Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites, other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of Fire TVs, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a world-class advertising team with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place!
Smart TVs and Streaming Media Players are everywhere. Our goal at Video Advertising is to create a better user experience on these devices while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale. Our services have differentiated assets in our consumer & audience insights and exclusive content which position us well for the future. We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to help foster nascent ideas into scalable products and launch them on a variety of streaming platforms.
Key job responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership: Drive the end-to-end delivery of large-scale programs such as interactivity video ads, ensuring alignment with Amazon Advertising’s long-term business and technical goals.
• Stakeholder Influence: Partner with senior leaders, and business stakeholders to align on priorities, drive consensus, and deliver impactful solutions that scale globally.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Define KPIs and metrics to measure program success, identify areas for improvement, and provide transparent, actionable updates to leadership through detailed reporting and insights.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the key connection point between engineering, business teams, ensuring alignment, effective communication, and seamless execution.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure program objectives are met without compromising quality or timelines.
• Leadership Development: Mentor and guide other TPMs and cross-functional team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Solution Architecture: Collaborate with engineering, product management, and science to design and implement scalable, and efficient system architectures.
A day in the life
As a Principal Technical Program Manager on this team, you will lead the technical planning, coordination, architecture, and implementation of multiple programs across Ad Format organization. You will manage the lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, documentation and measurement) of software teams that are delivering for the programs you manage. You will work alongside Creatives, Designers, Program Managers, Product Managers, and engineers. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.
About the team
Our team delivers outsized performance for Streaming TV (STV) ads by augmenting the STV ad stream with information, actions, and full funnel experiences that help increase viewer’s attention and engagement. We build consumer experiences that attract advertiser investment, and connect entertainment with shopping. In line with this vision, we are focusing on 1) STV ad augmentation, inventing new, personalized customer experience that feature key information to viewers, and 2) Interactivity, addressing opportunities to deepen viewers' engagement with STV ads.
