Principal Technical Product Manager Advertising, Amazon - Amazon

Description 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? 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. The Prime Video Playback team is seeking a Principal Product Manager - Tech (Principal PMT) focused on Advertising. The product leader drives our video playback advertising capabilities. The technology solutions under this charter require leadership skills, strong technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to effectively partner across Amazon, with the ability to manage high-impact solutions. We are looking for a resourceful, highly technical, customer-focused Product Leader who can work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. She or he will have a proven track record in end-to-end product ownership and successfully delivering results at scale in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Key job responsibilities - Define the Playback Advertising strategic vision, own the roadmap, and drive teams to execute best to support our customers, the business, and Prime Video - Write and deliver technical requirement documents and artifacts required to enable the development of products, features, and infrastructure - Maintain and continuously prioritize backlog based on data, customer, and business needs. - Write narratives to advocate and justify product launches and change request - Build healthy working relationships with key stakeholders and cross-functional business partners - Partner with the Advertising team to define new experiences and launch cross-functionally - Contribute to and develop the team's processes and mechanisms. - Regularly participate in design reviews and other meetings with engineers and contribute to the discussion to ensure a high-quality bar - Define metrics (e.g., KPIs) to track adoption, performance, and any variance against goals About the team Playback brings the technologies, tools, and operations to stream Live, Linear, and VOD to all devices globally. We deliver a better experience than broadcast. We innovate to efficiently manage our scale. We acquire the audio/video from partners, encode the video, insert ads, enforce policy, measure the experience, vend playback resources, manage the storage of the content, detect issues in real-time, deliver the video over the Internet, and flawlessly play the video. We bring high-quality streaming for content and ads while using the fewest bits possible. 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 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. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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.