What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Mgr - Tech, AWS Elemental Services position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
AWS Elemental is the world-leader in video processing products. We are looking for an experienced Product Management professional to define the future vision of our video encoding product offerings. By joining Elemental, you will be a part of supplying the best and most consistent high performance for the broadest set of feature-rich applications. You will be at the forefront of delivering customer applications and content securely anywhere in the world.
We are looking for a PMT-ES who is passionate about solving customers’ problems such as enabling AI features for both live events and video-on-demand, understands video workflows, has an ability to advocate / influence the media industry, and is interested in exploring novel ways of improving customer video experiences. This PMT-ES has demonstrated success in turning ambiguous customer needs into successful products. Candidates will be comfortable working closely with and across agile teams. This is a high visibility, high impact role that will interact with all levels of AWS leadership. The right person is naturally customer centric and thrives in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and business judgment, video background, and solid communication and writing skills. Bring your passion for what’s possible in the world of cloud services and join us!
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years of technical (software development, network development, IT, other related) experience
- 5 years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
- Experience in taking a product from conception & definition phase through engineering design and taking it to market
- Experience delivering large-scale SaaS, PaaS or LaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle, from concept through GTM (go to market)
- 5 years of working as a Product Manager on video codecs
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 working within teams delivering software products and features using agile methodologies
- MBA
- Knowledge of deep learning, machine learning and statistics
- Professional experience as a Software Development Engineer. Video codec background required. AI/ML experience preferred.
- Experience tracking and delivering a variety of metrics to all levels of leadership.
- A solid understanding of distributed systems architectures and the ability to apply this technical knowledge to ensure the quality, performance, and scalability of your service.
- Experience advising engineering leadership to influence internal and external engineering roadmap priorities.
- Strong finance skills relating to profit/loss management and pricing. Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
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