Software Development Manager Prime Video Sports

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of movies and television Do you want to help 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 including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to addon 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 fastpaced 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. If this sounds exciting to you please read on.

We are looking for an exceptional Software Development Manager to embark on our journey to build a Prime Video Sports tech team in Israel from ground up. Our team will focus on developing products to allow for personalizing the customers experience and providing them realtime insights and revolutionary experiences using Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML). You will get a chance to work on greenfield and largescale engineering and science projects and a rare opportunity to be one of the founders of the Israel Prime Video Sports tech team in Israel.

Key job responsibilities
Hire and mentor highly talented engineers.
Drive charter and roadmaps with your team management and principal stakeholders.
Utilize data science and ML to develop products that deliver great experiences for customers.
Work with peer Managers and Sr. Managers to get alignment on charter and cross team projects.


About the team
In September 2018 Prime Video launched its first fullscale live streaming experience to worldwide Prime customers with NFL Thursday Night Football. That was just the start. Now Amazon has exclusive broadcasting rights to major leagues like NFL Thursday Night Football Tennis major like RolandGarros and English Premium League to list few and are broadcasting live events across 30 sports worldwide. Prime Video is expanding not just the breadth of live content that it offers but the depth of the experience. This is a transformative opportunity the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video and the live streaming experience of customers everywhere.

Experience in engineering team management
Experience in engineering
Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product and program management teams
Superior verbal and written communication and presentation skills ability to convey rigorous engineering/science concepts and considerations to nonexperts

Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
Demonstrated ability to translate strategic initiatives into detailed operating plans

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