Coordinating Producer
Amazon
Coordinating Producer
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
Come be a part of Amazon's dynamic Live Sports Production team. We are looking for an experienced Coordinating Producer to serve as a centralised production lead across all our live sports properties portfolio across EU and ROW, with particular focus on NBA.
The Live Sports team is responsible for delivering high-quality event and studio productions on all global live sports properties to customers worldwide, across all Prime Video product lines and devices. We are responsible for the on-screen customer experience and drive production excellence and consistency through all our delivery.
The growing volume and complexity across our properties sees us growing our editorial presence within the Live Sports team. This role will function as a first point of contact on all daily operational delivery across assigned properties, ensuring consistency and a high bar in our output, resolving any immediate vendor concerns in close collaboration with internal teams and stakeholders. Our operations is purpose-built around the needs of an expanding, multi-sport live portfolio rather than a single traditional broadcast network structure. We are defining and building as we evolve, and this person must be excited to roll up their sleeves and help establish the systems, relationships and workflows that will scale with us as our rights portfolio grows globally.
This role requires deep knowledge and experience within live sport editorial production and programming, including current knowledge of the broadcast landscape across a variety of regions and have established relationships within the industry. The role will work in lockstep with production leads to define production deliverables across each property and set content strategy. The role will also work closely with internal stakeholders within Business, Marketing and Advertising Sales to ensure commercial needs of our business are operationalised. Additionally, this role will partner directly with our Production vendors to establish best practices, define operational standards for how vendors will deliver for us, and ensure alignment on processes and expectations across the vendor landscape.
The successful candidate is a self-starter who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment. You possess the ability to manage high volume of tasks and varied projects quickly with autonomy, react with urgency to situations that demand immediate attention, and have a proven track record of end-to-end ownership in a fast-paced, dynamic
business environment.
Key job responsibilities
Production Oversight & Execution – Oversee assigned parts of the Live Sports production, ensuring quality and consistency across properties with regular reporting on delivery. Operationalise property launches alongside Production Operations, contributing to budget discussions, aligning spend with editorial ambitions, and partnering with Technical Operations for best-in-class broadcast delivery. Own daily operational delivery, lead property syncs, and attend on-site and studio productions to provide vendor support. Lead vendors in troubleshooting editorial and operational issues through live productions, providing timely resolution and post-event escalation as needed.
Creative Direction & Editorial Standards – Act as editorial lead across assigned properties, building content strategy in collaboration with production leads. Use local knowledge, viewership data, and performance metrics to drive continuous improvements in production delivery. Build awareness of broadcast innovations, recommending editorial and programming changes that enhance production CX and delight customers.
Vendor & On-Screen Talent Management – Maintain oversight and responsibility of on-screen talent line-ups, ensuring vendors contract, schedule, and coordinate talent to a high bar. Provide clear deliverables for production vendors and lead regular syncs to guide editorial execution and provide timely feedback.
Internal Stakeholder Management – Partner with relevant business leads to oversee the full production portfolio, representing production in local-territory discussions. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Marketing, Advertising Sales, Public Relations and Social Media, to ope rationalise integrations, balancing editorial quality with promotional activities.
Key job responsibilities
Responsible for managing entire productions including editorial and talent. Working closely with prodution management and technical leads to ensure productions are on budget and technically sound.
A day in the life
Working closely with vendors including producers, directors, graphics operators and engineers.
About the team
The EU production team are responsible for all NBA production in 200+ territories (outside US), UCL in Germany, Italy and UK, Roland Garros in France, Wimbledon in Germany, Premier League in Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands, as well as Football (Soccer) in Brazil and Mexico.
- Experience as a creative executive
- Experience working with other departments such as casting, production, research, PR, business and legal affairs
- Experience overseeing all creative aspects of development production and post production
- Experience working as a producer, creative executive, or a similar role
- Knowledge of the television and media industry
- Experience with communication, presentation, and negotiation
- Experience of digital sports content creation, strategy, audience development, or business development experience
- Experience in live sports events production and/or operational planning
- Knowledge of the US media landscape
- Experience developing content that is award nominated, or from a broadcast network or streaming platform
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