Senior Technical Program Manager , Prime Video

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex programs that enhance digital video experiences. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with engineering and product teams to drive innovative software solutions, ensuring seamless customer engagement and personalization on a leading streaming platform. With opportunities for growth and the chance to work on challenging projects, this position promises a rewarding career path in a fast-paced environment. Join a team that values diverse perspectives and is committed to delivering exceptional results for customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical product or program management.
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead large programs spanning multiple business units.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver technology initiatives.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Software Development

Project Management

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager , Prime Video

Job ID: 2903033 | Amazon.com Services LLC - A57

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

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!

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 organization 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.

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.