Program Manager - Production, Brand Video Studio

Job Description

Job summary
*This role can sit in LA or NYC*
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-Commerce and Advertising, offering a rich array of digital and video advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers across our owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, 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 rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place!

Key job responsibilities
* Manage end to end workflows of video production with 3rd party production companies, ensuring videos produced are delivered on time, within scope, are policy compliant and meet the creative bar.
* Translate voice of the customer feedback into production, program and product requirements
* Collaborate with stakeholders across product, sales, services and operations teams
* Work cross-functionally to manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer experiences
* Contribute to vision, metrics, goals and performance of video programs
* Communicate project statuses daily, flagging and troubleshooting potential issues
* Remove roadblocks to production
* Archive and deliver final assets

We are looking for someone who has experience with video production as well as project management.

A day in the life
Our team's mandate is to be customer obsessed building brands with video content creation programs using our third-party partnerships and in-house video teams. Our current program(s) are defining and delivering full video creation capabilities for advertisers. As a video program production manager, you'll oversee the video production process with 3rd party production companies, coordinating all production activities and operations. You will be responsible for monitoring the production processes, ensuring each video project is completed on time, within budget and compliant with our policies in an effective and efficient manner is key. You will partner with program, product and account teams on evolving brand production mechanisms and processes including scorecards, 'creative bars' and creative best practices based on Amazon specific requirements to help emerging advertisers reach new customers with video. This includes a understanding of video production, media management and post production pipelines (including attendance of kick-off-calls, briefs, concepts, and feedback related to editorial post-production), along with project management experience. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means anticipating bottlenecks, making trade-offs and balancing the needs of various key stakeholders.

About the team
*ABOUT THE HIRING GROUP*
Our team's mandate is to build brand video production programs using our third-party partnerships and in-house video teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management
* Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
* Proven years experience in cross-functional program or project management
* Experience owning creative strategy and end-to-end video delivery
* Experience defining and executing against program requirements
* Video advertising and advertising technology experience
* Able to analyze data and derive business insights

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Dedicated experience as a Video Producer or Video Campaign Manager
* Experience owning production strategy and end to end delivery
* Proven experience delivering final video production for advertising
* Experience with video localization and transcreation for multiple markets, cultures and languages
* Passionate about advertising and new media
* Experience in streaming video or AVOD
* Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a communications or media field

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d85n26-3-145-77-114-42 in your application.