Sr Technical Program Manager, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

About the role

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.

Key job responsibilities

• Work deeply with engineering and science teams on the design, implementation, and drive the delivery of large scale recommendations systems that power all Prime Video surfaces
• Lead initiatives spanning across teams of software engineers, designing and building innovative software solutions for our customers
• Be an excellent leader and bridge across various parts of Tech, Product, and business

A day in the life

• Craft a goal update for a key goal that goes up to our VP
• Attend an engineering standup and help unblock a key milestone
• Update the experimental roadmap with updates on hundreds of experiments in flight across the org
• Work through a launch-blocker with some engineers
• Talk with Product managers about the requirements for an upcoming project
• Respond to some emails and work through the release strategy for an upcoming project

About the team

We are a team that is passionate about using Machine Learning and experiments to recommend the right content to every customer at the right time. We love experimentation and learning how we can improve the quality of our recommendations. As a TPM, you will work across the team and the broader PV organization to deliver meaningful change. We move fast, seek impact and don't forget to have fun on the way. Come help shape this important business for Prime Video and change the streaming industry.

Basic qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 3+ 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