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Sr. Technical Program Manager, Live Sports, Prime Video Sports

Job ID: 2834585 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership.

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 are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager for our team in Seattle, WA, to build innovative solutions for customers to discover engaging and personalized live content to enjoy. This is a transformative opportunity, the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video, and the live streaming experience for customers everywhere. In this role you will work across our distributed engineering team in building a wide variety of services from flexible Live Sports publishing platform that integrates with the broader Prime Video ecosystem to low-latency, high-TPS services that impact the discovery experience on a wide variety of devices.

What will you do?

1. You will own and drive product features partnering with SDMs in our Seattle, WA, Austin, TX, and Arlington, VA teams.
2. You'll collaborate with Prime Video teams including Catalog, Commerce, Offers, X-Ray, Prime Video Channels, Store Front Automation, devices and more.
3. You will look around corners, anticipate bottlenecks, and use technical judgement to land complex programs for our business.
4. You will also influence and shape how we execute and help drive velocity with high quality.

This role involves regular communication with senior, director, and VP level management on project status and risks, broad cross-team coordination on project execution, creating effective project management strategies to meet deliverables and organize teams, and regular updates to Critical Program Reviews and other reporting mechanisms.

If you’re excited about helping to build the future of live sports or just want to have fun creating something you can be proud to show your family and friends, reach out. We’d love to chat.

If you are excited about leading complex programs, solving hard problems, and leading positive change, this is the team to be on.

Key job responsibilities

1. Be a guardian of world-class customer experience for your deliverables: continually raise the bar on functionality, flow, consistency, usability, and simplicity.
2. Be the interface between the product owners and the development team, thoroughly understanding the product, helping define user stories, and driving the evaluation of appropriate technical solutions to meet the business requirements.
3. Own engagement and build mechanisms to collaborate effectively with the partners across Prime Video, Amazon.com, and other critical external partners.
4. Work to decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical leadership.
5. Help make the right feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising customer experience and business relevance.
6. Engage with many other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals.
7. Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
2. 3+ years of software development experience.
3. 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience.
4. Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
5. Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design.
6. Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
2. 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.

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