Senior Program Manager, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Tax

Amazon; Culver City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Program Manager for the Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Tax Planning Team in Culver City, CA. You will develop long-term tax planning strategies across digital businesses and standardize processes across groups with varying priorities.

The role focuses on collaborating with Tax Planners, Product Managers, and business partners to assess upstream and downstream impacts, managing escalations, and delivering results in a fast-paced, collaborative, and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy and communicating results to senior leadership.
• Knowledge of general AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive process improvements; document best practices and timing accountability to timelines.
• Define processes to gather tax requirements and translate for stakeholders.
• Present complex concepts to cross-functional executive audiences.
• Leverage technology to automate recurring project practices.
• Identify risks to scope or timeline and escalate to leadership.
• Dive deep to resolve blocking issues.

Skills

Program management

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder communication

AI tools knowledge

Education

Master's degree or MBA (business / ops / HR)

Job description

Job ID: 10543980 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Do you want to help shape the future of tax planning? Are you interested in working with innovative businesses like Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Music, Audible?

Amazon is looking for an experienced and result oriented Sr. Program Manager to join the Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Tax Planning Team. As a Sr. Program Manager, you will help develop long-term strategies for tax planning across multiple Amazon digital businesses, while ensuring the highest levels of tax controllership.

This position is focused on standardizing programmatic processes that drive alignment across organizations with varying priorities and ensuring resources are properly allocated to the highest priority in order to maximize impact.

Successful candidates will be well-versed in supporting diverse stakeholder groups at each phase of the program management lifecycle, partnering with Tax Planners, Product Managers, and business partners to deeply understand the upstream and downstream impacts of each release, and ensuring those impacts are well-managed. They will have extensive experience in escalation management, project status reporting, and leadership communication.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong customer obsession and will thrive in ambiguous situations and a fast-paced work environment. They will be a self-starter, a quick learner, a proven results driver, and they will have the ability to efficiently manage various high-priority and visible projects. Most importantly, this person will be at their best in a team that values agility, collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and growth; all in a casual environment where we value fun and personal connection!

Key job responsibilities

Successful candidates will have broad experience in Program Management, Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), and Technology. This will help enable the Sr. PM to facilitate discussions, gather necessary information, uncover opportunities within and across teams, and manage change.

A day in the life

• Drive process improvements; document best practices and hold stakeholders accountable to timelines and deliverables; enable streamlining to achieve operational efficiencies, benchmarking, and development of performance metrics.
• Define processes to gather tax requirements, assess for completeness, and translate for stakeholders who will implement those requirements.
• Present complex concepts to cross-functional executive audiences.
• Leverage technology and investigative mechanisms to automate recurring and standardized project practices to eliminate manual work.
• Identify areas of risk to the program scope or timeline, and escalating to leadership in a timely manner.
• Dive deep where needed to resolve blocking issues.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Knowledge of general AI tools

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, CA, Culver City - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.