LA 411 is hiring: Program Manager, Live Events, Prime Video Sports Operations in

This is a Full Time position in the field of Live Event Staging, Crewing, & Production, located in Culver City, CA.

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies, including live sports events. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business with a broad global footprint. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do.

Responsibilities

• As the Launch Manager, lead the execution of bringing new and existing live sports events to Prime Video for both 1P and third-party content, delivering a broad live sports selection for fans.
• Oversee onboarding activities from deal signing to first live broadcast, and maintain steady-state operations post-launch to ensure high quality and availability.
• Collaborate with content acquisition and marketing to develop roadmaps for expanding live sports coverage.
• Plan, coordinate, and track cross-functional work streams across product, technology, merchandising, and operations to launch new sports events.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, Production, and Marketing to define how live and on-demand content will be presented to customers.
• Work cross-functionally with content acquisition, product management, engineering, merchandising, and operations to document initiatives and drive them through execution to launch sports events.
• Coordinate with sports media partners and 3P content aggregators to build Digital Content Supply Chains and improve publishing processes for sports content.
• Establish goals, plans, and metrics; manage initiatives and track progress to achieve quality improvements and operational efficiency gains.
• Create reporting and dashboards for key metrics to illustrate progress and support management updates on a weekly/monthly basis.
• Define and execute programs to bring new sports leagues to Prime Video and successfully launch live events, while working under time constraints and maintaining a customer-focused mindset.

Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Experience and understanding of digital video streaming and/or digital video supply chain.
• Experience with managing projects for live broadcasting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience within sports entertainment.
• Experience building and managing operational teams for online services.
• Ability to build positive long-term relationships with internal and external partners and influence them to deliver results.
• Confident leader who can prioritize well and communicate clearly across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, make tradeoffs, and evaluate new ideas with technical teams.
• Experience with writing functional requirements to create new tools or refine processes/policies.
• Passionate about understanding customers and their behavior to drive feature development.
• Ability to deliver results and prioritize tasks in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Experience managing, analyzing, and communicating relevant results to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and marketing/business counterparts to deliver online products/services.

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