Senior Design Program Manager, Prime Video
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
The Amazon Prime Video UX team is seeking a self-motivated ownership-minded and nimble Senior Design Program Manager to be a force-multiplier for our UX Design & Research team amplifying our efforts and impact. We design innovative experiences allowing customers around the world to discover purchase and watch the latest digital video content live and on demand.
You will collaborate closely with designers researchers engineers product managers and other program managers leading projects throughout the planning design and development cycle. Your emphasis will be on planning and prioritization of design deliverables resource management schedule tracking mitigating project risks and collaborating with design leadership to deliver innovative solutions across workstreams. You will be a key part of a UX Design and Research team collaborating across all aspects of the Prime Video service. Come build the future of entertainment with us!
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with UX leadership in key project decision-making including: requirements gathering scheduling design roadmap management resource allocation and coordination of teams and reviews
- Program manage key Design projects
- Lead design delivery by managing team backlogs and removing obstacles coordinating reviews with stakeholders and leadership communicating team status and empowering designers to own their timelines
- Act as a bridge between UX Engineering and Product Management (PM) teams and other cross functional team members connecting various groups and making sure interdependencies are understood and planned for
- Anticipate bottlenecks provide escalation management and balance the customer needs versus business goals and technical constraints
- Implement durable and repeatable processes and tools to help us prioritize plan and manage multiple parallel projects across the team and our stakeholders
- Standardize socialize and continuously improve our user-centered design process
- Enable creative solutions by leveraging design acumen high judgement and knowledge of business and customer experience best practices
- Define success metrics and be responsible for ensuring their implementation for all our work
- Promote a sense of transparency visibility and community among our team
- Navigate and prioritize evolving initiatives in a fast-paced environment
About the team
Prime Videos vision is to be the worlds most loved premium video service and in doing so to become the default entertainment hub globally for customers. The PV User Experience (PVUX) teams role is to reduce complexity and design fun easy-to-use apps where customers love to watch our content.
- 6 years of design program management experience
- Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
- Experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements
- Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (agile to waterfall)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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 CA Culver City - 129500.00 - 175100.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 142400.00 - 192600.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 129500.00 - 175100.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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