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Description

IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities reaching an audience of more than 250 million unique visitors per month. IMDb sits at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology inside the world’s most innovative and consumer-centric company – Amazon. IMDb employees enjoy the benefits of working for Amazon with the autonomy of working on a small, nimble team.

We are looking for a Sr Technical Program Manager (TPM) who is capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and has a real ability to get things done. ED&D supports both legacy and emergent technologies to meet customer need and in this role you will design and deliver innovative solutions that enable simplification, efficiency, and scale. You will be involved with developing ML and GenAI solutions to help scale automation, risk management, and customer support. You will be a strong operational process leader, driving consistency and simplification across engineering teams. Strong partnership with multiple product, business, and technology teams across IMDb and Amazon will be critical to success in this role. This role will require you to drive alignment and make high-judgment recommendations, including difficult tradeoffs with implications beyond your immediate team.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

1) Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects

2) Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps, dependency identifications, and resourcing plans

3) Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines

4) Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on plans, status, and critical issues

5) Partner as a technical liaison between business, operational, product, and engineering teams

6) Partner with engineering to drive operational excellence

About the team

IMDb’s Entertainment Data & Discovery (ED&D) is We’re responsible for the acquisition, accuracy, and availability of all IMDb data that drives IMDb experiences in addition to making that data available to hundreds of partners both inside and outside of Amazon. We are also the people, services, and process that protect and support professional and fan customers alike. ED&D’s mission is to be the trusted steward of entertainment information, unparalleled in accuracy and relevance, fulfilling today's needs and anticipating tomorrow's demand. We also happen to be pretty cool to work with.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in technical product or program management

• 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 managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

• Experience working directly with engineering teams

• Experience in system design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management

• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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