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The Video Delivery Scaling team is looking for a Technical Business Developer to lead our video delivery expansion and scale in Europe, to support our future growth for live events and VOD (video on demand).

You will become a trusted advisor and a subject matter expert on regional capacity planning and delivery scaling/build out for Prime Video. You will have a strong understanding of CDN, be familiar with peering and transit negotiations, ideally with personal experience managing business relationships and completing or overseeing similar negotiations in prior roles. You ideally will have worked for a large-scale content provider or a Content Delivery Network (CDN) in a similar role. You will have experience and knowledge of the inner workings and critical components of a successful embedded caching program and video delivery technology.

• Key job responsibilities
• Engage with CDN and ISP partners, establish relationships, negotiate contracts, and ensure our customers have the bandwidth they need to view the content they want, whenever and wherever they are
• Procure and scale video delivery capacity in new and existing markets
• Deploy solutions to successfully deliver exclusive live events at scale, including low latency UDP based live streaming
• Drive new strategic initiatives by partnering with leading companies across a variety of market segments to support the launch and growth of Prime Video's business
• Partner with AWS, CDNs, ISPs, and mobile carriers to establish the right mix of network capacity and embedded cache deployments
• Drive solutions that will improve playback performance for the long tail of customers streaming in remote locales and poor performing networks
• Create opportunities with regional carriers to more efficiently deliver live streams at scale with lower latency and better quality (e.g. multicast/broadcast)
• Collaborate with a variety of internal teams including business development, legal, and deployment, to successfully implement strategic growth plans in new markets.

A day in the life
In a typical day, you will be working with third party partners to understand how much bandwidth they support, the quality of the bandwidth, and using that information build strategies to deliver to customers video streams of the highest quality.

About the team
Video Delivery Scaling team supports all Prime Video streaming, including VOD, channels, and live events for every country where Prime Video is present.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Understanding of the negotiation strategies involved in working with ISPs
• Technical experience with CDN architecture and embedded caching, and understanding of related topics in the data centre space
• Knowledge of IP peering ecosystems

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field
• Experience developing, leading, negotiating and executing corporate and/or business transactions

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