Adam Levenson

Amazon Discover curates, ranks and delivers inspiration content (photos/videos).

• Managed, mentored, and grew team of backend (aws, java, scala, python, typescript) and full-stack engineers (js, react) responsible for launch and management of multiple tier-1 and tier-2 services
• Launched tier-1 service to support Amazon's new mobile social shopping feed, delivering over 200M impressions per month
• Led multiple team initiatives to improve morale and efficiency through training and adoption of agile processes, reducing meeting time by 25% and increasing velocity by more than 10%
• Built multi-team long-term roadmap, capacity plan and execution plan in collaboration with UX Designers, Product Managers and Senior Leaders
• Oversaw 10+ simultaneous projects, monitoring each for development milestones, quality control and customer impact
• Led CX and technical review for organizational accessibility standards as organization's first Accessibility Bar Raiser
• Managed multiple stakeholders and cross functional teams of engineers, designers and product managers to deliver cross-organization shared goals for ads and content delivery
• Provided bi-weekly updates on program progress and key business metrics to senior leadership

Digital Operative (merged with 85Sixty in 2020) was a full service ecommerce agency specializing in technology & marketing.

• Bootstrapped business from 0 to 50 people; Acquired by $2B public Japanese company in 2016; Merged with 85Sixty in 2020
• Managed and mentored team of 30+ software engineers, program managers, operations managers, and solutions architects across 5 countries and 6 time-zones
• Conducted business and technical level requirements gathering consulting sessions to document requirements, business goals and KPIs
• Architected and implemented technical solutions for data and ecommerce systems including user stories, functional requirements and systems designs
• Analyzed competition, market demand and customer needs to lead programs to "productize" technical delivery services
• Maintained expert level knowledge of ecommerce ecosystem including platforms, payments, subscriptions and back-office processes
• Designed, implemented and managed company-wide agile delivery planning and processes
• Serve as lead solutions architect pre and post sale, including solution development, platform selection and proposal writing/pitching
• Supported current and emerging programs through interactions with high-level customers, business partners and external vendors
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (strategy, UX, design, engineering and PMO) to plan, design and integrate features and functionality to meet business needs
• Managed weekly sales and financial projections, company-wide P&L and overall resourcing and capacity forecasts
• Designed, implemented and maintained order management system for key clients, resource planning and allocation platform for internal use, and aws deployment systems for internal/external use