More information about Steven L.

*Introduction* Steve is a former senior manager and principal solutions architect at Amazon AWS, UK. During his tenure at Amazon, Steve was both a hiring manager and bar raiser, interviewing over 350 candidates from L4 to L8 for a variety of technical and non-technical roles. He has progressed his career from an IC to a Manager to a Leader of Leaders role. He has written a number of promotional documents for L6 & L7 promotions and reviewed many others. He is an expert at pinpointing gaps in experience when planning for promotions, and can work with you on identifying strategies to progress to the next level and writing a bar-raising promo doc. His key areas of expertise comprise: resume review, behavioral interviews, promotion coaching and writing, leadership coaching, and management transition support including difficult conversations, performance management, time management/prioritization, and emotional intelligence. Steve is passionate about supporting both tenured and early-career individuals to find their dream roles, develop their careers, or decide on how to move to the next level or even their next role. *Pass your interviews* Steve is currently the Cloud Platforms director at a leading autonomous vehicle scale-up. He is a former Senior Manager and Bar Raiser at AWS. During his 7.5 years with Amazon, he interviewed over 350 candidates from L4 to L8 covering Solutions Architecture, Software Engineering, and non-technical roles. He has built diverse, multi-disciplined teams, coached ICs to take on Manager roles, advised business leaders on technology strategy, and successfully promoted individuals to Senior (L6) & Principal (L7) levels. Steve is passionate about supporting both tenured and early-career individuals, in finding their dream roles, developing their career, or deciding on their next position. His key areas of expertise comprise: resume review, behavioral and technical interviews, promotion coaching and writing, leadership coaching, and management transition support. *Get more interviews* Steve has reviewed 100s of resumes covering both early career graduates to tenured leaders with decades of experience. He has provided advice for individuals, pinpointing what information will get you noticed, and focusing on the value added to your resume. Through a candidate-centric approach, Steve can identify your key strengths, data points, and valuable contributions, which can be tailored to the specific role you wish to pursue. Maximizing the likelihood of progression to interview. *Make a career transition* Steve has successfully promoted individuals to Senior and Principal levels. He can help you in building your promotion document and identify gaps to focus on. He has reviewed many promotion cases for others and knows what is needed to progress to the next level. Steve can work with you to decide if management is the right path for you and support you once you make that decision. A key area of expertise is how to approach the more challenging areas of management such as difficult conversations and performance management. He can also help you decide on whether or not you want to take that leap to another company and advise on the many differences in working for both Big Tech companies vs Startup / Scale up high growth organisations.