How often have you had an opportunity to be at ground zero of a disruptive, fast-growing, and evolutionary global Amazon service? How frequently do you get to start from the foundation and solve customer needs at a global scale in a fast-growing entertainment streaming industry? At Prime Video, we are pioneering a new generation of digital supply chain at a remarkable speed to accelerate our market position and global reach. If this sounds interesting, come build the future of streaming entertainment with us!

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 and global environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for a Sr. Localization Program Manager to lead the localization quality and publishing process to be efficient and scalable within Prime Video. You will lead a strategic program by coordinating across product, operations, localization vendors, and business stakeholders to drive efficiency and simplification for global customers. In this role, you will be committed to expanding our strategy and definition for global localization of content within Prime Video; employing alignment with stakeholders and drive problem solving for inefficiencies in current workflows. You will add scalable measurement and quality tracking across the digital supply chain that provides transparency and areas of opportunity across the lifecycle of localization assets. The successful candidate will need to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Be the subject matter expert for your assigned program; partnering with localization stakeholders and regions to evolve the workflows
- Ensure a consistent global experience through application and ongoing iteration of our localization strategies
- Define program value propositions, advantages, and limitations
- Be the liaison between various technical, business, and development teams to drive both proactive and reactive customer experiences solutions
- Own and support global cross-team coordination, project management, and be able to swiftly prioritize and multi task based on severity level and strong business judgement
- Contribute to development of localization standards, systems, and best practices
- Have a passion for continuously improving the customer experience
Possess flexibility and have a track record of delivering results in a fast-paced and highly ambiguous work environment


About the team
Our mission is to make available to Prime Video customers the largest and highest quality, and most enriched catalog of video content anywhere in the world. We aim to create a friction-free self-service delivery experience that meets the needs of all studio partners regardless of size, budget, location, language, or technical capability. By doing so, we remove distribution limitations and level the playing field across studios, so every title is available to every customer worldwide and the best content wins.- Experience with localization program or project management within digital supply chain
- Experience working with localization vendors, production teams and dubbing workflows
- Knowledge and familiarity with DAM (digital asset management) systems and familiar with digital video file formats including but not limited to the following: digital master files, Mezz (Mezzanine) files, and compressed deliverables
- Have deep technical ability, familiarity with industry digital delivery standards, specifications, and delivery formats with the capacity to acquire new technology concepts quickly
- Experience managing projects across cross-function teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience managing, analyzing, presenting, and communicating relevant results to senior management- Experience working directly with engineering teams in the digital supply chain
- Deep understanding and familiarity of componentized based packages such as MDDF (MovieLabs Digital Distribution Framework), including identification of content using EIDR (Entertainment ID Registry), delivery of content metadata using MEC (Media Entertainment Core Metadata) and MMC (Media Manifest Core), and delivery of availability metadata using EMA Avails
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and marketing/business counterparts to deliver online products/services
- Advanced ability to draw insights from data and clearly communicate them (verbal/written) to stakeholders and executives as required
- Be self-driven and able to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or imperfect data

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