Applied Science Manager, Prime Video - Content Localization, Understanding & Enrichment

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports - including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video"s technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video team member, you'll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You'll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You'll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We'll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

We are looking for an Applied Science Manager who will take care of the Content Understanding for Prime Video. Content Understanding team helps Prime Video "see" and "understand" what"s actually happening inside its videos - the characters, scenes, dialogue, events, and visual elements. We build the systems that analyze video content so that we can build customer experiences on top of our work. This manager will also lead a team of scientists and engineers who are building the next generation of video understanding and search for Prime Video. You will own the strategy, execution, and delivery of systems that help machines watch, describe, and find content across the largest streaming catalog in the world.

Key job responsibilities

As an Applied Science Manager, you will:

• Define and drive the technical direction and roadmap across our "understanding" and "search" workstreams - making sure our work connects to Prime Video"s broader goals around content intelligence.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team of scientists and engineers, building a culture of scientific excellence, customer focus, and reliable delivery.
• Partner with teams across Prime Video (personalization, search etc) to understand what they need from us, shape our outputs to be reliable building blocks for their products, and drive adoption.
• Own delivery end-to-end - from early research and experimentation all the way through launching production systems that run at the scale of Prime Video"s full catalog.
• Define and track success metrics for quality, reliability, and real-world impact on downstream products, continuously raising the bar on what "good" looks like.
• Manage ambiguity across a broad set of workstreams, make clear prioritization decisions, and communicate trade-offs effectively to senior leadership.

About the team

The Prime Video - Content Localization, Understanding and Enrichment team"s mission is to deeply understand content to automate & scale existing solutions, and launch new experiences across Prime Video while accelerating science outputs & forward-investing in science.

This manager will lead Content Understanding that defines content at a fundamental scene-level by generating & maintaining a comprehensive set of Content Understanding attributes which are leveraged across Prime Video for their varied use-cases; ranging from content moderation to metadata generation, ad placement identification, etc.