What Makes a Senior Manager Stand Out

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What Makes a Senior Manager Stand Out

Hosted by Ethan Evans and David Anderson

1,917 students

What you'll learn

Key ways to stand out

Why (and how) to laser focus on top priorities only and build strong connections in critical peer orgs

Critical mistakes to avoid

How to not anger your team and be overly defensive about your org

What makes the final difference to move up

1-2 big wins vs smaller more frequent wins (and how to get executive recognition to hang your hat on)

Live Q&A

Why this topic matters

If your peers deliver results, go above and beyond, and make their ambitions known ... how do you stand out and breakthrough to executive? Join a unique discussion between David Anderson (Scarlet Ink) and Ethan Evans, who worked together as Director and VP at Amazon to select, develop, and promote Senior Managers in their teams.

You'll learn from

Ethan Evans

Former Amazon VP (15+ years); 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+

In Ethan's 15+ years at Amazon, he led global teams of 800+ and invented well-known businesses and products such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.

Hold 70+ patents.
Reviewed 10,000+ resumes and conducted 2,500+ interviews.
Was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader, responsible for training and maintaining Amazon's group of interview outcome facilitators.
Helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) “Ownership” — the words, “They never say ‘that’s not my job.’” are Ethan's.

Ethan has promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal, and of his former reports 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside of Amazon.

Ethan retired from Amazon as a Vice President in September 2020 to focus on paying forward his good fortune to others.

Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years at 3 startups.

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David Anderson

Author of the Scarlet Ink Newsletter; Former Amazon GM & Tech Director

David is the author of Scarlet Ink, a popular technology leadership newsletter.

He spent more than 12 years at Amazon, moving from the lowest level development manager, to a Technology Director and GM. During the majority of those years, David was also a bar raiser and member of the bar raiser core leadership group (helping direct how the bar raiser program operates).

At the beginning of the pandemic, David was asked to help Bezos Academy get started as their CTO. He spent a year at Bezos Academy building the Technology foundation for the school system, and hiring an excellent IT leadership team.

David left the corporate world to pursue his passion for writing, and raising chickens.

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