Sr. Technical Program Manager, Advertising in Live Events

If you love solving big customer problems and have a passion for new technology in the media space, then the Senior Technical Program Manager with Advertising in Live Events is an amazing opportunity for a role that lies at the intersection of your interests. With broadcast agreements around the world including the NFL’s Thursday Night Football in the US and The English Premier League in the UK, Prime Video is delivering the future of Live Sports for our customers. Advertising is crucial to our success in Live Sports and we are endeavoring to build a world-class live sports ad program that benefits our customers, advertisers and league partners with unique, never-been-done-before ad experiences.

Live sports on Amazon allows viewers to watch events on any device -- including laptops, mobile phones, tablets and television -- and across multiple distribution channels including Prime Video, Twitch and other first-party streaming apps. This capability opens up new opportunities for advertising to customers that is more relevant and customized than they get from traditional broadcast television while improving impact for advertisers. In this role, you will own the global roadmap for our live streaming advertising products. You will partner with a wide range of engineering and UX teams across Amazon Advertising and Prime Video to elevate our ad business. You will have the opportunity to deeply understand our playback, ad insertion, ad serving, measurement and campaign management technology stacks and influence the technical path we follow for our program. You will partner with the Live Advertising product management team and help prioritize our roadmap for maximum business impact.

The leader in this role must stay well-informed about trends in live sports broadcasting and advertising, as well as innovations from Amazon’s internal advertising teams. They must address feedback from clients and sales partners and prioritize resources to deliver on engineering commitments. They will establish goals for the organization, will create mechanisms to manage the goals and are responsible for providing visibility across the organization on the program vision, goals and success.

Key job responsibilities
1) Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects
2) Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps, dependency identifications, and resourcing plans
3) Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
4) Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on plans, status, and critical issues
5) Partner as a technical liaison between product and engineering teams

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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 ran