Technical Program Manager III, Backlot Source

Amazon • Culver City, CA

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About The Position

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television that are
offered on Prime Video? Do you want to define the next generation of what Amazon
customers are watching? Passionate about building, owning and operating
massively scalable systems that solve the complex problems involved in the
digital media supply chain? If this sounds like the type of experience you'd
like to help build - apply here and let's chat!

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to drive critical
initiatives across the Amazon Studios' Media Supply Chain (MSC) program. MSC is
transforming the end-end content post-production life cycle - including
ingestion, global localization, asset management, packaging and distribution,
into an industry-leading cloud-based solution called Backlot Source. This
product encompasses the complete content lifecycle across five core functional
areas: Source Plan (project planning and localization workflow orchestration),
Source Fulfillment (vendor management and work order execution), Source Library
(asset repository and discovery for all post-production assets), Source
Validation (quality control and compliance testing), and Source Distribution
(both first-party Prime Video delivery and third-party licensing to 120+
customer destinations). The platform manages hundreds of petabytes of content in
current inventory while eliminating manual overhead and reducing delivery
timelines. By 2027, Backlot Source will unify millions of asset records across
the MGM library, legacy Prime Video originals, marketing content, and digital
archives into a single source of truth, enabling automated content inspection,
AI-powered localization workflows, and scaled distribution that supports
hundreds of millions in annual licensing revenue while achieving
industry-leading localization timelines for all Amazon Original titles.

In this role, you will be accountable for the overall strategy and execution of
a large program with considerable impact across multiple teams within a VP
organization. You will own programs such as: end-to-end post-production content
type expansions across multiple regions and global localization workflow
optimization supporting multiple studios stakeholder groups and external
vendors. You will own organizational roadmap including OP1/OP2 contributions.
You will operate independently with limited guidance, defining program mission,
vision, and tenets while driving teams inside and outside your organization to
deliver critical solutions.

As a TPM III, you will work both tactically and strategically, making trade-offs
between short-term delivery needs and long-term architectural requirements. You
will understand the systems in your program space including their limitations,
scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural
decisions. You will influence team technical priorities and business strategy
through data-driven contributions, enlisting SDMs, Senior and Principal
Engineers to ensure architectures scale to match business requirements. Your
work will drive simplification and efficiency in engineering processes and
architectures to unblock innovation and increase speed of delivery across the
organization.

Requirements

• 6+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership

Nice To Haves

• 8+ 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 a variety of digital media workflows and post production
• Experience with AWS technologies

Responsibilities

• Manage large, complex technology initiatives delivering critical solutions, significant improvements, or new mechanisms across the Backlot Source program.
• Own the overall strategy and execution of projects from concept through delivery, working with multiple teams across the Amazon Studios and Prime Video organization.
• Define program mission, vision, and tenets; set objectives and drive improvements quantified with metrics
• Manage roadmaps for the organization, including contributing to OP1/OP2 narratives and ownership of organizational goals
• Understand system architecture, limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural decisions
• Partner with engineering teams to influence technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions
• Drive mindful discussions leading to crisp decisions, ensuring business and technical stakeholder needs are aligned
• Oversee gaps between teams, processes, and system architectures to produce optimal results
• Work with multiple engineering teams, influencing system owners and architecture decisions
• Communicate effectively with Directors and VPs through narratives, presentations, and operational reviews
• Build consensus among discordant views and lead resolution of contentious issues
• Partner successfully with customers, stakeholders, and engineering teams across Studios and Prime Video
• Create plans with clear, measurable success criteria and communicate progress and outcomes effectively
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
• Make smart trade-offs between time, effort, features, and short-term vs. long-term needs
• Streamline and eliminate excess process while creating predictable process paths
• Drive launch readiness, risk reviews, and cross-team alignment
• Own CPR (Critical Program Review), MBR (Monthly Business Review), and QBR (Quarterly Business Review) processes and updates for the Media Supply Chain program.
• Drive technical approaches, execution strategy, hardware launches, and software rollouts
• Handle stakeholder and escalation management.

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: Mid Level