Product Manager Live Sports Property Management, Advertising in Live Events Job

Description If you love sport and solving big customer problems, then Amazon Advertising’s Senior PM-T of Live Sports Property Management is an amazing opportunity for a role that lies at the intersection of your interests. With broadcast agreements around the world including the NFL’s Thursday Night Football in the US, a new global rights deal with the National Basketball Association as well as rights to the UEFA Champions League in several EU countries, Prime Video is delivering the future of Live Sports to Prime customers. Advertising is a crucial part of our success in Live Sports. We are endeavoring to build a world-class live sports ad program that benefits our customers, advertisers and league partners with unique, never-been-done-before ad experiences. Our vision is to make every ad a customer sees during a live event broadcast dynamically inserted, personalized, measurable and interactive across all live event properties Prime Video distributes globally. As we engage with more leagues around the world, we need to extend our technology to support advertising in new sports, countries and experiences and we need to incorporate these new sports into our ad products for our advertising customers to easily buy placement in these events. In this role, you own bridging Prime Video's new live sports rights acquisition with Amazon's advertising technology. This will include engaging with Prime Video during the early stages of rights negotiation, develop tools to ingest new ad inventory from those rights, manage the onboarding of the event schedule, support property managers with the pre-event operational support to ensure each broadcast event launches with an outstanding viewer experience. The leader in this role must stay well-informed about trends in live sports broadcasting and advertising, as well as innovations from Amazon’s internal advertising teams. They must address feedback from clients and sales partners and prioritize their resources to deliver on commitments to their partners. They will establish goals for the organization, will create mechanisms to manage the goals and are responsible for providing visibility across the organization on the program vision, goals and success. Key job responsibilities Prime Video Engagement: Engage with Prime Video to deeply understand the schedule of confirmed or pending rights negotiation. Produce Development: Develop tools to connect Prime Video's live event schedules to advertising systems and build internal tools for property managers to easily evaluate and manage risks to launching each broadcast successfully. Partnership with Production teams: Develop communication pathways and mechanisms to ingest ad schedules from production teams. Partnership with Sales and Go-to-market teams: Ensure new properties are appropriately incorporated into our sales materials and we have proper planning to deliver on revenue goals. Strategy authorship: Write 1, 4 and 6 page documents communicating plans to internal stakeholders from across and at all levels within Amazon. This includes monthly and quarterly business reviews and as a contributor to OP1. Live Match Support: For major property launches or key/critical events, you will be expected to participate in control room monitoring with your peers from across the company to monitor the event and troubleshoot issues in real time as needed (up to 20x per year) A day in the life Meet with Prime Video property managers to gain an understanding of the leagues we are planning to launch for viewers. This will include details around the schedule of events, audience size and advertising opportunity. Based on what you've learned from the schedule, you will develop a roadmap of which technology will be deployed to support the launch of the new property. You will work with engineering teams to build automation of the ingestion and management of new properties. On a weekly basis, you will communicate status of your program Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product Experience managing technical products or online services Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning Preferred Qualifications Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools 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 $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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.