Principal Tech Program Manager, Prime Video & Studios Core Tech

- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of technical 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
- 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/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.
Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. Do you want to innovate and operate at scale, with an impact that you have never had before?

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to drive the roll-out of our "better than broadcast" low latency solution, Sye, across new regions and devices. In this role, you will work with the Sye team and all the Amazon partner teams to deliver the vision of a high-quality, low latency, and perfectly synced viewing experience regardless of location.

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 Prime Video Tech takes you!


Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible with ensuring that our different programs are delivered on time and with an experience quality that delights our customers. To do so, you will be responsible for coordinating work streams across numerous Prime Video teams, report to our leadership team on risks and mitigations and drive alignment for delivery. You will work closely with our technical teams to deep dive and audit technical designs and solutions to ensure short term and long term efficacy of our solutions.

A day in the life
You will independently lead broad cross-organization efforts from the early stages through release. You will be responsible for influencing organization roadmap priorities, system owners, and technical direction. You will own regular communication with senior leadership on technology, dependency management, risk mitigation and program health. You will guide the technical direction and decisions to deliver a solution that meets Amazon high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence.

As a TPM at Amazon, you will also amplify your impact by educating and mentoring other Technical Program Managers around you on program management best-practices and will be actively involved mentoring more junior team members.

About the team
In this role you will be part of the Sye leadership team, reporting to the Head of Sye Streaming Solution. The Sye team is spread across three locations, Stockholm, London and Seattle and you will be working closely with several Prime Video teams both in London and Seattle. The Sye team has a start-up culture and we are very passionate about our solution and providing the best live event customer experience out there.