Prime Video Linear
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Inventing the Future of Linear Experience
Inventing the Future of Linear Television
About us
At Prime Video Linear, we’re working to redefine the future of broadcast television. Traditionally, we’ve offered a lean-forward experience where customers can browse rows of personalized, thematic and genre-based carousels. With the Linear experience, customers can now lean-back and enjoy a curated experience of 24x7 linear streaming content with channels like AMC+, EPIX, Freevee, Paramount+, and Starz that span numerous genres and interests. They can select a favorite channel (or try a new one) and enjoy hours of curated continuous streaming content they know they’ll love. We recognize that customers value watching video with ‘zone out’ intent using TV to relax rather than watching with deeply focused attention. We’re catering to this customer desire by reimagining the future of linear television in a digital-first world.
What we do
We own the linear television experience within Prime Video. We focus on customer-facing, high-visibility, high-impact projects. We work cross-functionally to deliver a lean-back viewing experience that delights customers. Our technology focuses on real-time, event-based native AWS services and emerging front-end platforms including Mobile, Web, and TV. The team owns programming metadata management, linear content discovery, personalization, operational readiness, and end-to-end product definition and development of new features and capabilities.
Our vision is to be the world’s most-loved linear streaming service. We do this by building a best-in-class team and offering customers access to the greatest selection of linear TV programming, packaged in a trustworthy and personalized lean-back experience that is elegant, intuitive, and ensures customers never miss a moment that matters.
“The Linear space is an amalgamation of scale with timeliness. Scale brings distributed system problems, and timeliness brings optimization problems. In addition to the exploration of different design patterns from architecture to coding, we work with a wide span of backend and frontend technologies. And given Happy Team Members part of the team motto we get to experiment, build proof of concepts to have fun with, and learn new things while delivering an exciting product for our customers.”
We're all in on television
“Linear represents one of the major growth verticals for Prime Video. We're presenting the greatest linear selection like AMC+, Freevee, and Paramount+ for our customers around the world and investing in our people to reinvent the future of linear television!”
- Brian Griffin, Director of Prime Video Linear
Customer and employee experience
“Our team motto is Happy Customers through Happy Team Members. Our work impacts the lives of millions of customers around the world. It is thrilling to have this scale of impact and we continuously obsess about innovating on behalf of our customers in order to delight them. At the same time, we’re proud of our amazing team members who help us build delightful customer experiences, and we strive to make this the best team at Amazon. Our decisions are governed by our motto of Happy Customers through Happy Team Members.”
- Ashwin Needamangala, Head of Engineering, Prime Video Linear
“We are still in the early stages of building and growing a world class customer experience for Linear in Prime Video. There are always new opportunities to grow and develop processes and methods along with new challenges and lessons learned along the way. Work Hard, Have Fun, and Make History is not just a phrase here but what we practice every day. We get to re-write the script of how customers engage with Linear TV while keeping them at the forefront of how we get there.”
Our commitment to hiring the best talent.
At Prime Video Linear, we mirror our customers. We believe in building teams and products that reflect and offer an inclusive environment for all our customers, current and future. We celebrate diverse perspectives, and we create environments where all team members feel valued, trusted, connected, and informed. Our leaders work actively to honor Amazon’s public commitment to fostering diversity and being Earth’s Best Employer. And it’s still Day 1.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION
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