Description

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career in Prime Video Tech takes you!

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers a vast collection of digital videos—all with the ease of customers finding what they love to watch in one place.

Included with Prime: Watch thousands of popular movies and TV shows, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals such as the Emmy Award-winning comedies Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Boys, Citadel, Mr. Mrs. Smith, Reacher, the Academy Award-winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, Academy Award-nominated The Big Sick and Cold War, exclusives, live sports including Thursday Night Football and licensed content available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will lead large and complex programs that span multiple business units.

Key job responsibilities

You have excellent organization, program management, and communication skills, and a motivation to deliver results in a fast paced environment.

You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex software systems, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about connecting customer problems through underlying scalable software that raises the bar on customer and operational goals.

You will work deeply with engineering teams on the design, implementation, and drive the delivery of large technology initiatives for Prime Video customer personalization, content discovery, title recommendations, ads promotions and enhancing key viewing features and customer engagement on the Prime Video platform.

You will be responsible for leading initiatives spanning across teams of software engineers, data engineers, designing and building innovative software solutions for our customers. You will need to be an excellent leader and bridge across various parts of technology, product, business operations and creative.

A day in the life

You will partner with senior leaders across the org in developing a strategic vision for Prime Video. You will define and deliver on key goals and update business stakeholders.

You will lead collaboration with engineering teams to understand project status, provide resources and insights to deliver milestone goals and remove roadblocks. Partner with product teams to deliver requirements on upcoming projects.

About the team

Technical Program Managers at Prime Video are embedded with various engineering and product teams on the design, implementation and delivery of large technology initiatives across Prime Video.

Projects include (customer personalization, content discovery, title recommendations, ads promotions and enhancing key viewing features and customer engagement on the Prime Video platform).

This role reports into Senior Leadership, and has direct exposure to Directors and VPs.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of technical product or program management experience

3+ years of software development experience

5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience

Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design

Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.