Principal Technical Program Manager, Twitch
$141.6-275.3k
Gaming-focused livestream platform
Job no longer available
Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$141.6-275.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- You will bring deep technical, program management, and leadership expertise
- You will have a desire to find and implement improvements, and a desire to improve product shipment efficiencies
- 8+ years of project management or technical program management experience
- A history of shipping quality products at scale, in the video streaming space or using distributed cloud technologies
- Ability to align roadmaps and manage disparate tasks with varying priorities
- Experience managing multiple executive sponsors, stakeholders, and dependencies
- Experience working with distributed teams and facilitating virtual meetings
- Experience finding and addressing risks with all levels of leadership
- Experience in negotiating and resolving conflict smoothly and with or without formal authority
- Bachelors in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field, or equivalent practical experience
Desirable
- Experience with distributed cloud technologies and projects (AWS)
- Understanding of real-time video streaming at scale
What the job involves
- The Video Platform team is building the future of interactive video to serve both Twitch.tv and the AWS community through our recently launched AWS offering, the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)
- With trillions of minutes of video being delivered every year on our platform, we need a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to manage the delivery of our services
- As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will ensure the teams are delivering the highest quality products and services predictably while meeting the technical needs of our community
- You will guide both strategy and tactical decision-making to deliver complex cross-team programs
- As well as partner with program managers to help support the strategic deliverables while working with engineering to support important technical efforts
- You will report to a Director of Technical Program Management
- This is an opportunity to work within Twitch and AWS to help define the next generation of video platforms
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as engineering, product, marketing, security, and legal
- Manage complex cross-team programs from ideation to implementation to delivery
- Create transparency and predictability with roadmaps, planning, and partner management
- Ensure goals are met on time and hitting our quality bar
- Manage delivery schedules and emergent tasks while mitigating risks, managing tradeoffs, and eliminating blockers
- Set and embody the team culture and standards consistent with Twitch and Amazon principles
- Drive alignment with AWS and Twitch business and technical leadership
- Report to the Director of Technical Program Management for the Video organization
Our take
Twitch is the world's leading video platform for gamers, allowing users to livestream gaming sessions and curate a dedicated community for their content. By dedicating the platform to gaming alone, it has amassed a loyal following of fans, and been able to launch its Partner Program where streamers can monetize their livestreams, incorporate corporate partnerships, and even attend TwitchCon, a convention where dedicated gamers can socialize.
Twitch's acquisition by Amazon in 2014 saw its viewers double in a year, bringing the platform to a wider audience. However, with YouTube streaming popularity on the rise, it has big competition to contend with, as some popular streamers prefer going live on the video giant. Interestingly, a recent move by the platform was to enable its partner streamers to make live content on other platforms - previously inhibited by its exclusivity clause - which may combat the possibility of losing streamers permanently to YouTube.
In 2022, Twitch had to contend with backlash for its proposal to cut creator income by reducing their cut of subscription earnings. However, with the plan only affecting a minute number of creators, the controversy appears to have died down. Needless to say, Twitch is for now entirely comfortable in the market - with possible plans to extend past gaming bringing the chance to generate more popularity yet.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2013
$20m
SERIES C
Sep 2012
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $43.2m
Company HQ
Belden Place, San Francisco, CA
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