Key job responsibilities:
In this role, you will partner closely with applied scientists, product teams, and platform engineers to define and deliver highly extensible systems that fuel personalized discovery at scale. you will lead the technical strategy and architecture of Prime Video's end-to-end personalization stack - spanning data ingestion, feature engineering, training and serving platform, candidate retrieval, multi-stage ranking, dynamic content grouping, whole page optimization, and orchestration. Your work will shape how millions of customers discover content they love, optimizing for engagement, retention, and long-term customer value.
You will bring clarity to ambiguity, complexity, ROI, planning, and trade-off etc that dramatically improves the agility, usability, and extensibility of our ML solutions. Your technical leadership will shape the future of AI/ML across Prime Video, unlocking generative and ML models that personalize content for hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.
Key job 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, ML/AI fluency and large-scale data processing.
- Understand the architecture and design limitations of the existing Prime Video systems, ML models, 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/program management practices, driving crisp decision-making and proactive risk mitigation.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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, WA, SEATTLE - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
