Head of Developer Education, Kiro, Kiro

Amazon • Santa Clara, CA

4h

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Head of Developer Education for Kiro to define, build, and scale Kiro’s developer experience. You will craft a comprehensive education strategy that helps developers — from first-time explorers to advanced production users — understand, adopt, and master Kiro’s capabilities.

This role sits at the intersection of content strategy, developer experience, curriculum design, and developer feedback loops. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing to ensure education directly improves activation, retention, and meaningful usage of Kiro.

The Kiro team is building the future of software development.

We believe coding is quickly evolving to spec-driven, agent-powered collaboration where developers orchestrate intelligent systems that design, implement, test, secure, and operate software alongside them. Kiro is our next-generation agentic development system: a suite of AI agents and experiences that work across IDE, CLI, Web, and other environments to function as true engineering teammates.

We are inventing new interaction models for developers—multi-agent workflows, persistent team learnings, long-running autonomous tasks, and deeply integrated cloud skills. This is not an incremental evolution of code completion. This is a re-definition of how software gets built. Come join us on this mission!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related STEM fields, or experience in software development
• 10+ years of experience in developer education, developer experience, developer relations, technical content leadership, or related roles.
• Deep technical fluency — you understand developer workflows, can read/write code, and can explain technical concepts clearly.
• Proven success creating structured learning paths and educational content that measurably improve user outcomes.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, engineering, support, and community teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted or intelligent developer tools, and familiarity with how developers adopt new paradigms.

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing technical articles, speaking at technology conferences, and contributing to open source
• Experience growing or leading an education, DevRel, or developer experience org.
• Track record improving developer onboarding and retention through education investments.

Responsibilities

• Define and continually refine Kiro’s developer education strategy and long-term roadmap.
• Build compelling, structured learning paths and own the developer learning experience as a strategic lever for product growth and trust.
• Produce high-impact education artifacts: tutorials, walkthroughs, how-to guides, best-practice playbooks, code samples, interactive labs, long and short videos — basically whatever it takes.
• Translate complex agentic AI concepts into clear, actionable lessons that developers can apply immediately.
• Partner with engineering to keep educational content aligned with product changes and releases.
• Systematically gather developer feedback on learning pain points, confusing workflows, and patterns of failure.
• Communicate insights back to Product and Engineering to reduce friction and improve the overall product experience.
• Use telemetry and qualitative user signals to measure and improve education impact.
• Lead programs that integrate education into community touchpoints — office hours, workshops, webinars, events, and interactive sessions.
• Enable internal and external educators to represent Kiro’s best practices and workflows.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level