Jobs · Information Technology · Washington

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Prime Video & Studios CoreTech Central Team

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios · Seattle, WA · 5 days ago
Information TechnologyFull-time

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver complex programs with cross-organizational impact, operating across multiple organizations within Prime Video
  • Drive clarity in ambiguous spaces where the problem, strategy, and solution path may not yet be fully defined
  • Define program scope, requirements, and long-term plans for initiatives with high leadership visibility
  • Identify gaps and risks across systems and teams; design simplified solutions that address constraints and deliver the best outcome
  • Drive technical decisions and architectural trade-offs across engineering teams, representing benefits and challenges of each approach
  • Partner with science and engineering teams to integrate ML/AI capabilities into cross-domain programs
  • Influence stakeholders and partner teams through data-driven judgment to align on the right goals and priorities
  • Build consensus across organizations, presenting complex decisions and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership
  • Establish and drive program mechanisms that ensure consistent delivery and long-term operational excellence
  • Clear roadblocks with the right resources, escalating when appropriate to maintain program momentum
  • Simplify and drive the use of best practices across the TPM and engineering communities
  • Mentor and develop other TPMs on the team

A day in the life

Your primary focus is driving complex, cross-team programs from ambiguity to delivery. On any given day, you might be defining requirements with engineering leads, clearing roadblocks across partner teams, or presenting program trade-offs to senior leadership. You will work closely with science and product teams to integrate ML/AI capabilities into customer-facing experiences. You will balance tactical execution with strategic thinking, making trade-offs between short and long-term needs.

About the team

The Cross Functional Central Program Team drives Prime Video's most critical, ambiguous, and complex initiatives across the organization. We are not embedded within any single team. Instead, we operate across organizational boundaries, partnering with engineering, product, science, and business stakeholders to deliver outcomes for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Our mission is to accelerate Prime Video's ability to deliver at scale through central mechanisms like Operational Planning and AI Adoption. We remove roadblocks, manage alignment across leadership, and obsess over Deliver Results, Ownership, Bias for Action, Invent and Simplify, Disagree and Commit, and Earn Trust.

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
  • Experience with AI/ML technologies

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