Principal Product Manager Tech, Prime Video

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

We are hiring an experienced Principal Product Manager to run our media pipeline. In this role, you will own the services that allow us to receive video and audio content from our partners, review it to ensure that it meets our high quality bar, and process it so it's available to customer. You will deploy state of the art AI tools that enable us to inspect every title and identify any issues that can affect our customers. This role is critical to ensuring high quality of content for customers!

Prime Video is shaping the future of global digital video entertainment. Our vision is to delight streamers by offering the freshest, richest, and most defect-free catalog of content anywhere. We are looking for a data-savvy, strategic, and analytical Principal Product Manager to work on the content licensing technology of our supply chain. In this cross-functional role you will help define and execute the strategy for products and services that drive defect and on time delivery of high quality video content to customers. You will collaborate with data science, engineering, operations, other product managers, and executive teams to bring products to market, develop and grow business opportunities, and enhance our platform capabilities.

The duties will include formulating a business vision for your product domain, gathering business and functional requirements from internal customers and end-users, and translating those requirements into technical specifications to build robust, scalable, and supportable solutions that work well with a range of complex systems. The PMT serves as the technical as well as the business lead throughout the entire development lifecycle including scoping, planning, conceptualizing, designing, testing, documenting, and shipping the product to the end customer keeping in mind issues around tech debt, scalability, performance and latency, and compatibility with technology and business goals.

Key job responsibilities
- Define and execute toward the long-term strategy for the digital supply chain
- Work closely with data science and engineering teams to prioritize and deliver the roadmap
- Working closely with Business Intelligence to analyze business trends and make data-backed decisions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including other product managers, partner management, and leadership to influence and drive the long-term strategy
- Create business requirements, develop solutions, and socialize them across functions and teams
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle

This position may be located in Seattle or Los Angeles.

If you enjoy defining and delivering first-class customer experiences, working with data science and tech teams, and have a passion for video, come join us!

About the team
Our vision is to be the world’s most reliable, fastest digital video catalog. We provide partners with the best way to distribute their content and streaming customers with a consistent, reliable experience that works in any device, anywhere.

Our team:
- Is obsessed with making things work for the streaming customer and the content partner
- Makes data-backed decisions
- Encourages continuous growing by supporting each together
- Builds trust across our organization through transparency and communication - 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
- 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience technical product management - Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Culver City - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 179,900.00 - 243,400.00 USD annually