Senior Technical Program Manager, Prime Video Sports

Amazon • Austin, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Prime Video Sports is revolutionizing how customers enjoy live sports. We are expanding the breadth of live content including Thursday Night Football, and NBA, and the depth of the sports fan experience. This is a transformative opportunity, a chance to be in the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video and the live streaming experience of customers everywhere. We emphasize work-life harmony and a fun work environment as we deliver delight to sports fans.

We seek an experienced and motivated technical program management leader to deliver critical programs delighting Prime Video Sports fans. In this role you will be responsible for managing complex projects in Sports Data Platform, Partner Integrations, and Customer Outreach platforms, tracking dependencies, and launching features collaborating with our internal stakeholders and teams.

You will work across organizational boundaries to build relationships, influence partner team roadmaps, track multiple programs, bring visibility to stakeholders, and deliver results to customers. You are comfortable dealing with technically complex, and ambiguous projects. You will participate in technical discussions, discuss trade-offs, and partner with the Engineering Managers to come up with a delivery plan. If you enjoy operating in a startup-like environment, working very closely across product, tech, science and marketing, to launch and scale products that have the potential to be game changers - this could be the perfect role for you.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver high-visibility programs across Customer Conversions, Partner Integrations, and Sports Data Platform teams
• Create mechanisms to track programs, report progress, unblock software development teams, and execute on goals
• Manage partner team relationships, influence their roadmap and priorities to deliver dependent components for PV Sports
• Understand high-level technical architecture, and participate in technical discussions with the team
• Work closely with the software engineering team to address their pain points and remove bottlenecks
• Send timely updates including monthly newsletters to leadership bringing visibility to high-profile programs
• Balance diving deep and resolving issues yourself, and escalating for help.
• Be comfortable adopting and driving AI best practices in the org

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed