Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

AWS is seeking a Director of Developer Experience, responsible for defining and driving engagement with the global developer community, delivering developer programs and experiences, engagement with the Open Source community, and acting as the developer audience subject-matter expert advising the marketing programs for developers. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires close partnership across Training & Certification, Engineering & AWS Service teams, Marketing, and Sales. You must have deep understanding of the developer audience and proven expertise engaging with the developer community.

This role requires deep technical expertise, exceptional leadership, and strong communication skills. The Director, Developer Experience will need to have an understanding and perspective on developer ecosystems and emerging technologies as well as a proven track record of successful community building and engagement. The ability to translate complex/technical concepts for diverse audiences, both internal and external is crucial.

Come build the future with us! What unites all Amazonians (across teams and geographies) is that we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier. In pursuit of delighting customers, Amazonians have developed many products and services that have transformed the way our customers live their lives and run their businesses. Together we are building the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead, inspire and oversee the global AWS Developer Experience team, comprised of Developer Advocates; tech teams and evangelists, reporting to the AWS CMO.
• Develop a global strategy for the AWS Evangelism and Developer Experience function that will delight our developer community and drive accelerated adoption of AWS products and services.
• Lead and inspire the Developer Experience team to promote an engaged developer community, fostering relationship building with our global developer community.
• Create and maintain technical content, documentation, programs, events and resources to support developers in using our products.
• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and online forums to ensure our presence within the developer community.
• Collaborate across Marketing and AWS with product teams to advocate for developer-centric product improvements.
• Analyze feedback from the developer community to drive continuous improvement and innovation.