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Principal Technical Program Manager, Prime Video Delivery

Amazon

Amazon

IT, Operations
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Friday, August 2, 2024

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Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members in 25 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.

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!

In this role you will lead the effort to secure internet capacity for our most high-velocity live and video on demand events Worldwide. You will work with Prime Video technical teams and CDN/ISP partners to secure, configure, and delivery capacity for all our world-wide events. You will collaborate with other teams within Delivery to define and execute on the capacity strategy. You will communicate with engineering teams throughout Prime Video and Amazon and with our executives to provide transparency on our capacity plans.

Key job responsibilities
Define/document and execute on our organization's worldwide capacity strategy.
Work closely with internal stakeholders and outside partners to request capacity and track its delivery.
Drive think big initiatives to identify ways to improve our delivery of content to customers, improve QoE, and drive efficiencies in our delivery stack.
Manage other TPMs located internationally.



A day in the life
Attend relevant standups to assess status of projects impacting capacity strategy.
Meet with CDN and ISP partners to track delivery.
Review upcoming events and cross-check against our available capacity.
Update leadership on relevant program statuses. People manage your TPM leads.

About the team
Prime Video Delivery is the team responsible for orchestrating the best content delivery experience for Prime Video customers. Whether a request is for video-on-demand or a live event we strive to have sufficient capacity available for customers so they have the highest quality viewing experience with zero buffering.

About Amazon Prime Video:
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Do you want to invent, disrupt and redefine what entertainment means for fans, creators, and communities all around the globe?

As part of the Prime Video team, you’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. Also, you’ll get 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 creatives, technologists, marketing professionals and so much more, you can decide where a career with Prime Video takes you!