Sr. Technical Program Manager - IMDb TV

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Arlington
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

The IMDb TV team is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. Our mission is to build earth's most customer centric ad supported premium free video service and make it trivially easy for hundreds of millions of customers to enjoy. We have learned that customer's love IMDb TV so we are looking for a Technical program Manager who can build on our early success, pioneer new programs for customers, and help define our future.

As a member of a rapidly growing IMDb TV team, you will spend your time managing critical projects and as a technical leader for initiatives related to launching new ad products to help advertiser customers and expand the IMDb TV ad portfolio. You will play a key role in building software products and features from the ground up. You will be exposed to a wide range of technologies and systems. You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit tens of millions of Amazon.com customers.

This is very much Day 1 for IMDb TV so you would be joining an entrepreneurial and pioneering team that is building from scratch.

NOTE - this position can also be based out of Austin, NYC, Culver City area and Boulder

• 5+ years of technical program management experience working directly with software engineering teams
• Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
• Experience and knowledge of video development and advertisement tech (e.g., media container, codec formats, streaming protocols, encoding tools)
• Experience in releasing significant modules for complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Knowledge of professional software development best practices for the full software development life cycle, including development processes like Scrum, Kanban, Agile etc.
• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience designing and developing robust and scalable software and services
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

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