to come up with methods to do data collection, specifications for data collection \u0026mdash; what specs you need in terms of speaker variation and different ways of whispering. And then there was the model building itself. To the best of our knowledge, no one had tried to build a classifier like this for whisper with a neural network, so there was the opportunity to try a few architectures as well. I got to work with many people from other departments and see how a feature becomes live starting from scratch. It was a fantastic experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt IEEE\u0026rsquo;s 2018 conference on Spoken Language Technologies, Zeynab was first author on paper that \u003ca href=\"https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/c0e7798d-32bc-4549-9c24-97d204a7bf3a/whisper-to-alexa-and-she-ll-whisper-back\"\u003eannounced\u003c/a\u003e the technology behind whisper mode to the world. She continues to work on whisper mode \u0026mdash; improving its performance and helping expand it into new languages \u0026mdash; while devoting time to other, new ASR applications as well.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Zeynab says, \u0026ldquo;I have a dog \u0026mdash; a white shepherd \u0026mdash; that is very energetic and needs a lot of walking, so my daily routine includes at least one hour of walking him and playing fetch with him.\u0026rdquo; Indulging the same cultural curiosity that led her to Seattle in the first place, she also enjoys traveling. \u0026ldquo;I like both nature and culture,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;The Amazon, Peru \u0026mdash; Machu Picchu \u0026mdash; and Tanzania have been the highlights in terms of nature. Culturally, I think India is the place that I\u0026rsquo;ve enjoyed most.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/689/images/raeesyzr.jpg?1545165843","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/689/thumbnails/raeesyzr.jpg?1545165844","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"marcel-s","identifier":"marcel-s","name":"Marcel S.","first_name":"Marcel","job_title":"Senior Hardware Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs an electrical engineer at Amazon, I get to build Kindle and Fire devices that make the news! I work directly on the circuit board design and manufacturing for the latest ereaders and tablets. As an electrical engineering lead, I own the logic board design, layout, schematic, and work with our suppliers and factories to bring these products to reality. I also work closely with our device architecture and platform teams to select components and make design decisions for our next generation products.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe most rewarding work I do at Amazon is when we are solving the tough technical problems as a team. I get to spend time working closely with incredibly smart people in our labs, brainstorming, testing, and developing solutions to the complex problems we discover. At Amazon, you are an owner and people expect you to make decisions to keep our projects moving on schedule to deliver great products to our customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI am most proud of being the electrical engineering lead on Kindle Oasis, where I owned the main circuit board design for our most advanced reader to date. It was really cool to give an Oasis to one of my close friends, an avid Kindle reader, who was blown away by how thin and light we managed to make the design.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, I enjoy my hobbies in amateur radio, climbing antenna towers, and enjoying the great outdoors!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/690/images/Marcel_Image-01.jpg?1546468401","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/690/thumbnails/Marcel_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1546468402","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-devices","title":"Amazon Devices"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/san-francisco-bay-area-ca","title":"San Francisco Bay Area, CA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/hardware-development","title":"Hardware Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/lab126","title":"Amazon Lab126"}},{"id":"sandro-s","identifier":"sandro-s","name":"Sandro S.","first_name":"Sandro","job_title":"Senior Program Manager","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:27.35pt;\"\u003eSandro joined Amazon in 2014. He moved from the Italian Army to Amazon because he was looking for new challenges and he knew that Amazon was keen to hire veterans. Since 2014, Sandro has experienced several roles within Amazon Operations: Operations Manager, Site Leader and more recently Program Manager. \u0026ldquo;They all provided different and meaningful challenges,\u0026rdquo; he adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe mission of his team is to make sure that new Fulfillment Centers are launched with everything that is needed to operate successfully. \u0026ldquo;As the Amazon Fulfillment Network is always growing, it is very important that new buildings are fully capable of fulfilling our customers\u0026rsquo; needs, all while providing a safe and satisfactory environment for our Associates,\u0026rdquo; he explains.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;My biggest achievement at Amazon was launching our last-mile service called Amazon Logistics in Italy in 2016. It almost felt like a startup. We had to build a new team and a new business unit from scratch \u0026ndash; with a time challenge attached! The first facility started shipping orders two weeks after building access, with a team composed mostly of new hires.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked about his favorite leadership principle, his immediate answer is Hire and Develop The Best. \u0026ldquo;I enjoy hiring new people and developing employees. In 2016, I had the task of building a team from scratch, which was an interesting challenge. We achieved the goal by committing a relevant amount of time to hiring, for both interviews and candidates management \u0026ndash; all while insisting on the highest standards to make sure that the team was set up for success,\u0026rdquo; he recalls.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSandro\u0026rsquo;s superpower is his ability to make things happen when a project needs to be delivered quickly. \u0026ldquo;A key point to achieve this is being able to assess problems and find alternate solutions when the original ones do not work,\u0026rdquo; he explains.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;What I enjoy the most at Amazon is that, since the company always wants to innovate, change is constant and new processes and business models are constantly introduced. Amazon is a very engaging environment; I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for new challenges, especially for veterans with leadership experience,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;Outside of work, the activity that I like is flying RC airplanes and spending time with my wife and son, preferably outdoors. I also like traveling, both in Italy and abroad; as I live in Northern Italy, I\u0026rsquo;m very fond of mountaineering.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/691/images/sandro_543.jpg?1547131039","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/691/thumbnails/Sandro_300.jpg?1547131039","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/italy","title":"Italy, Europe"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"gabriel-b","identifier":"gabriel-b","name":"Gabriel B. 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He felt energized to work with a team of talented Amazonians who turned the vision into reality.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt was also the opportunity for him to demonstrate his favorite Amazon Leadership Principle ―Bias for action. He explains, \u0026ldquo;I think this is the main reason why we still have a start-up spirit while being one of the largest companies in the world.\u0026rdquo; Carlos likes how Amazonians embed Amazon\u0026rsquo;s values in their everyday work.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCarlos is passionate about inventing. Working with the Alexa team brings opportunities for him to build new solutions to delight Alexa\u0026rsquo;s customers. \u0026ldquo;I learn a lot every single day, from my work and from the many talented and highly motivated people on my team. We are building the future of interaction with the digital world that is voice. We provide a natural interface to make complex things simple. 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Before Amazon, Latoya was a technical product manager at a software company and was looking to bring her software engineering and business skills into an environment that was fast-paced, data driven and customer obsessed. Not only did she find this at Amazon, but she\u0026#39;s been able to build up her skills quickly in the past 4.5 years to manage programs in industry areas she wouldn\u0026rsquo;t normally explore, such as retail pricing and behavioral audience targeting.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e8 months ago, Latoya decided to move to the sponsored advertising team to manage programs that solve for the unique use cases of advertisers in click-based advertising. This move happened after coming back from a 5-month maternity leave where balancing a new home life of an infant and 2-year old with a new team was no walk in the park. Latoya appreciated that her team was supportive in letting her grow, learn and jump in to lead delivering a use case that\u0026rsquo;s never been done before.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a woman in tech, Latoya also enjoys sharing her challenging experiences with others to let them know that it\u0026rsquo;s fun to overcome what seems impossible. She\u0026#39;s been able to do this by leading Girls Who Code summer programs sponsored by Amazon and mentoring other Amazonians. 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As soon as I met some of the Amazon employees during the interviews, I understood it was the right place for me and I decided to begin this amazing experience,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to ensure that all packages arrive at customers\u0026rsquo; door on time and in great conditions. \u0026ldquo;We work for realizing all Amazon promises made to customers and implementing ways for operational improvement,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;My proudest moment at Amazon was during a night shift where I had to generate emergency routes for the first time to make sure all the deliveries were made on that day. I called a Shift Manager from another delivery station to get some recommendations and I immediately applied what I learned. It was a great day, and was made possible thanks to the collaboration and the energy of the entire team,\u0026rdquo; she recalls.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer favorite part about working for Amazon is the innovative mindset. \u0026ldquo;Amazon is a place where you never get bored. There is always something to learn and space for improvement. Amazon is a place where you feel part of something big, where you can apply your ideas, see immediate results and reach great satisfaction in short term. I have worked for Amazon for a short amount of time and I have already been involved in three innovative projects. It is a fast-paced and ever changing environment where you are always challenged to raise the bar and insist on the highest standards,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen asked about her main superpower, her answer was immediate: \u0026ldquo;My keep calm mindset allows me to easily contribute in process improvement, organizational and scheduling activities. I quickly analyze a stressful situation and make fast decisions weighing the pros and cons of each solution.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Silvia likes mountains and related activities. \u0026ldquo;I like climbing the rocks, rafting, canoeing, skiing and trekking.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/710/images/Silvia_S_543.jpg?1550767156","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/710/thumbnails/Silvia_S_300.jpg?1550767156","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/italy","title":"Italy, Europe"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amzl","title":"Amazon Logistics"}},{"id":"amy-n","identifier":"amy-n","name":"Amy N. 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It gave her the opportunity to learn the digital space from the ground up but she was always intrigued by the macro business conversations happening around her, and wanted to be more involved in shaping business strategy. After 4 years at the company and relocating to NYC, Amy was promoted into a Sales Director position at Yahoo focused on fostering client relationships and driving significant ad investments with fortune 500 clients. In 2012, Amy left Yahoo for an opportunity at Amazon Advertising, but across their connected devices products. Her digital ads expertise lent itself to growing Amazon\u0026rsquo;s connected devices ad business across key partners. This was rewarding, the designer in her enjoys developing and building. Amy\u0026rsquo;s most recent role at Amazon is leading the Strategic Fashion Ads Sales team. 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He enjoys work that impacts the community he lives in. \u0026ldquo;Working with Amazon Alexa gives me an opportunity to work on problems of massive scale.\u0026rdquo; And that is why he decided to join his team at Amazon. Apart from working on exciting initiatives, Apratim enjoys being surrounded by really smart people and having direct and immediate impact on the lives of millions of people.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat he really loves about his work at Amazon is the teamwork that goes into conceptualizing and building the software for Alexa. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a great feeling when a feature that you work on reaches your friends and family. I find the fast pace yet organized nature of work at Amazon quite exciting as well.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eApratim\u0026rsquo;s favorite project that he\u0026rsquo;s worked on so far is one where Alexa informs users about new features that they may not be aware of in the music space. 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On this team he gets to create products that entertain people and get things done in their households. As a long time enthusiastic Alexa user, he decided to join Amazon to contribute and make a difference to a product that he loves. At Amazon, he has the opportunity to solve challenging problems. \u0026ldquo;One day you are in a room brainstorming ideas to architect an innovative feature to delight customers and another day you are trying to figure out performance improvements to scale fleets of servers to serve a huge amount of traffic.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Whatever your passion or skill level is, there is a challenging problem for you.\u0026rdquo; Marco\u0026rsquo;s favorite part about his job is designing for scalability and performance to insist on only the highest standards and holding to that. He is grateful that he can do this alongside the smartest people where he learns something new every day by mentoring and being mentored. \u0026ldquo;Amazon really feels like the place for smart engineers that value high standards and ownership.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMost recently, Marco designed and implemented an API to allow third party developers to integrate products with Alexa. He had the opportunity to work with multiple teams to bring the project from inception to production launch. \u0026ldquo;What is compelling is the thorough process that is needed to launch a new service at Amazon where every step from design to implementation is reviewed to ensure the best possible execution and everybody has a high sense of ownership.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Alexa team invents the future every day and takes pride in implementing innovative features, improving existing ones and ensuring operational excellence. \u0026ldquo;If you enjoy being intellectually challenged every day and writing code that makes a huge impact on the life and happiness of millions of people every day, Alexa is the place for you.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Marco is not designing systems and writing code, he loves spending time with his wife and 5-year-old son. 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His team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to make Alexa the best music experience provider. \u0026ldquo;Music can be many different things and it\u0026#39;s Alexa\u0026#39;s job to help users everywhere enjoy the music just the way they want it.\u0026rdquo; Gerardo works with dozens of teams within Alexa because let\u0026#39;s face it, who doesn\u0026#39;t want music in their life?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Moving from Mexico City to Seattle was definitely a change of scenery but working in the most innovative and customer centric company in the world was a no brainer.\u0026rdquo; Upon joining Amazon, he was surprised by the fast moving pace of his team. He witnessed the launch of new features like Music Alarms and at that time he wouldn\u0026#39;t have believed that in couple of months he would be launching a feature on his own, an explicit language filter for music. \u0026quot;Whenever we talk with our leadership about the future of Alexa, we get the feeling that it is just the beginning because there are still so many new experiences to build. Amazon and Alexa are in the perfect spot to really become part of people\u0026#39;s life. I love that my friends and family in Mexico can try the features that my team builds. My dad was extremely happy when I got him his Alexa enabled device. He was even more excited when he talked in Spanish and it understood.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the start in his journey in Amazon, he could see how the leadership principles guided the company. Here at Amazon, it isn\u0026#39;t strange to hear people say something like: \u0026quot;I don\u0026#39;t agree but I\u0026#39;m willing to disagree and commit\u0026quot; or hear a question like: \u0026quot;Is that really the best we can do for our customers?\u0026quot; Customer obsession is the best principle in his opinion. 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I was fascinated as it was the first time a recruiter asked me to imagine myself being in a context of a warehouse where I would have to manage a lot of people and decide how to behave in particular situations. I would never have thought that, a few months later, I would be this person managing a large team of associates,\u0026rdquo; she recalls.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe mission of her team is to work cohesively \u0026nbsp;toward a unique goal: delivering a great service to customers. As a Shift Manager, her main mission is to be responsible for day-to-day operations of a delivery station in the Amazon network. As such, she also needs to work on improving the efficiency of delivery processes and ensuring that customer orders are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively as possible. In her own words: \u0026ldquo;My mission is to let customers know how innovative and amazing Amazon is.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFederica\u0026rsquo;s favorite part about working for Amazon is the pace and the diversity aspects. \u0026ldquo;The pace at which Amazon moves is impressive. It keeps you always motivated. The culture is unique as people have different backgrounds and are always keen to exchange ideas to implement innovative solutions,\u0026rdquo; she explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen asked about her main superpower, her answer is immediate: \u0026ldquo;Keep smiling! Also, keep in mind that everyone you meet has something to teach you.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Federica likes to discover new places where she can taste food from all around the world. \u0026ldquo;I like to try particular cuisines and learn new cooking methods.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/715/images/federica_543.jpg?1550822625","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/715/thumbnails/federica_300.jpg?1550822625","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/milan-italy","title":"Milan, Italy"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amzl","title":"Amazon Logistics"}},{"id":"gillian-r","identifier":"gillian-r","name":"gillian-r","first_name":"gillian-r","job_title":"Manager, Military Programs EU","description":"\u003cp\u003eGillian\u0026#39;s Amazon story started at a Military Hiring Fair at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in the USA even though she was not a US Veteran. \u0026ldquo;When my husband\u0026rsquo;s posting in the US came to an end and he was posted back to the UK, I realized I needed a new job back home. I knew the members of the Amazon Military Recruiting team in the States through my job at Hiring Our Heroes, and they were aware that I was a Veteran and a Military Spouse. They told me that there was a plan to set up a Military Program in the EU. The rest, as they say, is history!\u0026rdquo; Gillian is now supporting Talent Acquisition as a Military Program Manager EMEA with the main mission of hiring Veterans and Military Spouses into Amazon Operations.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her role at Amazon, Gillian is using her management and leadership skills every day. \u0026ldquo;My military training means I am comfortable with ambiguity and that is a good thing here! I also know how to think on my feet and just get things done \u0026ndash; all skills in high demand at Amazon. Amazon is a great place to work as a Veteran. There are a lot of us! In all sorts of different roles. This means there is a ready-made community of like-minded individuals with the same values already there to provide advice, support and guidance whenever you need it,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen asked about her proudest moment at Amazon, her answer is immediate: the Defense Relationship Management Conference. Gillian had the privilege to present in front of 200 employers explaining why she is hiring Veterans and Military Spouses at Amazon, and why it is important for other employers to do so too.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGillian\u0026rsquo;s favorite leadership principle is Customer Obsession. \u0026ldquo;I am truly passionate about making sure that Veterans have rewarding careers after they leave the service of their country and that Military Spouses have access to fulfilling employment that is portable and flexible to deal with the exigencies of Service life.\u0026rdquo; She explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Outside of work, I\u0026rsquo;m currently renovating my apartment in London. 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After her traineeship, Janine joined the Home Entertainment Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) Team as a Brand Specialist. Her role came along with diverse tasks including vendor management (buying), supply chain management and marketing. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m frequently asked what my daily work routine looks like. The honest answer and the good thing about Amazon is, there is no routine. The role as Brand Specialist is very diverse. From the beginning,\u0026nbsp;you have many opportunities\u0026nbsp;to develop and specialize in your role,\u0026rdquo; Janine says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMost recently, Janine joined the Amazon Fresh and Prime Now AVS team as Team lead. She now manages a team of Brand Specialists to deliver value to vendors subscribed to the service. \u0026ldquo;It amazes me that even after three years of working at Amazon, there is still so much more to discover and learn.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her spare time, you will find Janine enjoying the mountains or Munich\u0026rsquo;s restaurants and bars.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/717/images/Janine_Littig_543.jpg?1551797675","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/717/thumbnails/Janine_Littig_300.jpg?1551797675","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/retail","title":"Retail"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/munich-germany","title":"Munich, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/avs","title":"Amazon Vendor Services "}},{"id":"iwd2019-kristin-story","identifier":"iwd2019-kristin-story","name":"Kristin B.","first_name":"Kristin","job_title":"Sr. Marketing Manager, Amazon Fashion, Japan","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWork Hard, Have Fun, Move to Tokyo\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy path to Amazon Japan\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;When it\u0026#39;s tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?\u0026rdquo; This question was delivered by Jeff Bezos to the 2010 graduating class of Princeton University in a speech titled \u0026ldquo;We are What We Choose\u0026rdquo;. The power of choice is a significant and guiding tenet for me, especially in 2018 when I moved to Japan and later joined Amazon Fashion. Choice is a funny thing because it so closely aligns with our sense of self. That is to say, we make choices for ourselves based on what we perceive we are capable of. Our inner voice provides a running verbal monologue of conscious thoughts. \u003cem\u003eC\u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ean I complete my report on time? Will I receive the promotion I\u0026rsquo;ve been working towards? Am I a leader? Do my coworkers respect me? Am I successful? Am I happy? \u003c/em\u003eThe way we answer speaks to our perceived ability to achieve these objectives. For example, \u003cem\u003eam I capable of leadership? \u003c/em\u003eIf the answer is yes, we may choose to ask for a promotion. If the answer is no, we may hold back. The tricky bit is, our perception is ever changing. I have known myself to be a strong, capable and effective leader and later found myself in a moment questioning my ability to lead. What changed? Am I a leader or am I not? More specifically, am I a leader in Japan? To answer this question I would need to examine my sense of self in a new country. This is where my path to Amazon began. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, I learned that despite my profound professional and personal accomplishments, my sense of self was not etched in stone. I departed from a role I loved at an NYC-based investment and holdings firm, and relocated to Japan for my husband\u0026rsquo;s new job, however there was no job waiting for me. This may seem scary to some but generally, I tend to lead with optimism, as in pure, blind, unadulterated optimism. As the saying goes, it\u0026rsquo;s a blessing and a curse. While it enables me to leap towards new and exciting opportunities it can also lead to unanticipated self-doubt and as I experienced, a dilution to my sense of self. After the novelty wore off, living in a new country with a different language, a foreign culture, a lack of social network and no professional purpose left me feeling not quite myself. All of the familiar people and responsibilities that had provided me daily validation were gone. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe good news was, I had time. More time than I had had in years to think of my long-term future and to cultivate a newer, stronger sense of self to get me there. At first, I spent that time defining a criteria for the career I wanted in Japan and contemplating if I could meet that criteria. Here is where the leadership question comes back into play. I began listening to a popular podcast profiling the founders of recent and highly successful start-up companies. I was stunned to learn how indirect and precarious some of their paths to success were. In particular, a female founder, who I only knew as a very successful CEO, started her company with no experience in her industry (and had more than one blooper to show for it). This led me to a very simple but impactful notion: Instead of focusing on my perceived ability or inability to lead, why not focus on \u003cem\u003echoosing \u003c/em\u003eto lead?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, our \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles\"\u003e14 Leadership Principles\u003c/a\u003e are what guide us whether we are individual contributors or leaders of a large team. In my own way I was putting several into practice directly preceding my employment here. The following three interpretations of these principles are what ultimately led me to Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e1). Insist on the Highest Standards \u003cem\u003e(and define them for yourself\u003c/em\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNot long after listening to the podcast I attended a networking event hosted by Amazon on the topic of self-branding. The keynote speaker was the Alexa Japan Country Manager. She began her presentation by stating \u0026ldquo;I am a soft skills expert\u0026rdquo;. As a senior leader for one of the most innovative voice-activated devices on the market I was expecting her to speak to technical skills such as coding and programming, database design and management, and big data analytics. As I listened further I heard an incredible example of someone who was \u003cem\u003echoosing \u003c/em\u003eto lead by the highest standards that she defined for herself. It occurred to me that my own undervalued soft skills had translated into fruitful partnerships and millions of dollars in revenue for my previous employer. I realized I was guilty of taking a narrow view on leadership and immediately my perception shifted, my idea of what it meant to lead broadened and my sense of self grew stronger.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e2). Are Right, A lot (\u003cem\u003eSay Yes, A lot\u003c/em\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWe learn at Amazon that, \u0026ldquo;leaders are right, a lot. They have strong judgement and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs\u0026rdquo;. A big part of redefining my sense of self in Japan was to seek a diverse perspective, to have strong judgment of my own abilities and disconfirm my beliefs of self-doubt. To do this I decided I would\u003cem\u003e Say Yes, A lot. \u003c/em\u003eWhen a new friend in Tokyo invited me to join a weekly workout group with his fellow Marines it sounded absolutely terrifying. I said yes. When my yoga instructor asked me to attend a J-pop concert featuring Pikachu (yes, that Pikachu), I said yes. When my husband said he made dinner reservations at a popular restaurant specializing in horse meat\u0026hellip;well\u0026hellip;I said no. Just kidding, I said yes. And when I was invited to the Amazon self-branding event, I said yes! Every time I said yes, I made a connection. With every new connection my sense of self grew stronger. With a stronger sense of self, I was able to make decisions for my career that \u003cem\u003eare right, a lot.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e3). Think Big (\u003cem\u003eand persevere!)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeadership principle #8 states that, \u0026ldquo;\u0026hellip;leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; But how do you stay the course when your thinking is different from those around you? How do you stay confident in your bold direction amongst those who disagree? When I started thinking big about a career path in Japan I was faced with a language barrier, cultural barrier and lack of diversity in the workplace. A lot of people in Japan and back home said it was unlikely I would find employment. I chose to set a bold direction for myself. I chose to think differently. Amazon recognized this in me.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis brings us to present day. I have lived in Tokyo for a little more than one year and when things were tough I chose to be relentless. When things were uncertain, I chose to think differently. The key is to recognize there is a choice. I recall the phone conversation with my mother when I told her I was moving to Japan. Having already endured my moving across the country she was now bracing herself for me to move across the world. She said \u0026ldquo;Just when I think you\u0026rsquo;ve gone as far as you can, you go further\u0026rdquo;. While her sentiment may have been that I keep moving further away from her and to please come back home, it gave me pause. We can always go further, when we know a choice exists. As Mr. Bezos himself said, \u0026ldquo;In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/720/images/Amazon_Sphere.jpg?1552028031","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/720/thumbnails/Amazon_Sphere.jpg?1552028031","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/retail","title":"Retail"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/tokyo-area-japan","title":"Tokyo, Japan"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/marketing-pr","title":"Marketing \u0026 PR"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fashion","title":"Amazon Fashion"}},{"id":"gil-r","identifier":"gil-r","name":"Gil R. ","first_name":"Gil","job_title":"Manager, Amazon Locker","description":"\u003cp\u003eGil graduated in engineering and developed his career in the telecom industry working in Portugal and New Zealand. In 2016 he joined Amazon in Luxembourg to manage locker operations of UK and France. Having launched the Italian, German and Spanish locker operations in his 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c/sup\u003e year, Gil got the support to build a local team and is currently scaling the business in the EU region. He moved from New Zealand to Luxembourg with his wife and a newborn and were positively impressed with the life quality (coming from New Zealand \u0026ndash; their bar was high!), educational system, health system and multicultural environment that enabled them to quickly integrate. Soon after arriving, Gil\u0026rsquo;s partner was recruited in one of the largest construction businesses in Luxembourg. He likes that English and French languages are spoken by almost everyone, kids will usually know one handful of languages by the age of 10 which will enable an impressive gateway culture and studies at international level. He lives 30minutes driving distance from France, Belgium and Germany, so they have cultural and gastronomic diversity in every corner. They can also take a flight to beach resorts of the Iberia peninsula in less than 3hours.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/721/images/gil-r_543.jpg?1552606806","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/721/thumbnails/gil-r_300.jpg?1552606806","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/luxembourg-city-luxembourg","title":"Luxembourg City, Luxembourg"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":null},{"id":"jake-t","identifier":"jake-t","name":"Jake T. ","first_name":"Jake","job_title":"Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eJake graduated with a degree in economics and joined Amazon as an Area Manager in one of the first robotics FCs. His career in front-line operations took Jake all over the US as Amazon Robotics was rolled-out widely. After 2 peak seasons, he transitioned to the Seattle headquarters and took on a role with a global focus, spending the next 2 years launching AmazonFresh in the United Kingdom and Germany. During his time as a Program Manager, he spent a vast majority time working overseas. As a result, he decided to actively pursue a role in Luxembourg and ended up moving in the spring of 2017. He and his wife\u0026nbsp;thoroughly enjoy\u0026nbsp;the opportunity to be so centrally located within Europe. They live just across the border from Luxembourg, in Trier, Germany. \u0026quot;Having been in Luxembourg for over 2 years now, we\u0026nbsp;still find ourselves amazed at all the things this place and region offers \u0026ndash; great wine, central location which facilitates travel throughout Europe, and overall high-quality of life.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/722/images/Jake_Toon_543.jpg?1552607244","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/722/thumbnails/Jake_Toon300.jpg?1552607244","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/luxembourg-city-luxembourg","title":"Luxembourg City, Luxembourg"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":null},{"id":"kathy-k","identifier":"kathy-k","name":"Kathy K.","first_name":"Kathy","job_title":"Senior Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathy spent many years building and running software teams in the consumer device space, before she and her family decided to embark on a 3-year expatriate adventure abroad (in Shanghai).\u0026nbsp; During that time, she went back to programming which allowed for part-time flexibility with her language studies (Mandarin, not C++!).\u0026nbsp; When she returned to the US, she knew she missed shipping consumer products at scale, and she submitted her resume to Amazon.\u0026nbsp; A former coworker turned Amazonian saw it and gave her a call. She officially joined Amazon as a Senior Software Development Manager in August of 2017.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;My heart\u0026rsquo;s always been in consumer devices. I like building things, so Amazon was an obvious choice.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough since joining Amazon her job title has remained the same, Kathy says that her job has evolved due to Amazon\u0026rsquo;s ever-changing environment. She is currently working on a project to create a software platform that will be reusable across various products. Her role on the team is to structure deliverables, keep an eye out for architectural tenets, and help her team deliver to commitments. She described the team\u0026rsquo;s mission as creating a framework that is efficient and accessible, ideally able to scale to thousands of products.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKathy says that the two leadership principles she uses most frequently are Ownership and Think Big.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;You can think big on a grand scale, but you can also think big on small architectural decisions. Will this help me scale or not? If not, why am I doing it?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKathy believes one of the most unique parts of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture is its customer obsession.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I love that customer-centric view of the world. For such a big company, it\u0026rsquo;s such an infused way of thinking.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/723/images/Kathy-K_Image-01.jpg?1552927830","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/723/thumbnails/Kathy-K_Thumbnail-01.jpg?1552927830","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-devices","title":"Amazon Devices"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/san-francisco-bay-area-ca","title":"San Francisco Bay Area, CA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/device-software","title":"Device Software"}},{"id":"gabriela-c","identifier":"gabriela-c","name":"Gabriela C","first_name":"Gabriela","job_title":" Machine Learning Data Associate ","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabriela joined Amazon as one of the first Data Associates in a newly formed team, helping launch Alexa in Spain. Prior to this role, she studied Psychology at the University of Salamanca and was lucky to be able to return to Romania and join Amazon as a Data Associate, a position that allowed her to practice her language skills.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs one of the first employees in the new Amazon office in Romania, she was trained by a team of Data Associates from Berlin and supported the transition of the processes from Berlin to Bucharest. \u0026ldquo;Working for Amazon and helping with the development of Alexa AI has given me the feeling that the future is happening now and I am part of it. I like my job because keeping up with the latest trends is one of the daily tasks of a Data Associate.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGabriela is passionate about the Amazon culture, especially the Leadership Principles: \u0026ldquo;My favorite leadership principle is Learn and Be Curious because as a Data Associate I learn something new every day. I have always been interested in innovating, so I was thrilled when I found out that I could take the full Six Sigma training within Amazon and improve the quality of the transcription process. I am now looking forward to applying the methodology into my day to day work and gaining the certification.\u0026ldquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeing able to make a difference every day is both motivating and empowering: \u0026ldquo; I was so proud that I got the chance to speak during the Amazon All-Hands meeting about an improvement idea that turned into a project that I currently lead. \u0026lsquo;\u0026lsquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work making sure that the processed data meets the quality requirements of the customers, you can find her on the slopes, perfecting her skiing skills: \u0026ldquo;This year I skied for the first time in my life and I enjoyed the feeling of freedom that it gave me and the breathtaking landscapes.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/724/images/Gabriela_C.jpg?1553552876","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/724/thumbnails/Gabriela_C.jpg?1553552876","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bucharest-romania","title":"Bucharest, Romania"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-data-services","title":"Alexa Data Services"}},{"id":"kat-v","identifier":"kat-v","name":"Kat V. ","first_name":"Kat","job_title":"Language Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537718085959283313609\"\u003eKat\u003c/gwmw\u003e is a Language Engineer on the Alexa Intelligence team. Her team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to help Alexa understand German. They provide technical support for new feature launches by creating speech data in German and building a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) model. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s how Alexa understands the meaning of German utterances,\u0026rdquo; she explains. \u0026ldquo;We make Alexa features actually work; from the technical side to the linguistic side. We seek to make her understand as much \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537718117225353064069\"\u003evariances\u003c/gwmw\u003e as possible, such as different dialects or accents\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Kat\u0026rsquo;s opinion, the Amazon Leadership Principles guide all Amazonians to work together with the same mindset.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;Our Leadership Principles boil down to what is most important for all of us \u0026ndash; delighting our customers. We are all on the same team; we are all working in an efficient and productive way and that is very motivating!\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Leadership Principle that most resonates with Kat is Ownership. She explains she ran an improvement project outside of her \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537718149090530475644\"\u003edaily\u003c/gwmw\u003e job because she knew it was the right thing to do for the Alexa customers. \u0026ldquo;In Germany, radio plays (basically an audio-only scene play) are a big thing. This is one of the core parts of the German culture as it connects Germans across all ages and generations. However, Alexa customers could not enjoy any radio plays on their devices. Because these are so specific to Germany, there was no plan to develop this feature any time soon.\u0026rdquo; Kat and her team took on to make radio plays for Alexa possible and owned the design and the development from end to end.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537718187611934145703\"\u003eKat\u003c/gwmw\u003e deems that Amazon combines the mindset of an agile, fast paced, modern, unconventional and creative \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-2\" id=\"gwmw-15537718187619387366581\"\u003estart-up\u003c/gwmw\u003e with an established company. \u0026ldquo;I have access to all kinds of resources, from data to remarkable people,\u0026rdquo; she continues. \u0026ldquo;This brings along a constant learning.\u0026rdquo; Kat believes that taking advantage of the opportunities broadens her scope, and helps her develop her interests and skills. \u0026ldquo;I have been with the company for three years. I don\u0026rsquo;t think I have reached the limits of the development opportunities Amazon has to offer.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, you may find \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15537718249148531591075\"\u003eKat\u003c/gwmw\u003e indulging in the techno scene in Berlin. She is a travel-lover and she enjoys practicing her photography skills.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/725/images/Kat_V_-_543.jpg?1553771991","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/725/thumbnails/Kat_V_-_300.jpg?1553771991","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/research-science","title":"Research Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"katarzyna-w","identifier":"katarzyna-w","name":"Kasia W.","first_name":"Kasia","job_title":"Process Expert, Dangerous Goods","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith her 10 years of experience in Dangerous Goods, people call Katarzyna a \u0026ldquo;Dangerous Goods Jedi\u0026rdquo;. She is an active member of \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537809934772881613743\"\u003eBritish Association\u003c/gwmw\u003e of Dangerous Goods Professionals and Chartered Institute of Logistic and Transport. In her previous role as a Dangerous Goods Country Manager, she was the first point of contact for ONR (Office for Nuclear Regulation) for Radiation Protection on Air Cargo transport. Before joining Amazon, she used to take care of trade compliance and Dangerous Goods shipments by all \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537809955061966389548\"\u003emode\u003c/gwmw\u003e of transport to almost every destination in the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Subject Matter Expert on the Compliance Operations team, Katarzyna focuses on making sure products in the Amazon \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15537809968981562585608\"\u003ecatalog\u003c/gwmw\u003e are in line with policy, standards and procedures, as well as follow the legal requirements for transportation and storage. As a leader, she ensures her team has mechanisms to audit its processes and is looking for \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15537809979813952915037\"\u003econtinous\u003c/gwmw\u003e improvement. Her proudest moment at Amazon so far was seeing the top scores on the DGSA national test (Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser) of the team members she mentored.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKatarzyna relocated from England to Poland with her wife and her dog, Ulla, a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. Relocating was a big decision in their \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537810007603283459934\"\u003elives but\u003c/gwmw\u003e she explains that the dog policy in the Gdansk office convinced her to accept the Amazon offer. Besides getting to have her dog \u0026lsquo;working\u0026rsquo; with her, Katarzyna found out that working at Amazon meant working in a diverse and family atmosphere.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe admits that Amazon culture stroked her at the first instance. \u0026ldquo;After a year at Amazon, I now \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15537810031961801323761\"\u003euderstand\u003c/gwmw\u003e that our Day One culture means that it is okay to make mistakes. Taking risks as we invent on behalf of our customers is part of the exciting challenge of our role.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKatarzyna has another major interest that takes her mind away from Dangerous Goods \u0026ndash; her passion for helping others. \u0026ldquo;I am involved in actions and projects managed by \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15537810059151566470599\"\u003eDisasterReady\u003c/gwmw\u003e - a nonprofit initiative supported by UNICEF. My last involvement was purely editorial for Disaster and Emergency Planning for Preparedness and Response \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-2\" id=\"gwmw-15537810068133314983244\"\u003etraining\u003c/gwmw\u003e. I am also a member of ActionAid \u0026ndash; helping the Cambodian people learn about sustainable \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15537810074272949278339\"\u003eeco system\u003c/gwmw\u003e.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/726/images/Katarzyna_Wilk_Ulla-543.jpg?1553781194","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/726/thumbnails/Katarzyna_Wilk_Ulla-300.jpg?1553781194","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/gdansk-poland","title":"Gdansk, Poland"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/editorial-writing-content-management","title":"Editorial, Writing, \u0026 Content Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/compliance-operations","title":"Compliance Operations Team"}},{"id":"melanie-n","identifier":"melanie-n","name":"Melanie N.","first_name":"Melanie","job_title":"Research Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Alexa AI team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to deliver a product that allows customers to build Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models fast and \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537827247310303552347\"\u003eefficient\u003c/gwmw\u003e, supported by a user-friendly environment that allows for experimentation. As a Research Scientist, Melanie specifically focuses on the whole customer chain. \u0026ldquo;For every project and task, I like it to work backwards from the customer\u0026rsquo;s needs. I think this is the most important thing to develop a successful product,\u0026rdquo; she explains\u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537827267090387707631\"\u003e.\u003c/gwmw\u003e|\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nCustomer Obsession is the Amazon Leadership Principle that drives Melanie in her daily work. When she first joined as a Language Engineer, the German language was just launched \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537827281790394673081\"\u003eto\u003c/gwmw\u003e production. She was in charge of prioritizing the improvements, based on the early users\u0026rsquo; feedback. \u0026ldquo;I ran a few deep dive analysis on the reported issues and played with the Alexa device myself a lot in order to put myself \u003cgwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15537827316348756506345\"\u003einto\u003c/gwmw\u003e the customer\u0026rsquo;s shoes,\u0026rdquo; she remembers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelanie feels that the Amazon culture empowers her to bring her voice and contribute fully, regardless of her level and her role. She is excited about coming up with innovative ideas that drive the continuous improvement of the team\u0026rsquo;s workflows, and ultimately, delight their customers. \u0026ldquo;I like the diversity of tasks and projects I work on. The cross-communication with the other teams help us improve and drive our goals,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer proudest moment at Amazon so far was helping launch Echo Show in Germany. Her team dived into working on NLU deliverables for the Echo Show right away after the successful launch of Amazon Echo and Echo Dot. \u0026ldquo;We managed to deliver an NLU model in a short period of time and just after the launch in the US.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelanie is an Ultimate Frisbee Player since 2003. She played a few World and European championships as part of the German national team. \u0026ldquo;Playing ultimate means travel the world, meet a bunch of people and get in touch with other cultures on and off the pitch.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/727/images/MNeunerdt_543x543.jpg?1553782787","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/727/thumbnails/Melanie-300.jpg?1553782787","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/research-science","title":"Research Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"sheena-j","identifier":"sheena-j","name":"Sheena J.","first_name":"Sheena","job_title":"Senior UX Designer","description":"\u003cp\u003eSheena J. joined Amazon in 2015 because she was excited to work at a company where Customer Obsession was a driving principle. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m extremely passionate helping people solve problems.\u0026rdquo; Sheena says. \u0026ldquo;Working in People Technology as a UX designer means I have direct access to my Amazonian customers, and a constant stream of feedback to utilize, so that I can improve the tools they use throughout the entire organization. My co-workers are continually innovating, and it\u0026#39;s energizing to work in a group that touches virtually all Amazon employees worldwide.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSheena\u0026rsquo;s People Technology career has allowed her to work with some of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s largest and most complex organizations. \u0026ldquo;These people are some of the most talented people I\u0026rsquo;ve ever met,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve forged great personal friendships during my time here, and professionally, have learned much more than I ever expected. On my team, customer obsession is driven by everyone, regardless of their role, and you see powerful collaboration happening due to this shared ownership. Everyone advocates on behalf of users, teams challenge each other to experiment with big ideas, and drive projects to be awesome.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Sheena enjoys spending time with her friends and family, exploring as much of Vancouver and British Columbia as possible. 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She started her career by building her own business while at university in Turkey. After that, she worked as a consultant for seven years, and then joined a large FMCG company, where she led several businesses across CEEMEA, then Northern Europe. During that time, she relocated to London and had two daughters.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;My husband and I were very lucky to have the full support of our parents when we had kids. They were able to provide full support with childcare initially, and then a contingency plan if childcare fell through, which was so helpful in focusing on my career. In other words, I would not be here if not for their support. I am so grateful!\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNilhan doesn\u0026rsquo;t feel like having children changed her goals or focus, but helped her grow as a person and showed her a better world. 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As a consultant, I could only advise and guide, hoping to influence them to make the right technical decisions.\u0026rdquo; He missed the culture at Amazon, especially the leadership principle, \u0026ldquo;Have a Backbone Disagree and Commit\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe selling point for Mark returning to Amazon was mostly about the kind of work that he would be doing. \u0026ldquo;For software developers, Amazon is the largest stage in the world. I knew that whatever I worked on at Amazon would have to scale to such an enormous degree, be so available that it would push the design limits and most importantly, it will actually be used in production.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMark commented \u0026ldquo;I have to say that I was surprised by how thorough the interview process was and how many interviewers were involved. I could tell afterward that they had all focused on different aspects of who I was, the thought process I used to make decisions and the impact that I had had on my clients. I remember taking note and thinking the next time I interview someone, I want to use some of these questions!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince rejoining Amazon, Mark was pleasantly surprised by Amazon\u0026rsquo;s continued focus on leadership principals. That\u0026rsquo;s what he had been missing! \u0026ldquo;It was so amazing to be technical meetings again that used objective criteria to evaluate potential solutions, and to see engineers recommend solutions that were good for Amazon, even if it was harder for their own team.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;There are many different kinds of people at Amazon in the Principal Engineer role, and each of us has our own unique style. 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While I may not know tomorrow\u0026#39;s challenges, I know I will have the help of quick-learning creative problem solvers. With such people at AWS, what can\u0026#39;t we solve?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#39;ve been dedicated to ensuring more visibility, accuracy, and a smoother process for our sales teams around their special incentives programs. I consider myself an advocate for our sellers and ensure they are fairly recognized for the work they have done.\u0026nbsp;Furthermore, the Specialist team is a relatively young team. As the team has grown to full size, I\u0026#39;ve help lay the groundwork on how the team should engage with other teams within our organization to help scale and drive automation across the organization in support of our sellers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, I like to balance both creative and active pursuits. I spend time creating ceramic pieces, (recently focused on vases and flowerpots) and baking desserts (trying to master the perfect matcha chiffon cake). I also enjoy hiking and camping, both while traveling and locally. I\u0026#39;ve made it up to Everest Base camp at 17,600 ft, but also love and appreciate everything the pacific northwest has to offer, with the Northern Cascades being one of my favorite areas in the entire world!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/750/images/Fiona453.jpg?1559161976","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/750/thumbnails/Fiona300.jpg?1559161976","business_category":null,"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"Terrence-Glover","identifier":"Terrence-Glover","name":"Terrence Glover","first_name":"Terrence","job_title":"Optimization Specialist","description":"\u003cp\u003eI really value the relationships that I build with my sales teams and customers. I\u0026rsquo;m challenged on a daily basis to find out if there are ways to help our sellers and customers find data that will help them make logical decisions for their business. I operate in a data-centric culture, and enjoy the challenge of seeing if I can look at the same set of data or combine different outputs together to see issues in a different light and confirm or disprove our suspicions. It\u0026rsquo;s empowering to see others act on my recommendations and integrate them into their workflows.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI love working with stakeholders to improve processes to help us adapt with our changes to the AWS platform. I spend a good portion of my time outlining templates to help the groups I work directly with integrate the changes to our platform into their workflows. At times I serve as a bridge between cross-functional teams helping the people who develop our very platform understand the B2B process and impacts of their changes and tweak them to make them more customer-centric, and it\u0026rsquo;s great knowing that I\u0026rsquo;ve impacted current and future employees.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work I enjoy traveling and seeing live \u0026nbsp;comics and artists perform with my fianc\u0026eacute;e, watching sports, and using technology to stay connected with my friends and family from home.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/751/images/Terrance453.jpg?1559162332","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/751/thumbnails/Terrance300.jpg?1559162332","business_category":null,"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"sarah-f","identifier":"sarah-f","name":"Sarah F. 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She recently took on a new role in a different team at Amazon.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:27.0pt;\"\u003eAs Key Account Manager, Sarah is now responsible for various merchants who just started with Amazon Pay, and she supports the optimization and innovation of the service. \u0026ldquo;I am able to apply a majority of the skills I acquired as an AVS Brand Specialist in my new team. Mostly, I am benefitting from my understanding of sales strategies and my negotiation competencies. I am excited to further enhance my career at Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:27.0pt;\"\u003eIn her spare time, Sarah enjoys learning all about the Asian cuisine. Additionally, Sarah likes trail running, spending time in the mountains and travelling to new destinations with her dog Kelly.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/752/images/Sarah_Filipiak543.jpg?1559831207","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/752/thumbnails/Sarah_Filipiak300.jpg?1559831208","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/retail","title":"Retail"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/munich-germany","title":"Munich, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/avs","title":"Amazon Vendor Services "}},{"id":"lavinia-p","identifier":"lavinia-p","name":"Lavinia P.","first_name":"Lavinia","job_title":"Machine Learning Data Associate ","description":"\u003cp\u003eLavinia joined Amazon as a French Data Associate in October 2017. Since she was also a proficient German speaker, she took on a new challenge within Amazon, when she became the mentor of the first German Data Associates hired in Bucharest in March 2019. \u0026ldquo;My proudest moment at Amazon is by far the one in which I took on the role of a mentor for the newly formed German team within Alexa Data Services. Having worked for the French team for about one year and a half and being familiar with many processes and workflows, I was excited to share all this knowledge with the newly created team.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs an Amazonian, she gets to work with diverse talent and develop her skills by taking up new projects, from mentorship to branding: \u0026ldquo;Besides the fact that I genuinely enjoy being part of the team that develops Alexa, my favorite part about working at Amazon is that we get to have our voice heard. We are part of a huge community of talented individuals, but each of our opinions matters. Moreover, we have a remarkable collection of online trainings and tools at our disposal that sharpens our thinking, teaches us how to manage a project from start to finish. I think it\u0026rsquo;s amazing that we feel valued and that we put into use our individual sets of skills in order to innovate.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rsquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe likes the Amazon culture, mainly because she feels that her opinions matter: \u0026ldquo;Amazonian culture is unique because employee feedback and individual development are taken very seriously. For example, we have an internal tool that tracks our daily feedback about work and actions are taken afterwards on how to improve.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuring her entire professional path, Lavinia has focused on delivering the highest quality work, while also meeting deadlines. \u0026ldquo;At Amazon I realized this is one of the core Leadership Principles: Insist on the highest standards. Being a mentor for the new hires made me feel extremely proud, because I managed not only to apply this leadership principle to myself, but also to push others to strive for the highest standards.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSo, what\u0026rsquo;s her superpower? Definitely, never backing down from a challenge: \u0026ldquo;During my time at Amazon, I have been offered numerous growth opportunities, from mentoring new hires to delivering trainings for new workflows to my teammates. I believe that new opportunities are chances for continuous improvement, so, so far I have accepted all of them.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/753/images/lavinia.jpg?1559831707","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/753/thumbnails/lavinia.jpg?1559831707","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bucharest-romania","title":"Bucharest, Romania"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/operations-it-support-engineering","title":"Operations, IT, \u0026 Support Engineering"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-data-services","title":"Alexa Data Services"}},{"id":"madalina-v","identifier":"madalina-v","name":"Madalina V.","first_name":"Madalina","job_title":"Machine Learning Data Associate ","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadalina works for Alexa Data Services from the comfort of her home in the picturesque city of Iasi, 400 kilometers away from the Bucharest office. \u0026nbsp;Although she lived and worked in Bucharest for a few years, the opportunity to return to her hometown to spend more time with her family, while still working for Amazon, was one she accepted immediately. She enjoys the flexibility that comes with this role, because it fits with her dynamic schedule: \u0026ldquo;Being able to perform virtually from my living room, whilst also being able to see my little sister growing up is just priceless.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOne of her proudest moments at Amazon was when Alexa enabled devices were released in the Italian market, because she was one of the first people to join the work behind it: \u0026ldquo;My team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to make sure that the Italian version of Alexa properly understands and processes the requests. My role within the team is to ensure that the data meets the quality requirements established by our conventions. It was an awesome experience to be part of the launch of Alexa in Italy, which received a lot of positive feedback from customers.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnother benefit of working at Amazon is that she can speak her mind and her ideas are valued: \u0026ldquo;Whenever I have had an idea, my manager has taken it into consideration and encouraged me to act upon it. This made me feel that my voice was heard and important. I consider Learn and Be Curious the Leadership Principle that I like the most because we encourage learning whatever we want and develop new skills.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Madalina enjoys meditation and expanding her mindfulness about life. This directly relates to her personal superpower, Observation: \u0026ldquo;I like to take a step back and observe what happens. It allows me to identify the possible issues and come up with solutions. 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I joined AWS in July of 2017 and with my team I have delivered outcomes such as: Built strategic acceleration engagement model, delivery mechanisms, and go-to-market strategy; managed C-level executive engagement roadmaps across large/global enterprise customers; orchestrated executive level business cases (data center closures, migrating private cloud to AWS, mass migration, etc.); built and delivered \u0026lsquo;Experience Based Acceleration Workshops\u0026rsquo; - these workshops help customers accelerate cloud adoption by achieving desired outcomes within days vs weeks, such as (a) remove internal roadblocks (b) propel culture change (c) build MVP for \u0026lsquo;future state\u0026rsquo; that includes people + process + technology (MVP landing zone) (d) market AWS within customer org and gain buy-in across all levels. In addition to this I am honored to be the founder of \u0026lsquo;AWS-Women in World Wide Sales\u0026rsquo; team; WiWWS currently runs 7 volunteer based programs targeted to accomplish the following 3 goals: (a) support career development for women (b) recruit top qualified women to AWS and (c) encourage girls to join tech. Prior to joining AWS I was a Technology Portfolio Manager, responsible for managing overall portfolio health + PnL, and for leading a team of engineers, project managers, and PMO analysts, to deliver technology adoption programs to large enterprise customers across UK, USA and Canada.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI consider myself very fortunate to have a super smart and strong mother who helped me discover my passion for technology early on in life; to have had sincere mentors; and to have been on teams with some of the most brilliant people who taught me all that I know today.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI believe life is short - health even shorter - and it all comes down to truly experiencing life vs letting the minutes go by.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/755/images/zehra543.jpg?1560183682","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/755/thumbnails/zehra300.jpg?1560183682","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"Kristine-Pearce","identifier":"Kristine-Pearce","name":"Kristine Pearce","first_name":"Kristine","job_title":"Sr Customer Solutions Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eKristine joined AWS in 2018 as a Customer Solutions Manager (CSMs) for one of the largest life sciences and medical device company in the world.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nPrior to joining AWS, Kristine led several teams in large scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI) implementation and custom systems development projects for companies in utilities, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications, media and entertainment. She also worked for a non-profit consulting organization and helped small and mid size manufacturers in California become more cost efficient. She then moved to the Philippines and in the last 6 years ran IT, Finance and Shared Services for a logistics and warehousing company and led its digital and business transformation and ERP SaaS implementation.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nDespite her varied IT and business operations experience, she found it difficult to relaunch her career in the US - she wanted a role that provided her opportunities to grow but have the flexibility to allow her work life balance. \u0026ldquo;When my husband and I moved back to the US, I wasn\u0026#39;t sure what I wanted to do. I wanted a customer facing role similar to my experience when I worked for a Big 4 consulting firm but did not want to be a consultant that travelled 80-100%. I was very interested in joining Amazon, but did not have prior AWS or cloud infrastructure experience. Fortunately, Amazon not only looks at your technical experience but hires people who can understand and act on its leadership principles. They looked at my experience and saw ownership, bias for action and ability to deal with challenges and ambiguity.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhat is your favorite part of your job? Kristine says, there are many but \u0026ldquo;being part of a great team and having the opportunity to collaborate with our customer on a daily basis and help them innovate with new technologies is #1. One of my favorite projects is helping our customer implement Alexa for Business in a quantitative PCR (qPCR) (a genetic sequencer device), essentially enabling the first voice activated device in the life sciences industry - how awesome is that!\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;Working for AWS is really unique, I work with a lot of really smart people and our technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that I learn something new everyday. It\u0026rsquo;s really motivating to work for a company that encourages you to learn new things and challenge yourself beyond anything you\u0026rsquo;ve done before.\u0026quot;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of work, Kristine mentors girls in tech programs, and continues to support the non-profit organization she started in the Philippines (providing scholarships and promoting education and reading to underprivileged kids). \u0026ldquo;I enjoy both sides of the learning process - learning new things for myself, and teaching and mentoring others. In my own way, I know I can make a difference and this is something that I try to do do at work and within my community.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nKristine earned a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from UCLA and BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCheck out Kristine\u0026#39;s career re-start story\u003c/strong\u003e:\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/news-and-events/kristine-pearce-a-career-re-launch-story\"\u003ehttps://www.anderson.ucla.edu/news-and-events/kristine-pearce-a-career-re-launch-story\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/756/images/Kristine543.jpg?1560183968","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/756/thumbnails/Kristine300.jpg?1560183968","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"Vishal-Kumar","identifier":"Vishal-Kumar","name":"Vishal Kumar","first_name":"Vishal","job_title":"Sr Customer Solutions Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eVishal started his career at Amazon.com in 2016 as a Sr. Technical Program Manager for AmazonSmile. During his time at AmazonSmile, Vishal\u0026rsquo;s proudest moment was driving the UK launch of the Smile platform, allowing UK customers to shop and donate to a charity of their choice.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eVishal then joined AWS late 2017 as a Sr. Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) with the Solutions Architecture team. Vishal\u0026rsquo;s passion for driving change internally was now focused on partnering with AWS customers and supporting them through their Cloud transformation journey. As a CSM, Vishal helps customers define, execute and optimize their technology, business and people transformation. \u0026ldquo;Being able to directly partner with our customers, understand their objectives, solve complex problems and witness the end result is a great feeling. Our customers are doing amazing things in their respective industries, and being able to contribute to that is an awe inspiring moment\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLooking back, one of the biggest surprises for Vishal was the culture of innovation and rapid experimentation. Vishal says \u0026ldquo;Seeing the velocity at which new AWS services are launched to our customers was amazing, but internally, that same innovation and experimentation approach sees the way in which AWS operates constantly being reviewed, optimized, tested and iterated upon.\u0026rdquo; By interacting with a diverse group of Amazonians who are all focused on customer obsession helps solves\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen not working, Vishal enjoys spending time with family and friends, especially when it involves food and travel. He also loves trying new things and he is a keen do-it-yourselfer / tinkerer. \u0026ldquo;Each failed DIY project, regardless of the scars, is a successful lesson\u0026rdquo; Vishal exclaims!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/757/images/vishalk2543.jpg?1560434322","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/757/thumbnails/vishalk2300.jpg?1560434322","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"Brian-Graham ","identifier":"Brian-Graham ","name":"Brian Graham ","first_name":"Brian","job_title":"Customer Solution Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eI serve as the Customer Solutions Manager based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. My mission is to delight our customers by understanding their overall business goals and long term vision around networking, compute, databases, analytics, and ML then working backwards to anticipate their needs ensuring AWS is constantly enabling our\u0026nbsp;customers to leverage our service. To accomplish my mission, I describe and deliver new solutions that help reduce friction and increase AWS service adoption. My day to day consists of interacting with the customer, TPMs, BDs, and other members of the account teams to understand where feature gaps exist, write about those feature gaps and influence other teams to include these features through PFRs or road mapping. I recently helped\u0026nbsp;launch an autonomous vehicle simulation platform that consumes data from a selfdriving vehicle, analyzes the vehicle\u0026#39;s driving and makes recommendations about how the vehicle could have performed better in specific scenarios. This project helps my customer further their autonomous vehicle pursuits and increases safety for autonomous vehicles.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMy proudest moment at AWS has been mentoring incoming CSMs. Amazon\u0026#39;s mentoring culture was something that drew me towards this organization. I always work to \u0026ldquo;be the change I wish to see\u0026rdquo; by mentoring others while also communicating the importance of mentorship and paying it forward. I recently mentored three new CSMs through their check-ride process and feel like a shared partner in their success. My favorite part about working at AWS is the organization\u0026#39;s ability to keep a startup mentality. This framework allows teams to do what\u0026#39;s best for their customer and keeps management overhead to a minimum. Instead of spending all my time with my manager statusing, we discuss my long-term career goals, personal / life goals, and my overall wellbeing. These activities help me feel respected as an individual and not some \u0026ldquo;resource\u0026rdquo; to be disposed of.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside of Amazon I am an avid hiker and camper. I have visited nearly all the national parks in the southwest and have hiked extensively through Zion, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite. The most interesting hike I\u0026#39;ve done is a 6 mile out-and-back trail in the Utah wilderness that ends in a massive lava tube named the subway.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAmazon describes its culture as unique / peculiar, and I didn\u0026#39;t quite understand the meaning of this until I joined and this is one of the hardest aspects of Amazon to describe. Our peculiarity descends from our leadership principles and the fact we live them every day. I\u0026#39;ve seen outspoken Amazonians feel comfortable asking hard questions about diversity and inclusion, challenging the company to do better. I\u0026#39;ve had long discussions around social and philosophical issues new technologies bring about while diving in to the ML models that could help overcome some concerns. People feel comfortable being their authentic selves to work every day and they know others will respect that authenticity. These same authentic people are very serious about holding the Amazon organization accountable to remain authentic. Everyone understands their own responsibility to vocally hold the organization to task without fear of retribution.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMy strongest LP is bias for action. I am known for consistently moving forward in the face of limited information. I assess the gravity of a decision, calculate the risk, and move forward. Having strong bias for action also means I may make decisions that others don\u0026#39;t agree with. This makes me reflect on taking Taekwondo as a teen and learning about indomitable spirit - finding internal strength to pursue a goal earnestly, strenuously, and with endless perseverance. As a new CSM on my account - there wasn\u0026#39;t a framework for how I should implement new mechanisms or what I should prioritize. This was an extremely ambiguous situation that could cause many people to freeze and ask for direction. I began writing every day, writing about my customer, writing about workloads, writing about AWS services. Through my writing exercises I was able to begin describing important technical and business processes my customer is leveraging as and could communicate those processes throughout the organization. In this case, Bias for Action drove me to structure my account and begin delivering work that is relevant to my customer and my account team.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMy super power is to bridge the gap between technology and business. 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His proudest moment at Amazon so far is to have helped launch human being like Text-To-Speech voices that tens of millions of people around the world now use on their Alexa-enabled devices. \u0026ldquo;Our TTS voices are based on Generative Neural Networks that enable Alexa to adapt her speaking style to customer needs, for example, reading news by Alexa Newscaster voice,\u0026rdquo; Daniel explains.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel is a people person, Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Leadership, Principle Hire and Develop the Best, resonates most with him. \u0026ldquo;Amazon is all about the people and that makes it a great place to work; that\u0026rsquo;s why I became a Bar-Raiser. 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Tarang moved to New York City and joined Amazon Ads as a Software Development Manager, and now works in Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Senior Manager of Software Development in SCOT\u0026rsquo;s Forecasting team, Tarang and his team predict the customer demand for every Amazon product sold worldwide to ensure that all Amazon customers are delighted with super-fast shipping.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside work, Tarang\u0026rsquo;s passions are food, live music, endurance events, and more food.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/833/images/Tarang_Mittal_543_x_543-2.jpg?1574711212","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/833/thumbnails/Tarang_Mittal_300_x_300-3.jpg?1574711212","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/newyork","title":"New York Area, NY"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/supply-chain-transportation-management","title":"Supply Chain/Transportation Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/scot","title":"Supply Chain Optimization Technologies"}},{"id":"sarah-r","identifier":"sarah-r","name":"Sarah R","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"Vice President - Global Air","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eSarah Rhoads is Vice President, Amazon Global Air, and is responsible for the vision and leadership of a talented, high-performing team of professionals dedicated to delivering excellence across Amazon\u0026rsquo;s expanding air-haul network that includes Boeing 737 and Boeing 767 aircraft operating out of 35 airports globally. Sarah joined Amazon in May 2011 as an Operations Manager in Lexington, Kentucky. In early 2012, Sarah was promoted to Senior Operations Manager leading teams in Lexington and Columbia, South Carolina before relocating in 2013 to Fort Worth, Texas, to lead the launch of the outbound operation in the largest, robotics-ready facility in Amazon\u0026rsquo;s world-wide network.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eIn June 2014, Sarah transferred to the United Kingdom to become the General Manager of one of the largest operations in the U.K. located in Wales. In January 2016, Sarah relocated to London and assumed the role of Regional Director of Operations, responsible for leading thousands of Amazon employees and fulfillment center operations throughout northwest England and Wales. In April 2017, Sarah returned to the United States and accepted a position that combined her passions for aviation and Amazon operations as the Director of Aviation Operations with Amazon Air based in Seattle. She assumed the role of Director of Amazon Air in September 2017. In December 2018, Sarah was named the \u0026ldquo;Air Cargo Executive of the Year\u0026rdquo; by Air Cargo World, an international air cargo publication. In April 2019, Sarah assumed world-wide responsibility of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s air network as the Director, Amazon Global Air, and was promoted to Vice President in September 2019.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003ePrior to joining Amazon, Sarah served in the U.S. Navy as an F/A-18 E/F fighter pilot, holding qualifications as a designated combat section lead, division lead, functional check flight pilot, and instructor pilot, accumulating over 250 day and night carrier arrested landings on four different aircraft carriers, and executing 37 combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She recently retired from the U.S. Navy after 20 years of combined active and reserve service. Sarah\u0026rsquo;s education includes a Bachelor of Science degree with Merit in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eSarah, originally from Butte, Montana, is an avid downhill skier, world traveler, outdoor enthusiast, and enjoys running 5K/10K races for charity. She is a Tokyo marathon finisher and a single-engine, multi-engine, and instrument-rated pilot.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character:line-break\" /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif;\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\r\ncolor:gray;mso-themecolor:background1;mso-themeshade:128;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/834/images/Sarah_Rhoads_543_x_543-3.jpg?1574712453","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/834/thumbnails/Sarah_Rhoads_300_x_300-4.jpg?1574712453","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/transport","title":"Transportation \u0026 Logistics"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/supply-chain-transportation-management","title":"Supply Chain/Transportation Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/airplanes","title":"Amazon Air"}},{"id":"Katie-Edwards","identifier":"Katie-Edwards","name":"Katie E.","first_name":"Katie","job_title":"Sr. Financial Analyst","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoing from no kids to one is life changing, but going from no kids to two is a whole different level of challenge. Going through the first year being a mom of twins helped Katie gain confidence and accept any kind of challenge with no fear (or sleep!). She is on New Region Strategy and Planning Finance team where she is driving establishing Data Center standard costs for all possible new regions.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a twin mom is an expert in prioritizing things and effectively multitasking such as changing a diaper for one baby, holding and entertaining the other one, and filling the grocery list, Katie is balancing several projects launching new AWS regions in parallel.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFraternal twins are siblings that happen to be born on the same day. Their birthday is where their similarities end. Being a mom of 2 very different people helped Katie to transform this finding to her work space. If you ask your team what drives them crazy, what makes them happy, and how they like to be recognized, you will see how different those answers will be. You will start treating them in a way that will speak to them and help them do their best.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/835/images/KE-543.jpg?1575558910","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/835/thumbnails/KE-300.jpg?1575558910","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":{"path":"/en/teams/finance-aws","title":"Amazon Web Services - Finance"}},{"id":"pedro-perez-alvarez","identifier":"pedro-perez-alvarez","name":"Pedro P.","first_name":"Pedro","job_title":"Finance Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003ePedro is creating the blueprint of a new solution for AWS.\u0026nbsp; One day, he is brainstorming with his business partners on how it could work - talking about use cases, capacity and service levels.\u0026nbsp; Next day, his corporate partners in legal, accounting, treasury, tax, and trade compliance want to get up to speed on what he is proposing, and in return they share their expertise to make the solution better.\u0026nbsp; While wearing different hats, he influences the imprint of the solution.\u0026nbsp; With his partners\u0026rsquo; engagement, he pivots, adjusts, and solves for the challenges.\u0026nbsp; Along the way, he has found supporters and passionate people to work.\u0026nbsp;They ask him - you are a finance manager, but what is it that you do on this project?\u0026nbsp; His answer \u0026ndash; \u0026ldquo;I am the problem solver that keeps this solution moving forward.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/836/images/Pedro-543.jpg?1575644002","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/836/thumbnails/Pedro-300.jpg?1575644002","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":{"path":"/en/teams/finance-aws","title":"Amazon Web Services - Finance"}},{"id":"paavni-r","identifier":"paavni-r","name":"Paavni R","first_name":"Paavni","job_title":"Senior Data Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaavni is a Senior Data Scientist in the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies Experimentation team. Paavni loves to create actionable insights built from diving deep into data. She has a graduate degree in Statistics from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani University (India). Her role in Amazon involves heavy use of concepts from her educational background, which keeps her excited at work.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;My favorite part about working for Amazon is that everyone here is really passionate about what they do and everything here is peculiar,\u0026rdquo; Paavni says. \u0026ldquo;From people\u0026#39;s laptop stickers, to phone tool icons, to sincere belief in leadership principles, and caring about Amazon like their own business, Amazon\u0026#39;s culture is unique.\u0026rdquo; Paavni currently works on a team that focuses on causal inference and answering the question \u0026ldquo;Why?\u0026rdquo; She is motivated by the challenges presented in this area including complexities of supply chain and nuances of Amazon data. \u0026ldquo;My work enables teams at Amazon to test their innovation and quantify its benefit,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;It is gratifying that my work is essential for driving invention at Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Paavni enjoys hiking, travelling, playing board games, and reading. Paavni believes coffee is liquid sunshine in Seattle and has visited almost all the coffee shops in the area.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/837/images/Paavni_543_x_543-1.jpg?1575926132","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/837/thumbnails/Paavni_300_x_300-1.jpg?1575926132","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/data-science","title":"Data Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/scot","title":"Supply Chain Optimization Technologies"}},{"id":"mukund-g","identifier":"mukund-g","name":"Mukund G","first_name":"Mukund","job_title":"Principal Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:AppleSystemUIFont;\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:\r\nAppleSystemUIFont;color:#353535;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:\r\nEN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\"\u003eMukund started at Amazon as a new college hire and over the last 14 years has matured into a Principal Engineer. Mukund says, \u0026ldquo;Looking back on my journey I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn from, associate with, and be mentored by remarkable coworkers, some of the best and brightest engineers in the industry. My growth into a technology leader is in large part due to the innovation-friendly culture at Amazon that encourages people to respectfully debate with well-reasoned and data-backed opinions, ultimately letting the best idea win.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAmazon\u0026rsquo;s leadership principles shape our problem-solving techniques, Mukund explains. \u0026ldquo;Being customer-obsessed and thinking big are ingrained in the fundamental processes we use. My thought process over the years has been sharpened by always working backwards from the customer.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMukund\u0026rsquo;s work has helped Amazon\u0026rsquo;s supply chain network grow from hundreds to a global network of thousands of warehouses. As part of the SCOT (Supply Chain Optimization Technology) organization, his team aggregates supply and demand for the billions of items fulfilled by Amazon and is geared towards the goal of delivering any item to any customer anywhere quickly. His contribution includes solving a class of niche problems outside the domain of mainstream cloud products, enabling global optimization via real-time, low-latency tracking of supply in a dynamic, high-contention global network of asynchronous distributed systems.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMukund believes that innovating and solving the hardest problems is a collaborative activity. He explains, \u0026ldquo;Innovation requires creativity, and creativity requires a respectful and inclusive environment.\u0026rdquo; He is passionate about building a culture where each engineer is respected as a contributor. He recognizes that to be successful you have to surround yourself with and nurture good people. He has adopted a pay-it-forward attitude and devotes time to development of the next generation of leaders that will drive our services into the future, beyond the limits of our current vision. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/838/images/Mukund_Gopalan_543_x_543.jpg?1575926786","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/838/thumbnails/Mukund_Gopalan_300_x_300.jpg?1575926786","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/scot","title":"Supply Chain Optimization Technologies"}},{"id":"jiaji-z","identifier":"jiaji-z","name":"Jiaji Z","first_name":"Jiaji","job_title":"Principal Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Jiaji spent most of his career building large-scale distributed services in a variety of domains including video streaming, mobile games and billing systems. Jiaji joined Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Supply Chain Optimization Technology organization in 2016. \u0026ldquo;I like solving hard problems that bring value to my customers\u0026rdquo;, says Jiaji. He currently works on an integration system that connects Amazon with supply chain partners to automate supply chain operations at scale reliably and securely so that Amazon can deliver a great customer experience.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat keeps Jiaji at Amazon is its\u0026rsquo; bold environment that encourages big thinking. \u0026ldquo;It gives you the space and resources to innovate. We constantly prototype new ideas with our partners to optimize each path from material in our supplier\u0026rsquo;s warehouse to a package siting at the customer\u0026rsquo;s front door,\u0026rdquo; says Jiaji.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePrincipal engineers at Amazon are expected to work outside of their own domains. They make critical technical and business decisions, and provide guidance to smaller teams to help them evolve. \u0026ldquo;I enjoy the opportunity to work in both breadth and depth. I participate in meetings with leadership teams to make strategic business decisions. 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It combined two things I love: Math and Language,\u0026rdquo; says Erin, \u0026ldquo;I had never done any programming before and that one class changed the direction of my life.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, Erin found an environment that would let her grow, both as an engineer and a leader. \u0026quot;Amazon encourages people to try new things: new teams, different roles.\u0026nbsp; I started as an engineer and years later became a manager, and then ultimately moved back to an engineering role,\u0026quot; says Erin. \u0026quot;I enjoy aspects of both roles and appreciate that I haven\u0026#39;t been limited, but instead challenged to grow in multiple ways.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I always want to know the why behind what we are doing. How does it help our customers?\u0026quot; says Erin.\u0026nbsp; She describes Amazon\u0026rsquo;s obsession with customers as the thing that ties it all together for her. \u0026ldquo;I love to find innovative and simple solutions to complex problems, delivering solutions that make our customers happy,\u0026rdquo; explains Erin.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe is currently working in Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) on the team that delivers Amazon\u0026#39;s long-term topline economic forecasts. 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During his educational years, Darren took every opportunity to develop his abilities and use them to create software that provided value for its users. When Darren graduated from college in 2003, he joined Amazon as a Software Support Engineer in the Supply Chain organization.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDarren quickly learned that at Amazon the challenges and opportunities for growth are virtually unlimited.\u0026nbsp; Following his passion to build software that provides value, he soon created the first software system to surface product delivery dates on the Amazon.com website. Darren has continued to innovate as part of the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies organization, but now as a Principal Software Development Engineer. He is enjoying the opportunity to use software and technology to add value at a scale: \u0026ldquo;As Amazon grew as a business, and I as a software developer, I found that many of the experiences we wanted to offer required more than what a single individual or team could accomplish and that I could provide a greater value by leading and empowering those around me to innovate on behalf of our customers.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Working from this perspective he has lead the delivery of technical solutions spanning several organizations, such as the ability for customers to search for products that can be delivered the same day.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDarren is often asked why he\u0026rsquo;s stayed at Amazon for so many years and why he has continued to work in Supply Chain Optimization Technologies. 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As a Principal Product Manager, Sungwoo helps third-party sellers \u0026ndash; mostly small and medium-sized businesses \u0026ndash; deliver products faster to customers and grow their businesses on Amazon by providing tools to better manage their inventory. \u0026ldquo;FBA is a unique space because there is no business like it anywhere in the world at this scale,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;I love learning about optimization, econometrics, and machine learning, from some of the most brilliant people I have met, and applying them in a creative way to help sellers do what they do best \u0026ndash; which is to serve customers.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOutside work, Sungwoo enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters. 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Martyna has built a Diversity training based on DISC (communication styles to develop her team members\u0026rsquo; soft skills. Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness). She created a workshop from scratch and has hosted several sessions. Being a training facilitator on top of her daily tasks has helped her become an inspiring leader, an engaging speaker and a stronger writer.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMartyna feels empowered to be curious, to take on new responsibilities and to extend the scope of her role. She recently took a core role in defining a new process to collect Safety Data Sheets needed in order to review the potentially hazardous goods products in all available languages at scale by focusing on the largest brands and their portfolio. \u0026ldquo;I was the person who figured out how to make it possible,\u0026rdquo; she explains. \u0026ldquo;I designed the process framework, obtained the required permissions, and removed technical obstacles regarding handling large sets of data globally. I worked with very talented and remarkable Amazonians and learned skills I had never thought I would acquire.\u0026rdquo; Her process is being considered to become a global standard across the company.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMartyna\u0026rsquo;s favorite Leadership Principle is Have Backbone, Disagree and Commit. Very recently, Martyna noticed an increase in the Unable To Classify (UTCd) rate. As a consequence, many products were taken down from Amazon market place. This situation yielded an increasing number of claims from vendors and sellers which limited the selection for customers. She conducted a deep dive to identify the root cause. As a result, majority of the UTCd products belonged just to three product groups. After further analysis, it was discovered that only 5% were hazardous goods. This means that 95% of products fell out of CLP scope and should not have been suppressed. She reported the situation and recommended options to solve the issue. \u0026ldquo;I presented my ideas and discussed my solutions with other process experts. Some were more relevant and efficient than mine. I had no problem with committing to the agreed solutions wholly.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is not at work, you may find Martyna laying down Tarot cards. \u0026ldquo;I used to study History of Art before moving into Linguistics. During that time, I became particularly interested in Secession Movement. One of the flag elements of that period of time of Art were Tarot Cards. The most famous artists of that time needed to have a cards deck designed on their own. The moment I saw Alphonse Mucha\u0026rsquo;s deck I decided to learn how to lay them out. I started my actual journey with divination with a deck of Lenormands. Lenormand cards are an alternative system of cartomancy, similar to Tarot but also different in purpose, feeling and structure. 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He now leads a team which helps build advertising relationships with strategic apparel and shoe brands.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSpencer is especially proud to live his authentic self at work every day as an openly gay man.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s important to me that Amazon is committed to diversity and inclusion. I\u0026rsquo;ve never felt a need to hide who I was to be accepted or included at work,\u0026rdquo; he said. 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After working in Data Center Systems for a year and a half, Chap decided to join the Devices Organization. Leveraging his past experiences in AWS, he quickly joined in to hire for the team. Chap\u0026rsquo;s proudest moment at Amazon has been helping to grow the Denver office where to this day he still continues his love of hiring.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I love to see how much we have grown and how I have been a part of that growth\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of hiring, Chap focuses on building relationships between other teams and products to help push each other forward across all Amazon devices.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;With these relationships, we can use one another\u0026rsquo;s momentum to push each other forward\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHis love of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture, his peers and the opportunity to work on the big problems has been Chaps favorite part of working here. He is constantly looking for the next big idea and enjoys finding new challenges within these opportunities.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHis favorite leadership principle is to disagree and commit because a leader is someone who challenges decisions they don\u0026rsquo;t agree with even if it is uncomfortable or goes against a unified common decision. These leaders are important because they help drive change and give a different view to take into consideration. It\u0026rsquo;s easy to follow through on a decision when it goes in your favor, and much harder when the opposing viewpoint wins out.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;To disagree and commit by being passionate on the arguments as well as still being respectful towards one another and excited about the direction you are going in is one of the best feelings\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Chap owns his own distillery! 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Prior to joining Amazon Robotics, Caroline worked in the medical device and aerospace industries as a manufacturing engineer. She found herself drawn to the fast-paced, high-tech world of robotics and she hasn\u0026rsquo;t looked back since.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCaroline works on the Technical Operations team which is responsible for applying Design for X (DFX) principles to transition a wide range of robotic solutions from concept to manufacturable, high quality product. \u0026ldquo;When people ask what the best part of my job is, I always tell them it\u0026rsquo;s my team. They\u0026rsquo;re incredibly supportive, they challenge and coach me, and they bring their best selves to work every day. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t ask for more,\u0026rdquo; Caroline explains. So far she\u0026rsquo;s supported the Hercules and Pegasus robots, their chargers, and the robotic tech vest for our associates. Caroline\u0026rsquo;s team has a wide breadth of touchpoints across the organization collaborating daily between hardware design, supply chain, quality, process engineering, solutions, and deployment.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCaroline\u0026rsquo;s superpower is her grit. Where there is a path forward, Caroline will find it. She persists through challenges with suppliers, internal teams, and schedules all while keeping her customers happy. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m not going to give up just because I\u0026rsquo;ve never done something before. I\u0026rsquo;m going to teach myself, find a mentor, or lean on my team members.\u0026rdquo; Caroline has a unique ability to find and focus on the details that matter. She dives deep into the data and delivers solutions that work for all stakeholders. 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Julie\u0026rsquo;s team enjoys collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams within Amazon Robotics and Worldwide Engineering to innovate solutions designs to solve key challenges that Amazon faces in its Fulfillment supply chain.\u0026nbsp; Julie\u0026rsquo;s proudest moments at Amazon are visiting fulfillment centers that run her teams\u0026rsquo; Amazon Robotics Solutions, and hearing how much the associates like using robotic technology.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJulie\u0026rsquo;s super power is building highly functional, collaborative teams who are empowered to Insist on the Highest Standards in terms of design quality, while knowing what trade-offs are required. It is evident from her teams\u0026rsquo; lighthearted office pranks and practical jokes that they know how to work hard and have fun too! 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With additional responsibilities for privacy and security efforts to establish a data processing clean room.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThere are two quotes (both from Albert Einstein) that have become very meaningful to Tony in his career:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The only source of knowledge is experience.\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; IF you can\u0026rsquo;t explain it simply, you don\u0026rsquo;t understand it well enough.\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003c/ul\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Principal Engineer, Tony has had the opportunity to work on some of the most complex problems in his field, problems that are not often solved without gathering others perspective! 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Speaking about the Amazon Apprenticeship program, Carla says \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m new to Amazon but I\u0026rsquo;ve already had some great experiences shadowing our automation engineers during their daily routines. It\u0026rsquo;s been fantastic and inspiring to work with such experienced and knowledgeable people, and I\u0026rsquo;m excited for what the future has in store.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCarla explains that she was thrilled to be selected for the apprenticeship program. \u0026ldquo;I have to pinch myself sometimes \u0026ndash; it feels like a dream. I love the team here. The opportunity to combine learning and qualifications with the practical work is a big bonus. I\u0026rsquo;m also enjoying the practical side of things. Some of our training sessions are delivered by Siemens and I really enjoy them.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCarla\u0026rsquo;s role at Amazon means she\u0026rsquo;s working in a field that she\u0026rsquo;s aspired to be part of since she was a teenager. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve wanted to work in this industry since I was 15. I can\u0026rsquo;t remember wanting to do anything else. Working in systems engineering with a company like Amazon really is a dream come true for me.\u0026rdquo; Carla\u0026#39;s advice for people considering the program, \u0026ldquo;If this is your thing, then there\u0026rsquo;s no better place to do it. Don\u0026rsquo;t look back, look forward. Put some effort into your application and go for it. You won\u0026rsquo;t regret it, it\u0026rsquo;s very rewarding.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/853/images/Carla545.jpg?1580167484","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/853/thumbnails/Carla300.jpg?1580167485","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/warrington-uk","title":"Warrington, United Kingdom"},"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"nicola-e","identifier":"nicola-e","name":"Nicola","first_name":"Nicola","job_title":"Automation Engineering Apprentice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eNicola started her apprenticeship with Amazon in 2017 and is working towards a qualification to become a Process Automation Engineer after four years of training study with Amazon and Trafford College.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;One of the things I enjoy most about the Amazon Apprenticeship program is that every day is varied\u0026quot; said Nicola. \u0026ldquo;My day usually starts with an update from the RME team. After that, it is mixed between shadowing and helping the automation engineers, working on my own projects, or using the time to gain more knowledge required for the role. The first year of the apprenticeship was residential-based, where we studied full-time at college. The course was really enjoyable and it was great having the opportunity to live with my fellow apprentices. I am now based on-site at Amazon in Bolton. It has been great to meet the team and to put into practice some of the things we learned at college.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eWhen asked about the most important thing she\u0026rsquo;s learned so far, Nicola says, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m going to pick a few things. Getting hired is only the beginning. Every opportunity is a learning opportunity. It\u0026rsquo;s okay to make mistakes and there\u0026rsquo;s no such thing as a silly question.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eNicola\u0026rsquo;s advice for anyone considering the program, \u0026ldquo;Amazon offers lots of opportunities to learn. There is a generous salary and plenty of opportunities to progress. Don\u0026rsquo;t think about applying, just apply! Get your application in early, be honest, be prepared, and show enthusiasm!\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/854/images/Nicola543.jpg?1580169092","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/854/thumbnails/Nicola300.jpg?1580169092","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bolton-uk","title":"Bolton, United Kingdom"},"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"daniel-o","identifier":"daniel-o","name":"Daniel","first_name":"Daniel","job_title":"Mechatronics Apprentice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eDaniel started his apprenticeship with Amazon in 2018 and is working towards a qualification to become a mechatronics technician after four years of training study with Amazon and EEF in Birmingham.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eSpeaking about the Amazon Apprenticeship program, Daniel says, \u0026quot;When I was younger I loved science, particularly biology. Later in my education, I started to develop an interest in electronics and the more I learned, the more I loved it. It was then that I decided that I\u0026rsquo;d like to get a job that involved working in electronics and that naturally led me to this apprenticeship.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eHow is Daniel finding his job at Amazon? \u0026ldquo;My role is really varied, which is great. It\u0026rsquo;s in two main parts \u0026ndash; preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance. On any given day, I can be doing a wide range of jobs including fitting new cameras, checking systems and responding to problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eSpeaking on the most important things he\u0026rsquo;s learned so far, Daniel says, \u0026ldquo;understanding all the processes we have here, and the importance of health and safety. Health and safety are the primary focus of everything we do, and it\u0026rsquo;s the first thought that comes into my mind when I have a new job to do. Health and safety are important for the site and everyone who works here.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eDaniel has advice for people considering applying to the program, \u0026ldquo;Go for it, but really make an effort. If you don\u0026rsquo;t understand something, then ask. We have a great team here. It\u0026rsquo;s a very supportive environment, and we\u0026rsquo;re always doing things we\u0026rsquo;ve never done before. If that sounds like a good fit for you, then apply.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/855/images/Daniel543.jpg?1580170303","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/855/thumbnails/Daniel300.jpg?1580170303","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/swansea-wales","title":"Swansea, Wales"},"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"toba-e","identifier":"toba-e","name":"Toba","first_name":"Toba","job_title":"Operations Apprentice ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eToba started his apprenticeship with Amazon in 2017 and is working towards a qualification to become a team leader after two years of training study with Amazon and the Institute of Leadership and Management.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eWhen he was young, Toba had dreams of becoming a pilot or a doctor. However, as he got older he realised that he had a natural talent for leadership and decided to focus on that path. Describing his people skills, Toba says, \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;ve always been interested in people and think I have good people skills. I want to encourage people to be positive and this, combined with a strong attention to detail, led me to Amazon.\u0026rdquo; \u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;I applied for this apprenticeship because Amazon is a great company, with many opportunities, and I enjoy my role here immensely. I knew that by taking part in the Amazon Apprenticeship program, I\u0026rsquo;d have the opportunity to meet lots of new people and experience new things. I also felt that I could make an impact here, and that\u0026rsquo;s why I applied.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eWhen asked about what he enjoys the most about his apprenticeship, Toba says, \u0026ldquo;the opportunity to work with really intelligent people from different departments is a big plus for me. I\u0026rsquo;m also enjoying the personal and professional development that I\u0026rsquo;m experiencing. I get to study a wide range of subjects in the classroom and that\u0026rsquo;s brilliant for my future career.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eToba explained what he\u0026rsquo;s found to be the most important thing he\u0026rsquo;s learned during his apprenticeship. \u0026ldquo;To respect everyone. Amazon has a really inclusive environment and all of us get along together, regardless of where people are from, their backgrounds, or interests. I think it\u0026rsquo;s so important to be respectful of people and to work together. I\u0026rsquo;ve also learned a big lesson professionally and that\u0026rsquo;s how to solve problems. If something doesn\u0026rsquo;t work first time, you can always try again. That\u0026rsquo;s been a great learning for me.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eToba has advice for anyone interested in applying to the program, \u0026ldquo;I think that an apprenticeship is one of the best things you can do for your personal and professional development. If you want to have a career and develop personally, the Amazon Apprenticeship program is the perfect way to achieve that.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/856/images/Toba543.jpg?1580171554","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/856/thumbnails/Toba300.jpg?1580171554","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/manchester-england","title":"Manchester, England"},"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"luca-s","identifier":"luca-s","name":"Luca","first_name":"Luca","job_title":"Mechatronics Apprentice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eLuca started his apprenticeship with Amazon in September 2017 and is working towards a qualification to become a mechanics and multi-skilled Engineer after four years of training study with Amazon and EEF in Birmingham.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eSpeaking about the Amazon Apprenticeship program, Luca says, \u0026ldquo;Amazon is very innovative and technologically advanced. It offers a wide range of opportunities because of the continuing expansion of the business, and for me, that\u0026rsquo;s really exciting. The qualifications are also great, it\u0026rsquo;s just a fantastic program to be a part of and I\u0026rsquo;m learning lots of different things.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eLuca hasn\u0026#39;t always wanted to be an engineer but his innate curiosity in how things work led him to the program. \u0026quot;My interest grew when I was at college and I decided that an apprenticeship was something I wanted to try. I knew I didn\u0026rsquo;t want to go down the university route. I wanted a hands-on role,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"\u003eWhen asked about the balance between work and learning, he says, \u0026ldquo;I love the balance here. The combination of theory and on-the-job learning at the site in Coventry is great. Also, no two days are the same.\u0026rdquo; He adds, \u0026ldquo;Amazon is a company that encourages its employees to apply for promotions and has many opportunities which is important to me, because I want to develop my career within the company.\u0026rdquo;\u003co:p\u003e\u003c/o:p\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/857/images/Luca543.jpg?1580172687","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/857/thumbnails/Luca300.jpg?1580172687","business_category":null,"location":{"path":"/en/locations/coventry-uk","title":"Coventry, United Kingdom"},"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"saumil-s","identifier":"saumil-s","name":"Saumil S.","first_name":"Saumil","job_title":"Machine Learning Linguist","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:.25in;\"\u003eSaumil is a Linguist on the Alexa AI team in Bangalore that powers the Indian English and Hindi Natural Lang Understanding models. The mission of the team is to build, maintain and continue to enrich the NLU models for Indian English and Hindi.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:.25in;\"\u003eHe began his journey at Amazon in January 2019, prior to which he was working as a journalist with one of the leading media groups. The motivation to join Amazon rose from the interest in machine learning and the idea of machines catering the human requests over voice. He says that the leadership principles at Amazon drive us closer to our goals every day.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:.25in;\"\u003eHe believes that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the face of the world. \u0026ldquo;AI can be a game changer for a significant population across the globe that struggles with some or the other challenge by making their lives simpler. Amazon\u0026rsquo;s obsession for the customers and ethics is making it all the more big,\u0026rdquo; he shared.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:.25in;\"\u003eHe finds his role at Amazon fulfilling as he gets to contribute to the lives of many Alexa users cutting across geographical boundaries. \u0026ldquo;It gives me goosebumps with joy when an initiative I worked on launches, making Alexa smarter. Alexa can help fight loneliness by being an always-on companion\u0026rdquo;, he added.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; When not at work, Saumil can be spotted spending time with pets, exploring fiction and trying good food\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/858/images/Saumil-546.jpg?1580215253","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/858/thumbnails/Saumil-300.jpg?1580215253","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bangalore-india","title":"Bangalore, India"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-ai","title":"Alexa AI"}},{"id":"Anjali-S","identifier":"Anjali-S","name":"Anjali S.","first_name":"Anjali","job_title":"Research Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnjali joined Amazon as a Research Scientist in the Alexa AI team in April 2019. In her previous work life, she was a Research Assistant at the Machine and Language Learning Lab at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru for about a year. She graduated with Honors in CSE from IIIT Hyderabad in 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnjali feels that Alexa is a great place to be, especially in India, if one is looking for a fast paced, high impacting, operations intensive role in the ML + NLP field. The scope of various problems given the intricacies of language in the Indian setting makes working in the Alexa AI exhilarating. 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To work for Alexa has been a professional milestone for her. She began her journey with Amazon in August, 2018, when she joined the Alexa Data Services team in Chennai. In 2019, she moved to Bangalore to be part of the Alexa NLU (Natural Language Understanding) team as a Computational Linguist/ Language Engineer. The move came from the desire to work closely with Alexa AI. She currently works on improving Alexa\u0026rsquo;s language models.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor Thoibi, the journey to being a Language Engineer started with internships that she undertook during her college days. As an intern for an NLP (Natural Language Processing) research company, she worked on various corpus related tasks. She soon grew to love the amalgamated world of linguistics and technology. She started working as a full-time Computational Linguist in 2016.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeing part of Alexa AI has been a journey of self-discovery for Thoibi. She has been able to expand her knowledge, flex her intellect and solve complicated problems for Alexa AI. She considers innovation a part of her day-to-day workflow and understands it to be the key driving force behind Alexa.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Thoibi loves to play table tennis, snooker and badminton. She and her team also engage in competitive foosball during breaks. She likes adventure. She loves to meet new people, try out new food and visit new places. She just started exploring portrait photography. But more than anything else, she loves cats. 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Disagree and Commit」という項目に照らし合わせると、相手の考えに賛成できない場合には敬意をもって異議を唱えることが期待されます。何も言わないのは賛同したのと同じ。だから、たとえ上司と部下であっても日常的に議論が起こりますし、後になって「私は嫌だったんだよね」と文句を言う人はいません。こうした共通の価値観があるので、働いていてとても気が楽です。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e「リーダーシッププリンシプル」とともにAmazonへ入社して特徴的だと感じたのは、「Working Backwards」と呼んでいるお客様の体験を起点に逆算して考え、文書で提案するアプローチです。Amazonでは新しい製品やサービスを開発する際には、お客様の視点にたって、「その企画はお客様にとってどのような利点があるのか」を記した企画書を作成します。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e人事の仕事でも「Working Backwards」のアプローチを活用し新しい取り組みやプロセスがお客様にとって利点はあるのかという視点で議論します。「何が課題で」、「企画を形にすると、どのような利点があるか？」をデータとともにストーリー立てて語れるようになっていなければならない。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e私も頭から汗をかきながら、取り組んでいるところです。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e＜成功体験やエピソード＞\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e組織の変化をステップアップのチャンスに変える。\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e私が担当する部門のひとつで、リーダーの交代がありました。組織が変化する時は何かと問題が起こりやすいですが、逆に言えば大きくステップアップするチャンスでもある。そこで、新リーダーや部門長たちに集まってもらって、これからの組織の目標や課題などについて意見を共有し、建設的なアイデアを出していくための「オフサイトミーティング」（職場から離れた環境で行う非日常の会議）の実施を決めました。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e私はメンバーの組織に対する理解度を数値化して注意深く観察しながら、半年間かけて合計2回のミーティングを開きました。参加者から「こんなに深く話したことは今までなく、初めてこの組織がひとつになったと感じた」というフィードバックを受けた時、やってよかったと心から思えました。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e＜ワークライフバランス＞\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e自分らしい時間の使い方を実践できるのが\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazonの魅力。\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e我が家には3歳と6歳の子どもがいて、私も夫も働いています。子どもが熱を出した時などは、私か夫のどちらかが休みをとっています。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eワークフロムホーム（在宅勤務）は週1回ほど、たとえば海外にいる社員とのミーティングが重なった時など、家で仕事をする方が効率よくこなせる場合に利用しています。入社後に印象的だったのは、私の所属する人事部では、ワークフロムホームをとる時に、その理由をチームメンバーに伝える必要がないこと。「周囲にワークフロムホームをするということをきちんと伝えて、仕事が管理できているのなら、理由は必要ない」と上司から言われました。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazonではワークライフバランスの裁量も大きいので、「こういうライフスタイルを送りたい」など、自分の軸がはっきりしている人にとって心地いい環境だと思います。\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHRBPポジションの詳細については、次の\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/2U3YQHr\"\u003eページ\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/strong\u003eをご覧ください。\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/861/images/Yukiko-Nakategawa.jpg?1580261496","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/861/thumbnails/Yukiko-Nakategawa.jpg?1580261496","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/humanresources","title":"Human Resources "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/tokyo-area-japan","title":"Tokyo, Japan"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/human-resources","title":"Human Resources"},"team":null},{"id":"bouchra-b","identifier":"bouchra-b","name":"Bouchra B.","first_name":"Bouchra","job_title":"Senior Applied Sciences Technical Product Manager","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify; 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Before joining Amazon, Bouchra was a Senior Applied Scientist in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at General Electric and led several programs focused on solving Wind and Energy Industrial Internet Big Data problems. Bouchra received her Ph.D. in ML and AI from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is very active in the research community.\u0026nbsp; She has organized successful panels and workshops, and served as chair, inviting speakers to different technical conferences such as Frontiers of Engineering, NIPS, Big Data, Wind O\u0026amp;M, and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC). \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eCurrently, Bouchra is a Senior Applied Sciences Technical Product Manager on the Machine Learning Applications team in Amazon Robotics. She leads programs in the area of automated-intelligent systems based on ML solutions. At Amazon Robotics, Bouchra enjoys working within multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams with some of the smartest people in the industry. One of the things that attracted Bouchra to Amazon was the opportunity to work on challenges that have a significant impact on Amazon fulfillment centers \u0026ndash; she enjoys seeing her solutions in action.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAs a woman working in technology, Bouchra is passionate about attracting, promoting, and retaining women in computing. She is part of the leadership committee for GHC and has led several initiatives such as mentoring programs, Girls Who Code, and Lego Robotics. Bouchra mentors other women to help them navigate, advance their careers, and achieve work-life balance.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/862/images/Bouchra_B_543_x_543.jpg?1581036372","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/862/thumbnails/Bouchra_B_300_x_300-4.jpg?1581036372","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bostoncambridge-area-ma","title":"Boston/Cambridge Area, MA"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-robotics","title":"Amazon Robotics"}},{"id":"wei-l","identifier":"wei-l","name":"Wei L.","first_name":"Wei","job_title":"Software Development Engineer ","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003eIn 2018, Wei joined the Alexa Voice Service team to work with device makers to build Alexa into their products. The team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to give developers and device makers the tools and resources they need to build new experiences for Alexa, and to make those experiences available to more customers. As a Software Development Engineer, her daily work is to develop software applications that enable Alexa to work on partners\u0026rsquo; products as well as achieve the best customer experience.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003eWei shares, \u0026ldquo;I believe voice interaction and IOT will be a part of everyone\u0026rsquo;s home in the future. 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Since our customers are our internal Alexa service teams, we are trying to surface the kind of data that they need to see to make better infrastructure choices.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003ePrior to Amazon, Ummesalma worked for a relatively small company on the east coast where she began to feel that the work was not challenging enough and there was not much that kept her excited.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;When I received an offer from Amazon I couldn\u0026rsquo;t wait to start and could only imagine all of the new ground-breaking work I could be involved with.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003eUmmesalma\u0026rsquo;s favorite part about working at Amazon is that no two days are the same. There is not one day that she doesn\u0026rsquo;t find herself challenged to improve on something, either a personal aspect, like a technical skill or a soft skill or a work-related aspect, like the way a certain existing service/setup works. She also likes that she has the enablement to challenge and improve existing ways of doing things.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;I find it highly encouraging that we treat our design decisions as two-way doors and are not stuck in the \u0026lsquo;analysis-paralysis\u0026rsquo; mode forever. This type of culture enables people to try new ideas and gives them the freedom to fail - fail fast, recover and keep finding other avenues for success.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003eUmmesalma has fallen in love with the PNW ever since she moved out to Seattle from Fairfax, Virginia. \u0026ldquo;Whenever I can, I am either hiking, camping or backpacking.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/865/images/Ummesalma_543x543-01.jpg?1581624052","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/865/thumbnails/Ummesalma_300x300-01.jpg?1581624052","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"chitra-r","identifier":"chitra-r","name":"Chitra R.","first_name":"Chitra","job_title":"Principal Product Manager","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eChitra came to Amazon in 2016 to join the Supply Chain Optimization organization. After three years, she continues to be inspired by the innovation at Amazon. \u0026ldquo;We are encouraged to think big and take risks -- I continue to be surprised by some of the new ideas or projects being proposed here.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eChitra is helping to develop Amazon\u0026rsquo;s one-day delivery network and she is excited to solve problems with her customer-centric teammates. \u0026ldquo;People here are passionate about what they do, they are hard-working and do what\u0026rsquo;s right for the customer. They are deeply involved and fascinated by what they can and do achieve, and because of that, they give more of themselves to the problem.\u0026rdquo; That mentality motivates her at work every day.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eWhen not at work, she enjoys hiking in the summer or is knee deep in snow activities in the winters. \u0026ldquo;Living in the Pacific NW, we get the best of proximity to water and the mountains. What\u0026rsquo;s not to like?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/866/images/Chitra_Ram_543_x_543.jpg?1582239888","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/866/thumbnails/Chitra_Ram_300_x_300.jpg?1582239888","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/scot","title":"Supply Chain Optimization Technologies"}},{"id":"sean-m","identifier":"sean-m","name":"Sean M.","first_name":"Sean","job_title":"Sr.Industry Specialist Privacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSean has a passion for everything privacy. As a Senior Industry Specialist, he helps build scalable processes and solutions for the Digital Privacy team to ensure they meet customers\u0026rsquo; expectations when it comes to privacy. The team is responsible for delivering trusted experiences on Amazon devices and services such as Amazon Echo, Fire TV and Fire Tablets.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince he joined Amazon, Sean\u0026rsquo;s proudest moment so far is a recent project he drove. The goal was to compile data from multiple complex sources into a single format that could then be used for teams\u0026rsquo; reporting and analytics. \u0026ldquo;It was really gratifying that an internal development team was able to use my work to ingest the compiled data into a new internal tool. I help them shorten their delivery to internal customers by several months,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a natural learner, Sean is excited about the numerous learning opportunities Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture has to offer. He is amazed at how so many groups within Amazon are working on so many innovations, all striving to not only make customers\u0026rsquo; experiences constantly better, but also delight them with experiences that they may not even know they really want. Never shying away from a learning opportunity, Sean\u0026rsquo;s objective in the next year is to better understand how data scientists are able to generate insights and how leadership uses those insights to drive smarter decisions.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePretty much every job at Amazon has challenges. Working in privacy means that there\u0026rsquo;s no simple roadmap to follow. Because the privacy space is ever changing and evolving every day, Sean quickly learned how to come up with his own roadmap while keeping up with changing expectations, norms, and regulations. \u0026ldquo;At a company the size of Amazon, that\u0026rsquo;s kind of like changing the structure of a wing on a plane while it\u0026rsquo;s full of passengers and is flying at 35,000 feet,\u0026rdquo; he explains. To be successful in this role, Sean highly recommends embracing this ambiguity.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTaking an integrated approach to problem solving works well for him\u0026mdash;he reads, talks with people, listens, takes time to think, and then assimilates the information to create actionable plans that deliver value. \u0026ldquo;I generally trust my instincts but also validate my approach by continuously asking for feedback and getting buy in from all parts of the organization,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazonians are expected to be scrappy and resourceful. As someone naturally curious, Sean likes to play around with the internal tools and systems, understand how they can better work together and find new ways to automatize his and his team\u0026rsquo;s work. \u0026ldquo;You can get really creative with the solutions you come up with.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSean\u0026rsquo;s favorite thing to say to Alexa? \u0026ldquo;Alexa, ask Samuel L. Jackson the weather.\u0026rdquo; He is hoping for more celebrities\u0026rsquo; voices soon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/867/images/Sean-543.jpg?1582725725","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/867/thumbnails/Sean-300.jpg?1582725725","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-devices","title":"Amazon Devices"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/device-software","title":"Device Software"}},{"id":"prasad-a","identifier":"prasad-a","name":"Prasad A.","first_name":"Prasad","job_title":"Senior Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003ePrasad joined the Alexa organization in 2016 as one of the first members of the Alexa Smart Home Cameras team. The team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to help customers keep their homes safe and secure in a smart way by giving them all of the necessary tools.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003ePrasad shares, \u0026ldquo;I love to build large scale products which can be used by millions of customers every day and also provide opportunities for me to grow my skills personally.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eBeing one of the senior members of the team, Prasad has the opportunity to lead projects where ideas are converted into designs and then delivered to our customers. \u0026ldquo;I work on features which make Alexa smarter every day, like proactively alerting customers when a person is detected at their front door, or giving parents peace of mind by notifying them that their kids arrived home safe after school,\u0026rdquo; says Prasad. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003ePrasad joined Amazon after looking for a role that provided opportunity to solve complex problems and also allowed him to grow not just his technical skills but also his soft skills. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s always a Day 1 here. I get opportunities to grow my skills every day and work on project that are aligned with my career growth. I also work on products for which I am not only a developer but also a customer.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003ePrasad also explains, \u0026ldquo;At Amazon it feels safe to experiment and fail. It encourages people to take the learnings from the experiment instead of having the fear of failure.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eOutside work, Prasad loves reading (books \u0026amp; blogs for most part), watching movies (huge fan of Marvel!), catching up with family \u0026amp; friends in India, playing tennis, and experimenting in the Kitchen. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/868/images/Prasad_543x543-01.jpg?1582745464","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/868/thumbnails/Prasad_300x300-01.jpg?1582745464","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-smart-home-cameras","title":"Alexa Smart Home Cameras"}},{"id":"prabha-s","identifier":"prabha-s","name":"Prabha S.","first_name":"Prabha","job_title":"Technical Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrabha first joined Amazon as a Data Engineer and charted her own path to a Technical Program Manager (TPM) role, supporting various teams such as Fire Tablets and Alexa She joined the Digital Security team to help determine and drive privacy solutions that build trust in Amazon devices, working closely with legal, service, and product teams In other words, she helps ensure that Amazon products are designed, operated, maintained and protected in accordance to customer privacy expectations and Amazon internal policies \u0026amp; standards. \u0026ldquo;We are the team chartered to safeguard customers\u0026rsquo; privacy and security across all devices and software services,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOne of her proudest moments at Amazon was working with the EU teams to understand what it means for Amazon devices to be GDPR compliant. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a EU regulation on data protection and privacy for all individuals. Prabha helped facilitate the \u0026lsquo;opt-out feature\u0026rsquo; in Amazon devices settings, where customers can choose to opt out of certain marketing and analytic activity. \u0026ldquo;I was able to leverage my analytical and data engineering skills to understand the different pipelines and workflows by which various software services fetched, processed and stored customer data,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe also built a mechanism to process and execute customers\u0026rsquo; requests of their personal information via Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) forms. Working on GDPR compliance gave her the opportunity to work cross-functionally across various product families (devices and software organizations) and was instrumental in her career move to the Digital Security team.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon\u0026rsquo;s culture gave Prabha learning opportunities to accelerate her growth. She has a background in Chemical Engineering but taught herself to code, which led her to interview with Amazon for a Data Engineer role. She then took on TPM responsibilities. She explains, \u0026ldquo;I wanted to get into Management and drive initiatives. As a Data Engineer, apart from coding, I enjoyed coordinating with other teams, sharing meeting minutes, following-up on deliverables, diving deep on architecture, summarizing updates etc\u0026hellip; \u0026ndash; traits that are important for a TPM. That\u0026rsquo;s how I transitioned to my current role.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLearn and Be Curious and Dealing with Ambiguity are the two main Amazon Leadership Principles that Prabha leveraged to be successful in her career moves. Embracing ambiguity taught her to seek answers to a lot of questions. Most importantly, she learned that the way questions are articulated is key. \u0026ldquo;Instead of asking how this can be done, I always present options and ask: Can we do A, B or C to achieve this?\u0026rdquo; she explains. Presenting her options in a written document is also a soft skill Prabha has been practicing throughout her career at Amazon. \u0026ldquo;The purpose of writing a narrative is to define and describe clearly the details of a strategy, problem, solution, or initiative. From funding ideas to implementation, narratives are integral to the decision-making process at Amazon,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnother thing Prabha has learned about Amazon? That the company\u0026rsquo;s dress code is casual and that Amazonians can bring their dogs to work. \u0026ldquo;Having been to school on the East Coast (Uconn \u0026ndash; Go Huskies!), companies there are more formal and people wear business attires to work. When I flew down to Interview with Amazon in Seattle, I fell in love with the peculiar work culture \u0026ndash; cool/tall buildings, colorful workspaces, inclusive posters, comfortable jeans and cute dogs.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/869/images/Prabha-543.jpg?1582806331","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/869/thumbnails/Prabha-300.jpg?1582806331","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-devices","title":"Amazon Devices"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/sunnyvale-california","title":"Sunnyvale, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/device-software","title":"Device Software"}},{"id":"ani-d","identifier":"ani-d","name":"Ani D.","first_name":"Ani","job_title":"Senior Technical Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eAni joined Amazon to learn what it means to be customer-obsessed, how to work backwards from customers, challenge assumptions, and use data to innovate on their behalf.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe started her career as a Quality Assurance Engineer on the Kindle team. There she delivered a feature that delights Kindle customers and makes their lives easier \u0026ndash; \u0026nbsp;continuous scrolling. Customers can read their Kindle e-books in a vertical reading mode with a single hand, using the familiar scroll up/down gestures that they are used to when they browse web content, navigate social media and read emails on their mobile devices. \u0026ldquo;Working on that feature is my proudest moment at Amazon. It has transformed the way our customers consume their Kindle e-books,\u0026rdquo; Ani says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWanting to explore new opportunities and grow her career, Ani moved to a Technical Program Manager (TPM) role within the Alexa team. The scope and scale of the projects she worked on empowered her to learn new things, experiment, and fail fast. \u0026ldquo;You have a voice here and every Amazonians are encouraged to use it, that\u0026rsquo;s my favorite part of working for Amazon,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAni now supports the Alexa Excellence team and drives programs to increase the stability and overall performance of all Alexa customer experiences. As a Senior TPM, she works across several products that are critical for the development, the testing, the debugging, the release and the maintenance of any given Alexa feature. Earn trust is the Leadership Principle that she leverages the most to be successful in a role. \u0026ldquo;As a TPM, I need to deliver project goals without directly managing resources. Helping my team focus on delivering critical goals for my customers is the most exhilarating part of my job,\u0026rdquo; she explains. Her ability to build long term relationship with her immediate team, stakeholders, customers and her leadership allows her to drive positive changes, and be an advocate for others.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmazon is known for its document writing culture. If anyone has a great idea and is able to present a good case for it, we\u0026rsquo;ll move it forward. All they need to do is write a narrative. \u0026ldquo;As a company, it allows anyone regardless of their role and/or tenure to present an idea and bring it up with their leadership. This is pretty powerful way to express your idea and turn it around into something concrete!\u0026rdquo; Ani exclaims.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Amazon may be less known for are its \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/diversity-and-inclusion/affinity-groups\"\u003eaffinity groups\u003c/a\u003e. They are voluntary, employee-led groups designed to foster diversity and inclusion and to strengthen networking and community participation. Ani says, \u0026ldquo;This is the part of Amazon I value a lot. It helps me to grow professionally and as an individual every single day.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAni participates in technical conferences across the industry. She has been a speaker at \u003ca href=\"https://act-w.org/\"\u003eACT-W \u003c/a\u003eBoston chapter in 2017, ACT-W Phoenix National chapter in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/finding-inspiration-at-amazon-and-at-the-grace-hopper-celebration-conference\"\u003eGrace Hopper\u003c/a\u003e in 2019. \u0026ldquo;It feels good to be a part of the company that promotes your career and values your work,\u0026rdquo; she adds.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Ani is an avid hiker. She loves outdoors and finds any opportunity to hike, snowshoe, camp, and backpack with her family anywhere she travels in the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/870/images/Ani-543.jpg?1583142278","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/870/thumbnails/Ani-300.jpg?1583142278","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-speech","title":"Alexa Speech"}},{"id":"ushma-b","identifier":"ushma-b","name":"Ushma B.","first_name":"Ushma","job_title":"Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eUshma joined Amazon in May 2017 as part of Amazon Prime team. She was attracted to working for Amazon because she was able to bring her unique software engineering capabilities into an environment that is fast paced, data driven and customer obsessed. As part of her professional development, Ushma has been able to work on complex problems, derive solutions and be part of numerous launches and thus create a substantial global impact. Being part of Amazon Prime, where software engineering innovations touch millions of customers, motivates Ushma to constantly deliver results. She is proud to work on improving the customer\u0026rsquo;s journey through Prime by optimizing on the benefits, delivery options, prices, plans and ensuring the best experience is available to the customer. She believes customer obsession is at the core of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s success -- engineers start with the customer and work backwards.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUshma\u0026rsquo;s favorite part of working at Amazon is that each day brings an opportunity to be challenged, improve on something, make smart decisions, innovate and invent. She believes that being able to work on something new each day and being surrounded by smart people from diverse cultural backgrounds who bring innovative ideas is a part of Amazon culture, which makes it a unique place to work. Ushma likes being part of the team where monthly team building activities are encouraged to foster growth, improve productivity and increase collaboration.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with work, Ushma has fallen in love with the enormous landscapes, crystal clear lakes, lush dense forests that Washington has to offer and enjoys taking trips to different locations.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/871/images/Ushma_Bhatt_543_x_543.jpg?1583260966","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/871/thumbnails/Ushma_Bhatt_300_x_300-4.jpg?1583260966","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-prime","title":"Amazon Prime"}},{"id":"fernanda-m","identifier":"fernanda-m","name":"Fernanda M.","first_name":"Fernanda","job_title":"Senior Manager - Partner Acquisition Marketing","description":"\u003cp\u003eFernanda is a builder at heart and has always been drawn to roles and projects that launch and grow adoption of innovative solutions that make customers\u0026rsquo; lives easier, better or more fun.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThroughout her career, Fernanda designed and led go-to-market strategies for various products and services ranging from champagne served over ice to mobile wallets.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;I really love working backwards from customers to launch products that are exactly what they need. I enjoy diving deep to understand their motivations and how they will engage with the product or service and then building a strategy and teams to deliver it,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHaving spent over a decade of her career in financial services and fintech, Fernanda was surprised and immediately interested when she learned out about a leadership role in logistics. \u0026ldquo;I had no experience in logistics, but was excited at the prospect of being a part the Delivery Service Program, which helps individuals start their own delivery company and make a positive impact in their community.\u0026rdquo; said Fernanda. She also added \u0026ldquo;It was refreshing to see how Amazon approaches hiring \u0026ndash; if you have the right skills and exhibit leadership behaviors, you have the opportunity to find the perfect role to expand your experience and learn.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFernanda leads Partner Acquisition Marketing for the Delivery Service Partner program in North America. Aside from building a talented marketing team and working cross-functionally within Last Mile, her favorite part of the job is seeing newly created small business owners thrive as Delivery Service Partners.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Fernanda enjoys spending time in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York with her husband and two sons - who are expert skiers at the young ages of 4 and 6 - and creating new vegetarian recipes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/872/images/Fernanda_Murphy_543_x_543.jpg?1583267637","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/872/thumbnails/Fernanda_Murphy_300_x_300-4.jpg?1583267637","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/transport","title":"Transportation \u0026 Logistics"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/newyork","title":"New York Area, NY"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/marketing-pr","title":"Marketing \u0026 PR"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/last-mile","title":"Last Mile"}},{"id":"christina-b","identifier":"christina-b","name":"Christy B.","first_name":"Christy","job_title":"Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eChristy started her career at Amazon in 2005 as a Software Development Engineer after graduating from Rice University. She was inspired by the people she met during the interview process -- how connected and focused they were on the customer experience. Nearly 15 years later, she still lists that as her favorite part of Amazon: \u0026ldquo;There are two things I really love about this work \u0026ndash; the first is that I work with awesome people who love the product we are building as much as I do. And the second is that I can meet people anywhere, and their reactions to the name Amazon tell me that we aren\u0026rsquo;t just saying we are Customer Obsessed \u0026ndash; we\u0026rsquo;re getting it right.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAt Amazon, Christy found an environment where both her technical skills and her ability to work with others helped her succeed, and in 2013 she switched over to managing a team of engineers. \u0026ldquo;I was doing a lot of mentoring at the time\u0026rdquo; she says \u0026ldquo;And I realized that the best way I could help those around me grow, was to take that next step into management. It was a very people-oriented decision.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; She adds \u0026ldquo;It was a scary step to take, but one of the best decisions I\u0026rsquo;ve made\u0026rdquo;. As a manager, she loves using goals as a vehicle to discuss career growth for her employees \u0026ndash; whether that means getting promoted, or trying out a new role as she once did.\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eChristy currently leads the Your Orders teams, which own the pages related to finding, viewing, and editing orders on Amazon.com. She shared, \u0026ldquo;Your Orders is the intersection of everything that makes it fun to work at a tech company \u0026ndash;a product that almost everyone you meet uses, high business impact, technical scale and a highly collaborative team.\u0026rdquo; \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eOutside of work, Christy loves spending time with her family, volunteering as a dog trainer at the local humane society, hiking, and reading.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/873/images/Christy_-_Sizing_Template_543_x_543.jpg?1583269275","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/873/thumbnails/Christy_-_Sizing_Template_300_x_300-4.jpg?1583269275","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amdt","title":"Amazon Delivery Technology"}},{"id":"beth-c","identifier":"beth-c","name":"Beth C. ","first_name":"Beth","job_title":"Senior Program Manager - Military Spouse Programs","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eBeth recently started her journey with Amazon when a year-long passion collided with a professional opportunity of a lifetime.\u0026nbsp; An Army spouse, Beth has been working to improve employment opportunities for military spouses since an overseas move in 2013 forced her to quit her job, putting both her professional development and family stability at risk. Initially, Beth started working on the unemployment crisis for military spouse alone from Germany. She then took her campaign to build awareness and solutions to Capitol Hill and the non-profit community. Now at Amazon, Beth is working to connect this untapped talent pool to the workforce inside Amazon as well as build strategic partnerships that will elevate the impacts this group has and ultimately end the recession our military spouses face. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eThe culture at Amazon is a natural fit for military connected individuals and was an immediate draw for Beth. Like most military spouses, Beth has a bias for action. Army life has a constant element of the unknown. It\u0026rsquo;s in her nature to make immediate connections and impacts, so when the unknown is suddenly known, she can navigate successfully.\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eThe adventures of Army life have allowed Beth to live on 3 continents, 2 islands, in one of the largest cities in the world and some of the smallest towns in America. Through it all she has developed a love for travel, culture, food, and fitness. Thanks to her work in the employment space she has a new appreciation for economics and international business.\u0026nbsp; \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eWhen not working, you can find Beth with her husband and dog diving into their new home town, exploring their new fitness community, cooking, or planning their next adventure. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/874/images/Beth_Conlin_543_x_543.jpg?1583270420","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/874/thumbnails/Beth_Conlin_300_x_300-4.jpg?1583270421","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/humanresources","title":"Human Resources "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/virtual-locations","title":"Virtual Locations, Virtual Location"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-non-tech","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/talent-acquisition","title":"Talent Acquisition"}},{"id":"rebecca-p","identifier":"rebecca-p","name":"Rebecca P.","first_name":"Rebecca","job_title":"Senior Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eRebecca joined Amazon as a Software Development Engineer in 2016 to open a new development center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She launched the Relay mobile app for truck drivers which helps them navigate their day when hauling loads into and out of Amazon facilities. Working on a cross-functional and customer-obsessed team, Rebecca found that Operations Technology was a great place to innovate and have a measurable effect on safety and on-time delivery. Recently she moved to a new team that is building on top of foundational transportation technology.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eWhen asked what she likes most about working for Amazon, Rebecca says it\u0026rsquo;s the Think Big ambition that creates opportunities to grow her career with the growth of the company. She is continually inspired by the scrappy resourcefulness at the core of the culture and the inventive, highly motivated doers found in every role. Rebecca found that many of the problems thrown at her were thorny, complicated, and ambiguous \u0026ndash; and she\u0026rsquo;s thrived in an environment that rewards creative problem solving and delivering value for customers.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eOutside of work, Rebecca spends time with her husband, 5 year old daughter, and two miniature schnauzers. She likes to cook, read, travel, and stay up-to-date on celebrity gossip. While she is normally a decisive problem solver, decorating her house is a challenge that continues to baffle her left-brained engineer mind.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/875/images/Rebecca_Peterson_543_x_543.jpg?1583275995","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/875/thumbnails/Rebecca_Peterson_300_x_300-4.jpg?1583275995","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/minneapolis-mn","title":"Minneapolis, MN"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amdt","title":"Amazon Delivery Technology"}},{"id":"mindy-e","identifier":"mindy-e","name":"Mindy E.","first_name":"Mindy","job_title":"Site Leader","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAfter starting her career in a small warehouse for a window coverings manufacturer, Mindy spent ten years working in sales management before joining Amazon. During this time she learned about lean processes. She found joy in solving problems and building teams. Amazon provided an environment where she could do both and embrace new challenges along the way.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eMindy is the first female Amazon Robotics Site Leader in Florida, where her building employs over 1,500 full-time employees. The Amazon Robotics sites are critical in fulfilling millions of customer\u0026rsquo;s orders. Her customer obsessed teams are always on the lookout for new processes and innovations that might get those packages out even faster. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eGiven Mindy\u0026rsquo;s humble beginnings and after losing her daughter to childhood cancer, she knew she could help others overcome challenges as well. Supporting multiple Women@Amazon chapters and the Amazon Goes Gold efforts, Mindy enjoys mentoring Amazonians and supporting community outreach. \u0026ldquo;I have found a family here at Amazon\u0026rdquo; Mindy says and it is her internal commitment to continue to create that same environment for other Amazonians as well. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eIn her free time outside of work, Mindy loves to spend time with her husband and two children enjoying sandy beaches. Mindy heavily supports Childhood Cancer initiatives and organizations. She can often be found while at home refinishing furniture or hanging out with the family\u0026rsquo;s two Dachshunds, Chimichanga and Chorizo.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/876/images/Mindy_E_2_543_x_543.jpg?1583284691","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/876/thumbnails/Mindy_E_300_x_300-4.jpg?1583284564","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/tampa-area-florida","title":"Tampa Area, Florida"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/fulfillment-center-management","title":"Fulfillment Center Management"}},{"id":"dolly-j","identifier":"dolly-j","name":"Dolly J.","first_name":"Dolly","job_title":"Senior Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eDolly has been at Amazon for the past five years and has been a part of various Amazon device launches including Fire TV, Fire\u0026nbsp;\u003ca\u003eTablets\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:8.0pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e, and Echo devices. One of her proudest moments was her contribution to the Fire TV Recast product where she helped build it from the ground up and added Alexa Live TV features as part of the launch. She enjoyed the Alexa feature development so much that in June 2019, she joined the Alexa Smart Home Cameras team as head of the engineering team.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eThe Alexa Smart Home Cameras team\u0026rsquo;s vision is to build voice-forward experiences that\u0026nbsp;simplify interaction with smart home appliances (camera devices).\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I love building products for our customers that make their life easier while creating new experiences. My role is to be a coach, to provide guidance and resources to unblock my team in building these products and experiences.\u0026rdquo; Dolly really enjoys the direct measurable impact she is able to make through our products for our customers.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:1.0in; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"CxSpMiddle\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eDolly\u0026rsquo;s favorite part of the Amazon culture is that, \u0026ldquo;Amazon believes in making long-term bets and that it is okay to fail. In fact, it is better to fail-fast and build through iteration to find the right answer. 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Her team\u0026rsquo;s vision is to build voice-forward experiences that\u0026nbsp;simplify interaction with smart home appliances (camera devices). To this end, Shirley currently works on delivering projects involving integrating cameras with Alexa-enabled devices (Echo Show, Alexa app, etc.). \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eShirley joined Amazon for the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, and stayed for the culture. Shirley believes that the people she works with are not only incredibly smart but also great people all around. \u0026ldquo;They knit a strong team fabric that encourages me to be a better software engineer and a better person every day.\u0026rdquo; One of her favorite parts of Amazon culture is \u0026ldquo;the willingness [for Amazon] to obsess over customers and innovate on their behalf. 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To him, whether it is to help improve an existing customer experience or to create novel experiences for the future, obsessing over customers is a powerful mechanism that drives innovation needed to move the needle through scientific, engineering and product lenses.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/884/images/Sujith-543.jpg?1584454096","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/884/thumbnails/Sujith-300.jpg?1584454096","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/research-science","title":"Research Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-search","title":"Alexa Search"}},{"id":"meagan-f","identifier":"meagan-f","name":"Meagan F.","first_name":"Meagan","job_title":"Senior Process Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter spending 15 years of service in the U.S. Navy as a fighter pilot and three years working as a project manager in defense contracting, Meagan joined the Amazon team.\u0026nbsp; Meagan thrives in a fast paced environment that requires teamwork, intelligence, and a focus on maintaining high standards and Amazon provided just that environment.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMeagan and the process engineering team are constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve upon standard processes and designs to provide more efficient stations in the North American network.\u0026nbsp; Meagan has been blown away by the Amazon culture, which is rooted in the company\u0026rsquo;s leadership principles, and enable teams to accomplish goals quickly.\u0026nbsp; This has been a perfect fit for her Bias for Action to Deliver Results for her team.\u0026nbsp; In her first six months on the team she led a project that redesigned the layout of every delivery station in the network and she loved that she was given that opportunity so quickly.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe engineering team is working to scale the network so they can provide the best service for our customers.\u0026nbsp; In Meagan\u0026rsquo;s words, \u0026ldquo;we are here to provide quality service and support for our operations teams and our Amazon customers throughout North America.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Meagan loves to enjoy the outdoors in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three children.\u0026nbsp; In the winter they fill their days with skiing and in the summer they love to camp and hike with friends.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/885/images/Meagan_F__543_x_543.jpg?1584562467","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/885/thumbnails/Meagan_F_300_x_300-4.jpg?1584562467","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/transport","title":"Transportation \u0026 Logistics"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bellevue-washington","title":"Bellevue, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/operations-it-support-engineering","title":"Operations, IT, \u0026 Support Engineering"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amzl","title":"Amazon Logistics"}},{"id":"amy-s","identifier":"amy-s","name":"Amy S.","first_name":"Amy","job_title":"Regional Workplace Health \u0026 Safety Manager","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003eAmy loves that Amazon has provided her the opportunity to build a career in an unexpected field.\u0026nbsp; After serving 13 years in the Army in maintenance and transportation, Amy always thought she would work for a maintenance organization when she left the military.\u0026nbsp; After spending years as a Maintenance Leader, she saw Amazon\u0026rsquo;s investment in the safety of its workplaces firsthand and discovered a passion for safety processes. Amy saw she could make a positive impact on her workplace and that passion quickly turned into a new career path as she took on the role of Regional Safety Manager.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003eAmy now provides strategic safety direction and support for 50 percent of the company\u0026rsquo;s North American Customer Fulfillment Maintenance teams.\u0026nbsp; Amy works to make sure the maintenance teams work safe every day and is focused on building bottom-up mechanisms to help continuously improve safety culture and engagement.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0in; margin-left:0in\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003eOutside of work, she enjoys spending time with her wonderful husband and two beautiful children.\u0026nbsp; She wanted to leave you with a challenge: find what you are passionate about, and start working to make it your career!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/886/images/Amy_Spalding_543_x_543.jpg?1584563835","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/886/thumbnails/Amy_Spalding__300_x_300-4.jpg?1584563835","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/fulfillment-operations","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/louisville-kentucky-area","title":"Louisville, Kentucky area"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/ehs","title":"Environment, Health \u0026 Safety"}},{"id":"ted-miller","identifier":"ted-miller","name":"Ted Miller ","first_name":"Ted","job_title":"Principal Software Engineer, Alexa Smart Home Devices ","description":"\u003cp\u003eTed Miller has worked at Amazon for a little over two years! Prior to joining Amazon, Ted was a software engineer for 24 years at Microsoft, working mostly on operating systems. His first project was OS/2 1.2 (\u0026ldquo;forever ago!\u0026rdquo;) but he spent the majority of those 24 years working on Windows NT and Windows Phone. Ted also has a background in healthcare software and spent three years working on medical imaging software at a hospital in Bangkok, and another year doing the same at Microsoft.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTed\u0026rsquo;s current role consists of making engineering around him better, leading by example with a bias for action and a high bar for quality and customer orientation. This often translates to taking on architecture and implementation of critical customer-facing aspects, while helping engineers grow their skills and careers. Ted is currently working on Alexa Connect Kit, which is part of the Smart Home team. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a way to help device makers build Alexa-connected smart devices \u0026ndash; smart bulbs, microwave ovens, even smart Christmas trees!\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;This program has given me opportunities to connect directly and deeply with my customers. It\u0026rsquo;s been a rewarding experience watching them use my work and the work of my teammates to quickly build out products that end-users want. I still feel like we\u0026rsquo;re just at the beginning of what\u0026rsquo;s possible with Alexa Connect Kit, and I enjoy the steady stream of new opportunities arising as we get deeper into our customers\u0026rsquo; needs.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked what is unique about being a Principal Engineer at Amazon, Ted commented, \u0026ldquo;Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture fosters a strong sense of community among its technical leaders. We have gatherings several times per year, and I\u0026rsquo;m always impressed at the talent on display \u0026mdash; dreaming the big dreams at the forefront of human achievement, but balanced with actual nuts-and-bolts accomplishments!\u0026rdquo; Ted finds it easy to stay engaged with his work because Alexa Connect Kit\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;end-to-end\u0026rdquo; is long and diverse. \u0026ldquo;With the steady flow of interesting problems to solve, and a culture of using the right tool for the job, the variety makes for a great learning and growth experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhile working fully remote during COVID-19, Ted finds it important to foster inclusiveness so that people on the team who may be too shy to contribute don\u0026rsquo;t become invisible while everyone is at home. 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In the Supplier Development role on the Strategic Sourcing team, Ozma works on projects for procurement of material handling equipment (MHE) that enables world-wide operations teams to be ready for fulfillment site launches. Her personal mission is to develop supplier\u0026rsquo;s technical capability, capacity, and manage the supply chains in her areas of work \u0026ndash; these ultimately contribute to programs such as Prime, One-Day, and Two-Day Delivery. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith prior experience at a leading engine automotive manufacturer, Ozma was introduced to the world of Six-Sigma and Lean principles. She honed her skills in operations quality management by achieving operational quality goals with companies such as Dell and NCR. Both experiences helped her build skillsets that are routinely applied in her role at Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOzma\u0026rsquo;s team has contributed to robotics automation at fulfillment centers. She enjoys visiting fulfillment centers and watching robots from Amazon Robotics handle and sort packages. Summing up her experience at Amazon, she states, \u0026ldquo;There are so many cultural tidbits that make working at Amazon unique. Everything from watching boxes zooming through chutes in a fulfillment center, seeing the equipment my team helped develop, grabbing a hot sandwich at an Amazon Go store, or seeing a picture of a dog on a team\u0026rsquo;s org chart \u0026ndash; it\u0026rsquo;s so much fun.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Ozma enjoys playing with her kids, spending time with her husband (also an Amazonian) and baking delicacies \u0026ndash; especially cakes. 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She manages the lifecycle of complex cross-functional technical programs, and is responsible for the overall strategy as well as tactically driving teams in and outside of her organization to deliver.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eValerie\u0026rsquo;s proudest moment at Amazon is when she drove and delivered Botapalooza, Amazon\u0026rsquo;s first internal Robotics and Automation conference. The goal of this two-day conference was to showcase new robotic innovations to employees, and promote cross-company collaboration within Amazon\u0026#39;s robotics teams. With over a thousand people in attendance, robotics demonstrations, technical talks and breakout sessions, the event was a huge success in fostering new collaborations amongst the robotics community scattered across the globe.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eValerie\u0026rsquo;s favorite parts of Amazon are the endless growth and learning opportunities. She said, \u0026ldquo;I love how Amazon invests in its people and empowers them to drive their careers as they choose to. You always have room to grow into your current role, and you have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills to transition into a new one if you want to. I am continuously amazed by the new challenges and opportunities I can take on.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her free time, Valerie loves to travel to new places, go for long bike rides, and spend sunny days at Berlin\u0026rsquo;s finest lakes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/896/images/valerie543.jpg?1588620428","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/896/thumbnails/valerie300.jpg?1588620428","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/rai","title":"Robotics AI"}},{"id":"john-p","identifier":"john-p","name":"John","first_name":"John","job_title":"Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn is a Software Manager on the Canvas Technology team. He leads the teams that deliver the autonomous mobility functionality, including computer vision, path planning and fleet management. He is helping Canvas and Amazon deliver autonomous mobile systems across the network and providing material transportation solutions to several different applications.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn joined Canvas as one of the early developers before the acquisition by Amazon. \u0026ldquo;The week before I joined, the robot was finally able to move backwards,\u0026rdquo; he remembers from his early time with the company. The system has improved a lot since those initial prototypes as Canvas prepares to start deploying vehicles into process paths at Amazon scale.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePrior to joining Canvas, John worked for several years a Qualcomm in Boulder. He had a number of different roles there, including developing modem signal processing firmware for a new modem design. He was also adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado in the embedded systems program. He and several other members of the Canvas team have strong ties to CU and the Colorado School of Mines.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen not at work, John and his family are avid skiers at the nearby resorts. They also enjoy hiking and going to his daughter\u0026rsquo;s dance competitions.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/897/images/john-p543.jpg?1588625024","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/897/thumbnails/john-p300.jpg?1588625024","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/boulder-colorado","title":"Boulder, Colorado"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/rai","title":"Robotics AI"}},{"id":"kellen-s","identifier":"kellen-s","name":"Kellen","first_name":"Kellen","job_title":"Technical Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eKellen is a Technical Program Manager in the Robotics AI team supporting the engineering development of the Canvas Autonomous Cart. He has a background in Aerospace Engineering and autonomous off-Earth mining \u0026amp; in situ resource utilization. Kellen has previously supported automotive and aerospace projects in Detroit MI, Knoxville TN, Munich Germany, and Nagoya Japan. His work can be found on complex machines including the Acura NSX and Airbus A350.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eKellen joined Canvas Technology as small startup in 2017 and helped the team develop and evolve the Canvas Cart into a leading technology in the unstructured autonomous movement space. On the product management front, he supported the team by deeply understanding and evolving requirements around customer problems, the wide variety of deployment environments, and countless applications for the Cart\u0026rsquo;s collaborative autonomous capabilities. Kellen also worked to institute engineering development process for the team and redefine them over time as the team and objectives grew in size and scope.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eToday, Kellen leads a team of technical program managers, product managers, and system engineers working to scale autonomous mobility within Amazon. Canvas\u0026rsquo;s technology aims to improve the workplace for Amazon Associates and the delivery experience for Amazon\u0026rsquo;s customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Kellen enjoys chasing speed records and moving quickly in Colorado\u0026rsquo;s mountains on bikes, skis, and foot. Kellen loves building home robots at his log cabin in the mountains and he\u0026rsquo;s an avid amateur paleontologist with an affinity for North America\u0026rsquo;s Pliocene and Miocene creatures.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/898/images/kellen-s543.jpg?1588625656","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/898/thumbnails/kellen-s300.jpg?1588625656","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/boulder-colorado","title":"Boulder, Colorado"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/rai","title":"Robotics AI"}},{"id":"nontas-a","identifier":"nontas-a","name":"Nontas","first_name":"Nontas","job_title":"Applied Science Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eNontas is an Applied Science Manager on the Robotics AI team. He leads the Computer Vision and Machine Learning team in Berlin. His team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to develop semantic modeling and understanding solutions that generalize well to the large variance and scale of the Amazon Catalog and the processes at the Amazon Fulfillment Centers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNontas is fascinated by the synergy of many fields required to develop real world robotic systems, including, but not limited to, computer vision, machine learning, control, planning, mechanical and software engineering. \u0026ldquo;Continuously learning from the team\u0026rsquo;s experts in these different fields is probably the best part of my job\u0026rdquo;, he states. \u0026ldquo;I would like to further bridge the gap between the computer vision and robotics community. I would like to see more computer vision experts focusing their work and innovation on real-world robotics applications, because the potential impact is truly tremendous.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNontas\u0026rsquo; favorite part about Amazon is that it is a company of many startups, with a vast spectrum of businesses and applications. \u0026ldquo;This combined with the fact that internal mobility is strongly encouraged, makes Amazon the perfect place to grow yourself towards directions that you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t even imagine before joining,\u0026rdquo; he says. \u0026ldquo;To this day, I am still amazed by the pluralism of internal teams. This makes Amazon truly unique!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Nontas loves football (soccer), even though he\u0026rsquo;s better at being a spectator than a player. He also plays chess at any occasion. Finally, he loves exploring and discovering the perks of Berlin.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/899/images/nontas-a543.jpg?1588627248","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/899/thumbnails/nontas-a300.jpg?1588627248","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/rai","title":"Robotics AI"}},{"id":"jeremy-w","identifier":"jeremy-w","name":"Jeremy","first_name":"Jeremy","job_title":"Senior Manager of Applied Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeremy is a Senior Manager of Applied Science with Robotics AI. He is also the site lead for Robotics AI in Berlin. He previously worked in academia for 20 years. Jeremy is an expert in robot manipulation, robot planning, probabilistic AI and machine learning applied to robotics. He and his team deliver vision and planning solutions for robots in Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Fulfillment Centers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy\u0026rsquo;s favorite aspect of Amazon is the complexity of the problems to be solved each day and the scale at which solutions can be deployed. \u0026ldquo;I have become obsessed with how we can make the science serve the customer. To build useful systems quickly you need a remarkable eye for detail and the ability to anticipate potential pitfalls far in advance. Amazon\u0026rsquo;s robots must cope with an unmatched variability in the orders served to customers each day and perform with incredible levels of reliability.\u0026rdquo; He also loves that \u0026ldquo;simple solutions often turn out to be best and that each day you have to not just think about your own jigsaw piece but also about all the processes and people upstream and downstream that you might impact.\u0026rdquo; Finally, he loves that \u0026ldquo;just as in science, many decisions that we make are driven by the data and I love the culture of using data as well as insight to make your arguments as to how to proceed.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy is incredibly proud of the people he works with, \u0026ldquo;I love that every day I get to work with really, really smart folk, all of whom want us to be the best. I\u0026rsquo;m privileged to be able to help my team grow and solve some amazing problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/900/images/jeremyw545.jpg?1588627951","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/900/thumbnails/jeremyW300.jpg?1588627951","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/rai","title":"Robotics AI"}},{"id":"bhavana-c","identifier":"bhavana-c","name":"Bhavana","first_name":"Bhavana","job_title":"Sr. Machine Learning Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003eBhavana is a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer in the Robotics AI team. She builds computer-vision based robotic workcells, for the Amazon Fulfillment Network.\u0026nbsp; Her team\u0026rsquo;s mission is to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently with the clutter and uncertainty of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Fulfillment Centers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBhavana explained that she enjoys the challenges that come with Amazon\u0026rsquo;s scale. \u0026ldquo;Packages aren\u0026rsquo;t just plain cardboard boxes that come in one shape or size, they come in multiple dimensions and we need to solve for all of them.\u0026rdquo; She is excited that her work directly impacts the way Amazon fulfills orders every day, to thousands of customers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBhavana\u0026rsquo;s favorite part about the Amazon culture is working backwards. \u0026ldquo;Every project starts with the customer in mind. We write a PR FAQ which helps us envision what, why, and for whom we are building a product. We then work backwards from there to design the solution.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her free time, Bhavana enjoys hiking the many trails around Seattle, photography, and gardening.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/901/images/bhavana-c543.jpg?1588628449","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/901/thumbnails/bhavana-c300.jpg?1588628449","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/machine-learning-science","title":"Machine Learning Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/rai","title":"Robotics AI"}},{"id":"cristen-s","identifier":"cristen-s","name":"Cristen","first_name":"Cristen","job_title":"Transportation Operations Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eCristen has been with Amazon for over 7 years starting as a Tier 1 associate. When she first started working at Amazon she had no clue that Amazon would turn into the career that it has. The culture, operation, development, diversity and the customer obsession won her over immediately. She says, \u0026ldquo;The opportunities here at Amazon are truly endless. Amazon has help mold me into the leader that I am today.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCristen\u0026rsquo;s team is responsible for the daily oversight of our Amazon trailer yards. They oversee all transportation duties including trailer yard operations and over-the-road driving for Amazon owned lanes. As her Transportation team grows bigger, they keep inching towards all parts of the world. Cristen says, \u0026ldquo;Without Transportation, Operations could not get any freight into the building or out of the building, which directly affects the customer. The operation not only starts in Transportation with a smile but works all the way to the customer\u0026rsquo;s door step with that same smile.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart of her team\u0026rsquo;s mission is: \u0026ldquo;We maintain safe and efficient yard operations to increase overall Amazon transportation effectiveness.\u0026nbsp; We ensure that operations has the right equipment, in the right place, at the right time.\u0026rdquo; She and her leaders drive motivation, development, compliance, and standard work through engagement every single day.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Cristen enjoys spending time with her family. She has a son whose energy keeps her on her toes! She also enjoys cooking, going on walks with her family and two corgis and binge watching Netflix.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/902/images/CristenMurillo543.jpg?1588872064","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/902/thumbnails/CristenMurillo300.jpg?1588872064","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/transport","title":"Transportation \u0026 Logistics"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/southern-california-metropolitan-area","title":"Southern California Region, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/fulfillment-operations-management","title":"Fulfillment \u0026 Operations Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/hourly-transport","title":"Transportation Operations Management"}},{"id":"martin-g","identifier":"martin-g","name":"Martin","first_name":"Martin","job_title":"Principal Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eMartin is a Principal Engineer working on the Amazon Redshift team. After studying his PhD in in-memory database management systems in Germany, and working as a researcher in Switzerland, Martin\u0026rsquo;s AWS journey actually began in the US, before relocating back to Germany to the Redshift Berlin team.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eMartin believes the key to customer success is big thinking \u0026ldquo;We have to be able to understand in which direction our customers are moving, and for that reason the ability to think big in the name of the customer and the ability to design scalable software systems is crucial\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eThe most exciting part of Martin\u0026rsquo;s role? \u0026ldquo;I love building systems that operate at scales that are unimaginable for many people. Seeing all the pieces come together and making sure that our systems are observable and maintainable is exciting every single day\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/903/images/martin-g_543x543_.jpg?1590066604","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/903/thumbnails/martin-g_300x300.jpg?1590066604","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/software-development-engineers-and-managers","title":"Software Development Engineers "}},{"id":"nemanja-b","identifier":"nemanja-b","name":"Nemanja","first_name":"Nemanja","job_title":"Software Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eNemanja is a Software Engineer working on the Amazon Redshift team at AWS in Berlin. \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eBut that doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean every day is spent coding. \u0026ldquo;Being an AWS Software Engineer doesn\u0026rsquo;t stop at programming, \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eyou need system design skills, writing and communication skills, and above all else, a vision of what the future will look like!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eNemanja says the most exciting part of his job, is that it is also his passion \u0026ldquo;I have now reached a stage where my favourite hobbies are done during my work day! I have so much fun being able to contribute in so many areas\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eAnd the most challenging part of his role? \u0026ldquo;Moving myself out from the comfort zone. There are so many things in software that can be improved or\u0026nbsp;built, it\u0026rsquo;s very easy to be over-excited and overwhelmed. Learning to prioritise and accept what can be changed and when is a valuable learning that helps you grow\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eWhat advice would Nemanja give to any other engineers about working at AWS?\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;At AWS, you\u0026rsquo;re not here to solve tickets, you\u0026rsquo;re here to make a change\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/904/images/nemanja-b_543x543_.jpg?1590067922","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/904/thumbnails/nemanja-b_300x300_.jpg?1590067922","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/software-development-engineers-and-managers","title":"Software Development Engineers "}},{"id":"rabee-s","identifier":"rabee-s","name":"Rabee","first_name":"Rabee","job_title":"Software Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eRabee is a Software Engineer working on the Amazon Redshift team at AWS. He relocated from Pakistan to Germany\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eto gain his Masters in Distributed Software Systems at TU Darmstadt, and moved to Berlin to join the Redshift team in 2020.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eAt the time of writing this, Rabee has been with AWS just one month, having onboarded completely virtually. \u0026ldquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eOnboarding is never easy at the best of times, but doing it remotely brought new challenges. I have had to be completely shameless in asking for help. Thankfully, the team have been more than accommodating and answer any questions I have, which has actually accelerated my onboarding and made me feel at home straight away\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eWhat are Rabee\u0026rsquo;s first impressions? \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eHere at AWS, I already feel I have more responsibility and autonomy than in previous roles. This helps me to not only grow my technical skills but also in other areas such as time management and communication. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eHow would he describe his first month in three words? \u0026ldquo;Rewarding, fast-paced, and friendly!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/905/images/rabee-s_543x543.jpg?1590069205","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/905/thumbnails/rabee_300x300_new.jpg?1590573426","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/software-development-engineers-and-managers","title":"Software Development Engineers "}},{"id":"keiko-hongou","identifier":"keiko-hongou","name":"Keiko Hongou","first_name":"Keiko","job_title":"Data Associate","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e【やりがいはお客様の役に立てたとき】\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e社員紹介制度を通じて入社された「\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eEmployee Story\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e」をご紹介いたします。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e入社前は、\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazon\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eの違うチームで\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e2\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e年間契約社員として働いていた\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eKeiko\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eさん。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e現在、社員紹介で入社して\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e9\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eか月。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e面接時に、これまでどのような仕事をしてきたのかをある程度理解してもらえた事もメリットだったと感じています。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazonian\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eを身近で見てきて、どういう考えで仕事をするのか理解していました。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazon\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eの文化にも前もってなじみがあったので、入社後すぐに意識して仕事に臨むことができました」\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazon\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eで働くことをぜひ薦めたいと話す\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eKeiko\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eさん。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e学びが多い職場だと日々感じています。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「全員がリーダーであり、日々\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eお客様のために頑張ろう\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eと心がけている仲間を見ていると、自分も感化されます。積極的にメンバーの意見を取り上げてくれたり、チャレンジさせてくれる環境なので、成長できる機会がとても多いと思います」\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eKeiko\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eさんは、現在\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eOPTIMA (Operations and Programs To Improve customer satisfaction) \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eチームの一員です。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「簡単に言うと\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAlexa\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eをより賢くし、お客様により良いショッピング体験を提供するチームです。データの集計・更新を自動化するツールを作成したり、お客様からの具体的な要望を聞いて開発・提案をしたりします」\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eこの仕事のやりがいを\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e3\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eつ挙げてくれました。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e1. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e自動化ツールを作成して作業時間を減らすこと\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e2. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eそれにより分析する時間が増え、より質の良いデータを提供できること\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e3. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eそれらが結果的にお客様にとってより良い\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAlexa\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eでのショッピング体験に繋がること\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「チームのメンバーから感謝されることも大きなやりがいですが、自分の仕事がチームだけでなく最終的にお客様の役に立っている。そう考えると、さらにやりがいを感じます」\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazon\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eでの仕事のみならず、私生活も充実。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eプライベートでも、同僚の\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazonian\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eとゲームとバイクを楽しんでいます。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"left\" style=\"margin-bottom:12.0pt; text-align:left; margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.5pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Yu Mincho\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「愛車の\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eCBR1000RR\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eで山道や田舎道を走り、テレビ番組『ポツンと一軒家』に出てきそうなカフェに行くのが大好きです。また、\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eOPTIMA\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eチームのメンバーは仲が良いので、よく一緒にゲームをしたり休日に遊んだりもします」\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align:justify\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/906/images/instagram-In-Stream_Square___Keiko_Hongou.jpg?1590114939","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/906/thumbnails/Keiko_Hongou.jpg?1590114939","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/alexa","title":"Amazon Alexa "},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/tokyo-area-japan","title":"Tokyo, Japan"},"job_category":null,"team":{"path":"/en/teams/alexa-shopping","title":"Alexa Shopping"}},{"id":"patricia-m","identifier":"patricia-m","name":"Patricia","first_name":"Patricia","job_title":"Front-end Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003ePatricia has been obsessed with the world of web development since an early age \u0026ldquo;Ever since I was 16, I wanted to build websites that would help people to connect with each other\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAfter studying, freelancing and working at start-ups in her native Spain, she moved to Berlin with her husband and three ferrets to take her dream job at AWS. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eWorking as a Front-End Engineer for Resource Groups and Resource Access Manager consoles, Particia\u0026rsquo;s customers are \u0026ldquo;any customer who want to organise their resources. As this really means all AWS customers, you have to think big and connect the dots, so that you can help them both today and tomorrow\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAs well as taking care of customers, Patricia is also active in Amazon communities and affinity groups \u0026ldquo;I have helped to organise events for Girls in Tech, Accessibility Awareness and internal hackathons, and I also mentor new relocators into Berlin\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:105%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eWhat advice would she give to new people joining AWS? \u0026ldquo;If you enjoy what you are doing to help your customers and your team, you will soon realise how fast not only your team, but you, are growing too\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/907/images/Patricia_New_543x543.jpg?1590571611","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/907/thumbnails/Patricia_New_300x300.jpg?1590571611","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/software-development-engineers-and-managers","title":"Software Development Engineers "}},{"id":"adreana-s","identifier":"adreana-s","name":"Adreana","first_name":"Adreana","job_title":"Senior Portfolio Planner","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdreana started her career at Amazon in November 2013, in Munich. Since then, she has worked in different roles across the EU Marketing team. \u0026ldquo;What I enjoy most about working at Amazon are the many possibilities to explore different parts of the business \u0026ndash; and the encouragement you get as an employee to develop and unleash your talent.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAdreana started in a performance marketing role to acquire new customers through social media and affiliate marketing, before moving to a brand and mass marketing role. In this role,\u0026nbsp; she established the voice assistant and smart speaker category, through integrated broadcast marketing campaigns in Europe. Adreana states, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m a big believer in storytelling \u0026ndash; and I love a good challenge. It fills me with pride that I was involved in finding the right communication strategy and narrative for launching and establishing Alexa and the Amazon Echo Family in five European locales. What a great opportunity to bring this incredible innovation into people\u0026rsquo;s homes. I learned so much about the different consumer approaches to technology and local cultures.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn her current role, Adreana oversees the EU Marketing and investment strategy related to objectives for Amazon Marketing and Advertising across multiple categories, countries, and channel teams. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m excited and inspired to do something completely new that will expand my skill set. That\u0026rsquo;s the joy of working at Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBefore working for Amazon, Adreana graduated in Media \u0026amp; Communication Management with a focus on brand management and advertising. In her free time, Adreana loves to unwind with a good story\u0026mdash; be it from a book, a movie, or a conversation with friends.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/908/images/Adreana_Starke_-_Photo543.jpg?1590525448","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/908/thumbnails/Adreana_Starke_-_Photo300.jpg?1590525448","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/munich-germany","title":"Munich, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/marketing-pr","title":"Marketing \u0026 PR"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-prime","title":"Amazon Prime"}},{"id":"andrew-s","identifier":"andrew-s","name":"Andrew","first_name":"Andrew","job_title":"Global Head of Entertainment \u0026 Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew is a creative marketing pioneer who has helped some of the world\u0026rsquo;s most influential brands and artists thrive across the evolving media landscape. Prior to joining Amazon, Andrew spent over 15 years building and scaling global marketing practices for industry-leading companies including Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Comcast-NBCUniversal, and Tastemade. He has architected some of the largest entertainment marketing campaigns globally for over 250 top consumer brands and celebrity talent.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, Andrew leads the Entertainment and Culture practice globally for XCM, Amazon\u0026#39;s Cross-Category and Cross-Channel Mass Marketing team. He works to educate, inspire, and empower customers by building meaningful connections for them across entertainment and culture, which includes creator relations and the development of strategic marketing partnerships across television, streaming, film, and digital.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew loves the collaborative culture of Amazon. To date, he has been able to support teams and products including Alexa, Echo, Prime, Fire TV, Amazon Music, Amazon Books, Kindle, AWS, Amazon Studios, Audible, Ring and more. He sees every day at Amazon as new opportunity to learn, experiment, and build.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/909/images/Andrew_Saunders_-_Photo543.jpg?1590526014","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/909/thumbnails/Andrew_Saunders_-_Photo-300.jpg?1590526014","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/southern-california-metropolitan-area","title":"Southern California Region, California"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/sales-advertising-account-management","title":"Sales, Advertising, \u0026 Account Management"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-prime","title":"Amazon Prime"}},{"id":"avais-c","identifier":"avais-c","name":"Avais","first_name":"Avais","job_title":"Head of UK Prime","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter spending the better part of a decade in the energy sector, Avais joined Amazon after completing his MBA. He says, \u0026ldquo;I got myself into a different industry, role and location, and the only thing grounding me was my curiosity to learn.\u0026rdquo; Over the past six years, Avais has worked across various functions including category management, operations, and product development. \u0026ldquo;Generally, you have to go through multiple organizations, before you can get that breadth of experience. Not if you are working at Amazon.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAvais now leads Amazon\u0026rsquo;s flagship Prime program in the UK. \u0026ldquo;You get a real sense of purpose by working on a product that continues to make a positive impact for millions of customers.\u0026rdquo; Avais can remember many customer anecdotes that continue to drive his team.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt Amazon, Avais finds that long-term focus permeates everything. He explains, \u0026ldquo;It pushes you to innovate around hard problems that often take much longer to solve.\u0026rdquo; In 2016, Avais led a cross-functional effort to redesign the customer returns process. Avais and his team worked across multiple Amazon teams to innovate, and used machine learning to improve the process, which has helped make hassle-free returns possible for millions of customers in a sustainable manner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eInnovation and diverse thinking are at the heart of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s culture. In 2018, Avais revamped the onsite experience for Prime by combining Prime\u0026rsquo;s Auto-Targeting technology with the principles of cognitive psychology and behavioral design.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAvais has three passions: family, sports, and listening to Audible. When he isn\u0026rsquo;t spending time with his daughter, you can find him playing football and cricket on most weekend mornings. Rain or sunshine, he also loves to commute on his bicycle around London, while listening to books on Audible.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/910/images/Avais_Chishti_-_Photo543.jpg?1590526711","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/910/thumbnails/Avais_Chishti_-_Photo300.jpg?1590526711","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/advertising","title":"Advertising"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/london","title":"London (Greater London Area), England"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/marketing-pr","title":"Marketing \u0026 PR"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-prime","title":"Amazon Prime"}},{"id":"michael-to","identifier":"michael-to","name":"Michael","first_name":"Michael","job_title":"Principal Tech Program Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael believes the Technical Program Manager role was created just for him. The role requires creativity, analytical problem solving, a broad knowledge of software architecture, and a scrappy ability to pull together disparate ideas and team members. Michael loves the experience of starting with a blank slate and figuring out how to piece together a solution. And he\u0026rsquo;s thankful every day for like-minded teammates who value the same core leadership principles, despite coming from all corners of the world.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMichael\u0026rsquo;s background shaped him for this role. He grew up on a small family farm in Iowa, learning the value of hard work, integrity, and inventiveness from his parents who had to make do with limited resources. Michael taught himself to code on an Apple II and went on to study Computer Science and Engineering in college. He went on to earn a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in Analytic Philosophy and taught at a small liberal arts college. Michael uses his liberal arts skills to evaluate competing ideas, facilitate conceptual discussions, and communicate technical solutions through\u0026nbsp; Amazon\u0026rsquo;s six-page document form.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince joining Amazon in 2014, Michael has worked on a variety of projects within the Prime team. Many have been customer-facing, like enabling customers to enjoy Prime at a reduced price if they have an EBT or Medicaid card. Michael is especially excited to leverage his skills to help customers who are part of underserved populations.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Michael loves to ski on Crystal Mountain, boat on the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, and camp along the Pacific Coast with his wife and children. He\u0026rsquo;s also had the\u0026nbsp; privilege to play an important role in the lives of more than ten foster children over the last two decades.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/911/images/Michael_Tonderum_-_Photo543.jpg?1590529169","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/911/thumbnails/Michael_Tonderum_-_Photo300.jpg?1590529169","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/project-program-product-management-technical","title":"Project/Program/Product Management--Technical"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-prime","title":"Amazon Prime"}},{"id":"orna-s","identifier":"orna-s","name":"Orna","first_name":"Orna","job_title":"Software Development Manager","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrna is passionate about building something great for Amazon and Amazon Prime. She is excited to build software that is being used by\u0026nbsp; millions of customers worldwide, illustrating just\u0026nbsp; how much Amazon puts customers first. She is highly involved with her teams and is a solid contributor and communicator. Throughout her career, Orna has led critical, enterprise-wide businesses through her strong collaboration, qualitative and quantitative decision-making, and talent management. An exceptional calculated risk taker, she has co-founded two start-ups and brings this innovation to her role at Amazon. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOrna has established and grown two tech teams in Vancouver. She manages her team and also coaches other managers on their careers. She is a hard worker, demonstrates strong bias for action, and has delivered on multiple Prime goals since joining Amazon. Orna focuses and motivates people around her, which includes her engineers and other important stakeholders. Orna enjoys working at Amazon, where her great sense of humor and sharp mind are fiercely valued.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Orna puts her planning skills to work by planning all of her family\u0026rsquo;s vacations. She enjoys exploring new places with her wife and two kids.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/912/images/Orna_Shalev_-_Photo545.jpg?1590530740","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/912/thumbnails/Orna_Shalev_-_Photo300.jpg?1590530740","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/vancouvervictoria-canada","title":"Vancouver, Canada"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/amazon-prime","title":"Amazon Prime"}},{"id":"ioanna-t","identifier":"ioanna-t","name":"Ioanna ","first_name":"Ioanna","job_title":"Software Development Engineer","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eIoanna is a Software Development Engineer who started her AWS career with a six-month internship in the Amazon Redshift team. Six months was long enough to convince her that she was in the right place. \u0026ldquo;After finishing the internship, I knew that this was the perfect place for me. I happily accepted the offer to become a permanent member of the Spatial team\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eThe Spatial team is responsible for adding the spatial functionality to Amazon Redshift. \u0026ldquo;Our customers are those who have spatial data that they want to analyse, and my role is to provide them with the right tools to do so\u0026rdquo;. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Amazon Ember Medium\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eIoanna believes there are two sides to being a successful Software Engineer at AWS, one is a deep understanding of the programming language that enables you to design algorithms and scalable software systems, \u0026ldquo;But above all else you need to be eager to learn continuously and never stop envisioning the future directions of the systems that you design\u0026ldquo;.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/913/images/Ioanna_543x543.jpg?1590577485","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/913/thumbnails/Ioanna_300x300.jpg?1590577485","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services","title":"Amazon Web Services"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/berlin-germany","title":"Berlin, Germany"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/software-development","title":"Software Development"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/software-development-engineers-and-managers","title":"Software Development Engineers "}},{"id":"brayan-o","identifier":"brayan-o","name":"Brayan","first_name":"Brayan","job_title":"Research Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrayan was the first in his family to go to college and he has worked as a coach and unloaded linehaul trucks. Having a personal history with cancer and a family history with auto-immune disease prompted Brayan to attend graduate school for a degree in biomedical science. After completing his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington, Brayan rejoined the Modeling and Optimization (MOP) team - he was an intern the summer before graduation. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe MOP team fully embraces \u0026ldquo;learn and be curious\u0026rdquo; as it tackles a variety of problems that span the entire supply chain. MOP is closely tied to business owners and operators, and prides itself in coming up with rigorous long-term solutions to Amazon\u0026rsquo;s evolving transportation network, fulfilling deliveries to customers faster and at lower cost.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBrayan is intensely curious and loves to engage with his peers and mentors to solve problems. As an intern, Brayan worked on customer adoption of Amazon Lockers to help guide future locker deployment. Today, he develops creative machine-learning solutions for various supply chain processes. In MOP fashion, Brayan takes advantage of creative freedom by developing unusual solutions and pursuing his passions.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBrayan is a passionate advocate for STEM diversity and he is proud to have played a major role in having Amazon sponsor the National Diversity Conference, organized by the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. At the conference, he spoke to STEM undergraduate and graduate students about the role of scientists as creative problem solvers. Brayan hopes to encourage the next generation of diverse scientists to be bold and step into roles that extend themselves and their fields.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of Amazon, Brayan enjoys hiking with his wife and dog. He likes to participate in running events, train in boxing and kickboxing, and compete in Masskrugstemmens (beer stein holding competitions).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/914/images/Ortiz_543.jpg?1590788418","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/914/thumbnails/Ortiz_300.jpg?1590788418","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/seattle-wa","title":"Seattle, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/research-science","title":"Research Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/mop","title":"Modeling \u0026 Optimization"}},{"id":"xiaoyan-s","identifier":"xiaoyan-s","name":"Xiaoyan","first_name":"Xiaoyan","job_title":"Research Scientist","description":"\u003cp\u003eXiaoyan joined Amazon in 2019 after nine years in the railroad industry. When looking for a new job, she looked for a company that embraced science and technology in both planning and operations. Amazon was a perfect fit, as it is constantly improving the efficiency and capability of its fulfillment network.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eXiaoyan is obsessed with improving the efficiency of day-to-day activities through thoughtful planning and optimized execution. She works on a research team that collaborates with business partners to optimize the outbound fulfillment network \u0026ndash; from fulfillment centers, sort centers to last-mile delivery. With the goal of fast and efficient delivery, her team works on models to expand capacity, evaluate network designs, and coordinate the planning of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s ground and air transportation networks. She loves to deliver scientific tools to her business partners and see the tools make positive impacts in both planning and execution processes. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith Amazon\u0026rsquo;s fast-moving pace, it is not easy to \u0026ldquo;optimize\u0026rdquo; its giant fulfillment network. Yet, as Xiaoyan says, this is what makes the job fascinating, \u0026ldquo;It is challenging but in a good way. Best of all, you work with all the other talented teammates who share the same passion.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of work, Xiaoyan enjoys exploring the natural beauty of the Seattle area (from farms to lakes, to parks and trails) with her family.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/915/images/Si_Photo_543.jpg?1590789440","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/915/thumbnails/Si_Photo_300.jpg?1590789440","business_category":{"path":"/en/business_categories/operations-technology","title":"Operations Technology"},"location":{"path":"/en/locations/bellevue-washington","title":"Bellevue, Washington"},"job_category":{"path":"/en/job_categories/research-science","title":"Research Science"},"team":{"path":"/en/teams/mop","title":"Modeling \u0026 Optimization"}},{"id":"doug-c","identifier":"doug-c","name":"Doug Crowder","first_name":"Doug","job_title":"Principal Systems Development Engineer, Project Kuiper ","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Doug started his career at Apple where he worked on systems and silicon through the PowerPC and x86 eras, then later designed IP for iPhone and iPad SoCs. He then joined Tesla and worked on the Model S, X, and 3 batteries before joining the Autopilot SoC team. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m a hands-on systems engineer at heart and enjoy turning big, interdisciplinary projects into compelling products.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eCurrently, Doug is working on Project Kuiper, an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the globe. \u0026ldquo;There are still far too many people without good options for internet access. Working on a project with a compelling mission, the caliber of people I interact with, and the breadth of challenging technical problems to solve makes it easy to stay engaged at work.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;My role as a principal engineer is to bring out the best in other individual contributors and steer the project to success, working across teams and up and down the stack from high-level architecture to low-level implementation detail.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color:black\"\u003eDoug started working at Amazon shortly before the COVID-19 work from home guidance was put in place and was not able to meet as many teammates in person as expected. His tip to employees in a similar situation is to be proactive about reaching out and developing rapport, while being respectful of each person\u0026rsquo;s time and preferred means of communication.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/920/images/docrowd-high-res-current-photo.jpg?1591155817","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/920/thumbnails/docrowd-high-res-current-photo.jpg?1591155817","business_category":null,"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"savas-parastatidis","identifier":"savas-parastatidis","name":"Savas Parastatidis","first_name":"Savas","job_title":"Senior Principal Engineer, Alexa AI ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;Calibri\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eBefore joining Amazon, Savas proposed and built the architecture for the first prototype of Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s virtual assistant, Cortana. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on the natural language experience for Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s Xbox Kinect project, on cloud-based, large-scale data processing infrastructures, and many eScience projects at Microsoft Research. Savas completed his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle, where he was a researcher working on eScience, web services, and distributed \u0026amp; high-performance computing. Savas frequently shares updates on his blog at \u003ca href=\"https://savas.me\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\"\u003ehttps://savas.me\u003c/a\u003e and on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/savasp\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/savasp\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSavas is currently working on the suite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that power Alexa. \u0026ldquo;I am super passionate about personal digital assistants. I truly believe that the natural interaction between humans and digital agents is emerging as the next paradigm shift in how we consume knowledge and interact with services. I work towards the application of AI in service of humans, and in improving every aspect of our digital and physical experiences. My goal is to help customers throughout their day via a natural, fluent, and coherent experience. As an industry, we have made tremendous progress towards the quality and usefulness of digital assistants, but we have still barely scratched the surface of what is possible.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;As a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI, I get to work with really smart people on interesting challenges. I work with experienced designers, product managers, engineers, and business leaders to translate our shared vision for Alexa to the useful, knowledgeable, understanding digital agent that millions of customers use every day around the world. I learn a lot as a result, which is a great motivator. I draw energy from the idea that I can help people be more creative and productive by taking over tasks that can be automated, giving back valuable time to invest it on what matters most to them. I am inspired and challenged by poems such as \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf9ZhU7zF8s\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\"\u003eThe Panda is Dancing\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rdquo;, and aspire to apply AI technologies to enhance humans\u0026rsquo; abilities so they can do more in their lives.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked what is unique about being a principal engineer at Amazon, Savas responded \u0026ldquo;Amazon\u0026rsquo;s scale, combined with the unparalleled focus on customer value, makes this a very interesting place to work. For a computer scientist and software engineer like me, there is no shortage of technical challenges. Wherever you turn, you can identify a product idea in need of a technical solution. There is always someone smarter than you from whom you can learn. The combination of technical challenges, Amazon\u0026rsquo;s high standards for customer value and quality, and the opportunity to learn help me grow as a professional and technical leader in my field. It also keeps me humble in my endeavors to make a difference through my work.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/921/images/savasp-amazon.jpg?1591732055","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/921/thumbnails/savasp-amazon.jpg?1591732055","business_category":null,"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"tushaar-sethi","identifier":"tushaar-sethi","name":"Tushaar Sethi","first_name":"Tushaar","job_title":"Principal Security Engineer, Information Security","description":"\u003cp\u003eTushaar has worked at Amazon for over 14 years! Prior to joining Amazon, Tushaar worked on web applications, loadbalancers, data center operations, and cryptographic hardware at RealNetworks. Tushaar received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, and a M.S in Computer Science (Distributed Systems and Computer Networks) from the University of Southern California.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nNow, Tushaar is on the Information Security team that is responsible for security across all of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s businesses (excluding AWS). He works in the areas of application security, cloud usage security, and helps set broader enterprise information security vision and strategy across Amazon. Additionally, he is currently a technical lead on all security aspects of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s COVID-19 mitigation efforts.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;As a Principal Security Engineer, the role is really focused on maintaining and elevating our customer\u0026rsquo;s trust in Amazon. The goal is to analyze and build security into our services in a way that balances security and privacy risks, while still delighting customers.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026ldquo;The sheer breadth, pace, scale, and diversity of Amazon\u0026rsquo;s innovation makes information security work challenging, exciting and rewarding. The visibility and participation in multiple businesses, and the need to learn new technical things in a continuously shifting security landscape is what keeps me deeply engaged.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nWhen asked what is unique about being a Principal Engineer at Amazon, Tushaar commented \u0026ldquo;Principal Engineers at Amazon have the freedom and responsibility to set the technical vision, strategy and be part of the hands-on execution. 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In 2013, I joined Alexa\u0026#39;s Natural Language Understanding team and have worked on it ever since.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#333333\"\u003eCurrently, Melanie works on all of the infrastructure that goes into producing Alexa\u0026rsquo;s models. She works at the intersection of science and engineering, collaborating with applied scientists to bring cutting-edge research to production. \u0026ldquo;The opportunity to do that at the scale we operate is rare, not only in the industry, but at Amazon!\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#333333\"\u003eWhen asked what keeps her engaged with her work at Amazon, Melanie commented: \u0026ldquo;As much as code is at the center of my profession, and as rewarding as it is to work on Alexa, it\u0026#39;s always been about the people. Every day I am lucky to work with talented, hard-working engineers and scientists who devote themselves to solving problems together. They do not work for the glory or to just hear themselves speak, but to find the best path forward. I\u0026#39;ve been blessed with managers who are interested in my career growth and challenged me to take on projects outside of my comfort zone. To pay that forward, I try to mentor as many engineers as I can to help them achieve their career goals.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nMelanie\u0026rsquo;s role as a principal engineer is to guide teams to deliver software that strikes the right balance of meeting both \u003cspan style=\"color:#333333\"\u003eimmediate and long-term needs of the organization. \u0026ldquo;While I have a handful of core focus areas where I can dive deeper, contribute code, and inform the longer-term road-map, I can jump into any new area in my organization that needs me to de-risk. Another crucial part of the job is growing engineers and managers to ensure the organization is set up to succeed as a whole.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#333333\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;At Amazon, principal engineers are expected to be able to solve architectural problems spanning organizations, and be hands-on builders. Principal engineers are not ivory tower architects; they need to be close to the technical details, and be willing to jump in to help wherever needed.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","image":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/923/images/principal-profile-picture.jpg?1592525468","thumbnail":"https://static.amazon.jobs/employee_profiles/923/thumbnails/principal-profile-picture.jpg?1592525469","business_category":null,"location":null,"job_category":null,"team":null},{"id":"matsuda_hirofumi","identifier":"matsuda_hirofumi","name":"Hirofumi Matsuda","first_name":"Hirofumi","job_title":"Recruiter, Consumer TA","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazonに入社して６か月のHirofumiさん。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazon PrimeやKindle、Amazon Freshといった注目度の高いサービスの中途採用を担当しています。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「部門長と共にどのような人材をいつまでに採用したいかという全体のプランを設計し、そこから更にどのように適切な人材を獲得していくか、どのように他社との人材獲得競争に勝っていくかといったストーリーを構築しています」\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eまた、前職の経験をそのまま活かせたことで、自信を持って取り組むことができているそうです。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「採用活動を進めるにあたって外部に公表すべき情報は何か、どういうコミュニケーションをとるのが効果的なのかなど、採用経験がない方にとってはなかなか想像しづらい点に関して、これまでの自身の経験から部門の方にアドバイスをしてうまくいった時には「ここでも通用するな」と自信につながりました」。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e社員紹介で\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazonに入社したHirofumiさんですが、知っている人が身近にいることを、心強く感じたと話します。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「転職した直後は、本領発揮する以前に、覚えないといけないことやわからないことがたくさんあります。近くに知っている人がいると質問もしやすいし、誰が何を知っているのかという情報も教えてもらえるので、非常に心強かったです」。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eそんな\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eAmazonの中途採用に向いているのは、興味の幅が広く、想像力と探求心が豊かな人だと考えています。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「採用したい人をキーワードで機械的に探すのではなく、多様な業界を俯瞰しながら、それぞれの業界の文化、働き方、特性、その他職種間の関連性やその方がお持ちのスキルセットといったものがどこでどう交わるかを想像しながら進めることを大切にしています。この想像力を担うために、常日頃から業界内外のニュースや動きにも注目しています」。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003eプライベートでは、\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e\u0026rdquo;非日常\u0026ldquo; を楽しむHirofumiさん。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 0in 8pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height:107%\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"JA\" style=\"font-family:\u0026quot;AM-JP UD Shin Go NT Pr6N R\u0026quot;,sans-serif\"\u003e「日本人が一人ではあまり訪れないような国の現地の人と親しく話したり、紹介してくれたおすすめスポットへ足を伸ばしたり。サバイバルゲームも運動不足の解消と日ごろのストレス発散を兼ねて、友人とよく行きます」。\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0in 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