Principal Technical Program Manager - Prime Video, Content Localization, Understanding and Enrichment

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast
collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of
devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their
favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM
Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from
Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+.
All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can
rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content
for free with ads.

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 Prime Video Tech takes
you!

To help a growing organization quickly deliver more efficient features at scale
to Prime Video customers, our core engineering organization is innovating on
behalf of our global software development team consisting of thousands of
engineers. This organization is building a team specialized in architectural
transformation and infrastructure efficiency to support business growth. This
team will focus on the long term, break down large projects into
cross-functional milestones with value and reshape our global software
environment.

As a leading member of the core team, you will apply your deep knowledge of
Technical Program Management to problems that have broad cross-organizational,
global, and technology impact. You will own the end to end planning, execution
and launch of a transformation program that spans all teams within Prime Video.
You will work on large scale engineering efforts that solve significantly
complex problems facing global customers. You will be trusted to operate with
complete independence and are often assigned to focus on areas where the
business and/or architectural strategy has not yet been defined. You must be
equally comfortable digging in to business requirements as you are drilling into
design with development with teams. This program is high visibility and you will
be influencing leaders at all levels. This role provides you the opportunity to
think big in terms of strategy as well as significantly impact the bottom line.

Requirements

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Responsibilities

• Consistently meet challenging deadlines and deliver high-quality solutions that enable the Prime Video platform to scale to meet growing customer demand.
• Overcome obstacles and persist in the face of setbacks to ensure critical initiatives are successfully completed.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks, communicating regularly with stakeholders on project status and issues.
• Demonstrate deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale data processing.
• Understand the architecture and design limitations of the existing Prime Video systems, and drive technical decisions that address deficiencies and optimize performance.
• Use data-driven analysis to make a compelling case for project priorities and resource allocation.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and successful execution of large, complex infrastructure optimization and scaling programs.
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and business leaders to align initiatives with high-level objectives and achieve measurable improvements in efficiency or customer experience.
• Communicate ideas effectively to a wide range of audiences, foster constructive dialogue, and lead the resolution of contentious technical issues.
• Set a best-in-class example for project management practices, driving crisp decision-making and proactive risk mitigation.

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
• Education Level: No Education Listed