Amazon

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

Amazon$148K — $201K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 3+ years of software development experience
  • 5+ years of technical program management with software engineering teams
  • Proven experience managing programs across cross-functional teams
  • Experience in system-level technical design and evaluation

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive product features in collaboration with Software Development Managers.
  • Interface between product owners and development teams, defining user stories and technical solutions.
  • Establish effective collaboration with partners across Prime Video and Amazon.com.
  • Break down requirements into technical execution plans and track progress.
  • Make informed trade-offs to ensure software is shipped without compromising quality.
  • Evangelize the project across teams and build relationships to leverage existing technologies.
  • Represent the technical team to senior leadership regarding project status.

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and supplemental life plans
  • Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health Support
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
Want to transform the way people watch Live Sports and TV? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems that deliver industry leading experiences to sports fans across NFL, NBA and more? Looking forward to work in a start-up mode with a team of highly competent software engineers and Product leaders on the latest technologies? Are you looking for an inclusive team, where you feel safe to be yourself, to share your ideas openly, to experiment, fail and learn, and where you help influence decisions that shape the team's path forward? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you. 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 wide variety of devices. If you're a technical program manager, there's a home for you in Seattle working on Prime Video Sports & Live TV. Our leaders are great teachers, our engineers are world-class, and our products are fun. What will you do? You will own and drive product features partnering with SDMs in our Seattle,WA; Austin, TX; and Arlington, VA teams. You'll collaborate with Prime Video teams including Catalog, Commerce, Offers, X-Ray, Prime Video Channels, Store Front Automation, devices and more. You will look around corners, anticipate bottlenecks, and use technical judgement to land complex programs for our business. 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 -Be a guardian of world-class customer experience for your deliverables: continually raise the bar on functionality, flow, consistency, usability, and simplicity -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. -Own engagement and build mechanisms to collaborate effectively with the partners across Prime Video, Amazon.com, and other critical external partners -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. -Help make the right feature trade-offs to ship software without compromising customer experience and business relevance -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 -Represent the technical team to senior leadership across the company 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 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 - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

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