SDM, Media Supply Chain - Localization, Backlot Source

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television that are offered on Prime Video? Do you want to define the next generation of what Amazon customers are watching? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems that solve the complex problems involved in the digital media supply chain? Looking forward to manage a team of highly competent software engineers? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you. The successful candidate will manage an existing team of software development engineers, partnering with other managers, to design, build, and operate innovative Media Supply Chain- Localization management software. With a high degree of ownership, you will develop our proprietary solutions end-to-end. Who we are? The Source Plan (SP) team builds and maintains Global Localization product for Amazon Studios' proprietary digital media supply chain, a comprehensive platform that manages the complete lifecycle of digital media assets from creative inception through final distribution. Our platform serves as the digital backbone for all first-party content produced and owned by Amazon Studios, providing a single pane of glass view for billions of images, videos, audio files, and documents. The Source Plan team develops and maintains secure, scalable, low-latency, and reliable services that handle authoring Localization Plan of Record (LPOR), Localization workflow management responsible for delivering artifacts like subs, dubs, force narratives etc. for Amazon Originals, integrate with 3P vendors and agentic automation for material handoffs, infer 1P and 3P AI models to localization material generation and QC. Our unified digital asset management solution features highly configurable ingestion, approval, and distribution workflows that seamlessly integrate within the Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem, connecting with internal systems for data exchange and enrichment. Key job responsibilities • Manage overall software development life-cycle of Global Localization product for Media Supply Chain. • Manage multiple software engineers in one team. • Work closely with engineers to design and build innovative products in a large distributed computing environment. • Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics. • Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization. • Work with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes. • Own all operational metrics and support. • Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management. • Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon. • Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives. • Set clear, measurable quality goals for the team in a data-driven way. Personal traits not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders: • Demonstrate excellent judgment, are right a lot • Hire and develop the best people • Able to dive deep and never out of touch with the details of the business. • Strong results orientated approach. • Think big and have a bias for Action. • Deal well with ambiguity. A day in the life • Work closely with engineers to design and build innovative products in a large distributed computing environment. • Drive operational excellence initiatives that scale across Amazon's global entertainment ecosystem • Lead programs that create and distribute Localization materials to 1P and 3P streaming partners.

You will be managing an existing 2-pizza team based out of LA, which will interact/interface with 4 other sister teams that exist in the program and multiple other cross functional teams in the org.