Sr. Production Operations Manager, Live Sports Production

Amazon.com • Culver City, CA

360d • $88,500 - $185,000

About The Position

Come and be a part of Amazon's dynamic Live Sports Production Team! We are looking for an experienced Production Operations lead to oversee multiple and overlapping sports properties through the full project lifecycle. The Production Operations team is responsible for delivering high quality event productions on all global live sports properties to customers worldwide, across all Prime Video product lines and devices. We also support our productions through process improvements, scalability, and various initiatives. We work on designing solutions (tools and mechanisms) to manage and support productions globally so our team can work more efficiently and continue to scale.

Requirements

• 6+ years of budgeting, scheduling and cost reporting experience
• Experience as a producer, production manager, line producer or in production risk management
• 8+ years of experience in production, technical and/or operational planning; including logistical planning related to event production

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading large projects and facilitate group meetings
• Proven track record working with large scale vendors and broadcast media partners; experience negotiating with 3rd party vendors

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end project lifecycle of a property re-start of new property launch, gathering business requirements, implementing workstreams, and developing milestones and launch schedule to ensure successful delivery of event.
• Oversee on-site event production operations including Health & Safety, risk management, and vendor relationships.
• Work closely with the Production Finance team to track and reconcile all production costs, ensuring external vendors and production team are aware of overall production spend.
• Collaborate with Amazon teams (e.g., legal, business affairs, business development, production finance, accounting, and other global operations team) in operationalizing properties and driving synergy as needed.
• Lead regular status updates on project timelines and budgets to senior leadership. Recognize and flag possible issues and blockers, providing timely solutions to resolve issues.
• Seek continuous improvements in execution of existing productions (e.g., recommend necessary changes to operational strategy, seek alignment with necessary stakeholders and implement changes at regular intervals).
• Support the Global Head of Production Ops and the senior Production team in implementing the operational strategy across all Prime Video Live Sports properties. Align regularly with production team across other regions to share best practices and integrate new learnings.

Benefits

• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees