Senior Technical Program Manager, Prime Video Experience Team

Company: Amazon
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

Job summary Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on. Prime Video is changing the way millions of customers interact with video content. Amazon believes so deeply in the mission of streaming Video that we've launched our own studio to create original and exclusive content and engaged with the top professional sports leagues around the world like the NFL and the Premier League to deliver compelling live content to Prime members. Prime Video Playback is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to own and drive delivery for high-impact programs in the core playback technology to help users worldwide to enjoy live events, movies and TV shows on mobile devices, living room devices, and the web. The Senior TPM role requires excellent leadership skills, strategic thinking, strong technical expertise, the ability to partner effectively across teams within and outside of Amazon, and the ability to manage high-impact projects. As a member of the team, you’ll need to have the ability to understand the fundamentals of the latest video technology and what it takes to launch large scale video services and features that involve multiple teams within and outside of Prime Video. You will help evolve our architecture with your background in distributed cloud computing while innovating on video technology like encoding. You will drive future technical solutions that will impact how we run Prime Video worldwide. You will also need to frequently engage business, product, and technology leaders and be a strong advocate for our customers. We're a high energy, fast growth business excited to have the opportunity to shape how video is consumed for years to come. If you are interested in leading key strategic programs for Prime Video that have a worldwide impact, enjoy leading and launching products and services that will enable new business opportunities for Prime Video, and delivering innovative and industry leading features to our customers, we'd love to talk with you! Key job responsibilities • Manage important technology programs with broad cross-organizational and/or cross-business impact. You define requirements, negotiate priorities, and deliver the right solutions and mechanisms. • Resolve significantly complex problems and provide a long-term solutions that are as simple as possible. Improve architectural quality, reduces bottlenecks, Operate with autonomy, showing high judgment in decisions that have technical and business implications. Identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems. (e.g., highly complex, ambiguous, extremely complicated, with little to no existing structure, have significant business or security risk or potential for significant impact). Able to represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leaders Adept at building consensus, align teams toward coherent technology strategies. Champion and prioritize new product requirements and features for development Identify short and long-term product opportunities, provide actionable recommendations and influence stakeholders to implement durable solutions. Plan, execute, and monitor program and manage risks Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges for our customers and validate new integration launches A day in the life You will own long-running programs to make Prime Video even more reliable for customers. In that capacity, you will directly own goals with visibility throughout (and beyond) Prime Video. You will own the execution of projects to meet those goals, including communication to senior leadership and stakeholders. You will work with teams across Prime Video and throughout Amazon and AWS to influence organizational roadmaps and strategy. You will drive a portfolio of programs and goals evolving how we playback live events, linear, and VOD content and work on ambiguous challenges. - 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 - 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

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