Program Manager, Live Events, Prime Video Sports Operations

Program Manager Role On Prime Video Live Events Team

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 from Originals and Exclusive 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. Are you interested in shaping the future of sports broadcasting? Do you want to define the next generation of how Amazon customers are watching live sports? If so, you would be the right person for the Program Manager role on the Prime Video Live Events team, leading the expansion of Live Events in North America and Latin America by bringing sports leagues to Prime Video.

Key job responsibilities as the Launch Manager include:

• Leading the execution of taking new and existing live sports events across both 1P and third-party to deliver to the broadest live sports selection for our sports fans.
• Onboarding activities from deal signing to their first live broadcast on Prime Video and maintaining steady state operations post launching ensuring high quality and availability.

Key activities include:

• Collaborating with content acquisition and marketing teams to develop the roadmap for expanding the coverage of live sports.
• Planning, coordinating and tracking cross-functional work streams across product, technology, merchandising and operational teams to bring new sports events to live on Prime Video.
• Collaborating with Product Managers, UX Designers, Production, and Marketing to define how live and on-demand content will be presented to customers on Prime Video.
• Working cross functionally with the content acquisition, product management, engineering, merchandising, and operations teams to document and define initiatives and drive them through execution to launch the sports events on Prime Video.
• Working closely with sports media partners, 3P content aggregators to build Digital Content Supply Chains and continuously improve the processes for publishing sports content.
• Establishing goals, plans and related metrics, managing initiatives and tracking progress to achieve quality improvements and operational efficiency gains.
• Creating reporting and dashboards for key metrics to illustrate progress against goals to support team activities and report to management on weekly/monthly basis.

A day in the life you will define and execute the programs to bring new sports leagues to Prime Video and launch live events. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, resourceful, customer-focused, team oriented, and will have an ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. A successful candidate will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.

About the team, the team's core mission is to manage programs and workflows associated with delivering live content to Amazon customers. This involves interacting with sports media and metadata partners, managing workflows through the publishing process, and defining operational procedures with the goal of bringing highly engaging sports content to Prime Video customers. In addition to continuously driving and improving execution of this core mission, you will work closely with cross-functional counterparts in product management, engineering, content acquisition, operations, and executive teams to ensure the teams and systems are supporting the broader growth of our business, launching new features, developing and growing business opportunities, and enhancing our customer experience.