Live sports on Amazon will allow customers to watch events on any device, including televisions, 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 expansion and onboarding 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 and Prime Video Advertising teams to prioritize our roadmap for maximum business impact.
Key job responsibilities
• Track Prime Video’s global property rights acquisition
• Establish the roadmap of technical expansion to new regions, countries and properties
• Coordinate the development timelines across several large engineering organizations to deliver on strict timelines
• Act as mentor and role model for other members of the team
• Interface with finance to roll up team budgets and resource requests
• Work with cross functional product leaders to drive execution of an ambitious roadmap
• Be the voice of the team across multiple layers of the organization and drive multi-year planning activities
• Manage executive communications, preparing documents, scheduling debriefs and ensuring a cohesive message
A day in the life
You will work with a program manager partner in our team to mechanize the tracking of new rights packages Prime Video is considering acquiring. You will coordinate across Prime Video, Live Events and Advertising infrastructure technology teams on prioritizing the technical work required to onboard new properties including driving for automation and expansion of ad innovations. You will establish mechanisms for driving completion of all aspects of the various development roadmaps, sharing progress with leaders across Amazon and escalating where required to ensure we deliver the best outcomes for viewers, advertisers and our business.
About the team
We are the Advertising in Live Events team and our mission is to build the most advanced Live Event advertising offering for brands to reach viewers in the most relevant and least disruptive way possible. We aim to bring digital advertising capabilities to a traditionally linear advertising space and to make advertising in live sports available to all advertisers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/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.