Principal Product Manager Tech, In Playback Discovery, Prime Video Viewer Experience

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Description
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.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment?

Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers.

You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied.

You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers.

With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

You will be responsible for ensuring that customers never leave Prime Video player to find their next show, game or LinearTV station.

This experience is one of the top business drivers in Prime Video.

It is an opportunity to ensure customers have the best, lean-back bingeing experience.

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of Linear TV stations with their favorite sitcoms, sports, movies and TV shows, with and without ads — all available to watch on hundreds of devices.

In this role, you will ensure that all these experiences are cohesive and easy to use.

You will have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver Prime Video's in-playback discovery experience.

Prime Video's scale and selection is unprecedented, so you will get an opportunity to work on fast-paced and challenging projects where you get to define a customer experience that will be used by millions of viewers, across 100s of devices (Living Room and Mobile), in 250+ countries.

You will participate in developing the strategy and vision and create a product roadmap to execute on that vision.

This role is inherently cross-functional; you will work closely with engineering, project management, design, operations, finance, legal, business development, customer service, content acquisition, and executive teams to bring products to market.

You will develop and grow product opportunities, and enhance our customer experience.

We are looking for a hands-on leader who is highly analytical, resourceful, customer focused, and team oriented.

You have a consistent track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.

You are comfortable presenting your point of view to influence stakeholders and senior leadership.

You excel through innovation, creativity, and attention to detail.

You are a collaborator who flourishes in a large organization.

You have experience working directly with software engineers to deliver customer facing technology products.

You are technically savvy and can weigh in on the pros and cons of a technology choice while providing your opinion on trade-offs.

This role can be located in Seattle, WA or Los Angeles, CA.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of the Prime Video customers and the current viewer experiences.

Experience running voice of the customer programs to guide product decisions.
- Develop a thorough understanding of the digital video market segments, and continually assess the competitive landscape and emerging industry trends.
- Partner with key stakeholders to define the product vision, strategy, roadmap and supporting metrics required to deliver and enhance a best in class digital video customer experience.
- Own the development of detailed product requirements documents.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and project management teams to deliver on the product roadmap.
- Drive projects, products, and feature launches with other teams both inside and outside of the Prime Video team including: marketing, content acquisition, legal, finance, customer service, and operations.

About the team
Prime Video Global App Experience team are responsible for building simple, intuitive, fast, responsive and personalized streaming experience for Prime Video customers WW, for web, mobile and living room devices.

Our goal is to make Prime Video a daily destination where customers want to come to watch their favorite shows.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $161,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .

This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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