DescriptionPrime 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.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 Prime Video Tech takes you!The Prime Video Playback team is seeking a Principal Product Manager - Tech (Principal PMT) focused on Delivery Technology and Content Protection. The product leader drives our video playback delivery technologies capabilities. The technology solutions under this charter require leadership skills, strong technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to effectively partner across Amazon as well as externally, with the ability to manage high-impact solutions.We are looking for a resourceful, highly technical, customer-focused Product Leader who can work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. She or he will have a proven track record in end-to-end product ownership and successfully delivering results at scale in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.Key job responsibilitiesDefine the Playback Delivery Technology as well as Content Protection strategic vision, own the roadmap, and drive teams to execute best to support our customers, the business, and Prime VideoWrite and deliver technical requirement documents and artifacts required to enable the development of products, features, and infrastructureMaintain and continuously prioritize backlog based on data, customer, and business needs.Write narratives to advocate and justify product launches and change requestBuild healthy working relationships with key stakeholders and cross-functional business partnersPartner with the engineering team to define new experiences and launch cross-functionallyContribute to and develop the team's processes and mechanisms.Regularly participate in design reviews and other meetings with engineers and contribute to the discussion to ensure a high-quality barDefine metrics (e.g., KPIs) to track adoption, solution performance, and any variance against goalsAbout the teamPlayback brings the technologies, tools, and operations to stream Live, Linear, and VOD to all devices globally. We deliver a better experience than broadcast. We innovate to efficiently manage our scale. We acquire the audio/video from partners, encode the video, insert ads, enforce policy, measure the picture quality, vend playback resources, manage the storage of the content, detect issues in real-time, deliver the assets over the Internet, and flawlessly play the video. We bring high-quality streaming for VOD, Live and Linear content as well as ads while using the fewest bits possible.Basic Qualifications
2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
8+ years of technical product or program management experience
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics
Bachelor's degree
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
Experience technical product management
Expertise in delivering high-quality online video across delivery technologies that efficiently distributes video content to users around the world including Traffic management, caching, CDN selection and configuration and Security.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
Sounds understanding of video playback with encoding, video analytics, streaming servers, and video players.
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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.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.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/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.
