Director & Country Head, Prime Video India, Amazon Prime Video India

Amazon Prime Video s vision is to be the world s favorite entertainment brand, and the first-choice entertainment hub globally. Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows, movies and live sports events - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels (3P streaming services) and to rent new release movies on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is at the forefront of the entertainment industry and growing fast, now available in 240 countries and territories worldwide. We work in a dynamic and exciting environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do.

Prime Video launched in India in Dec 2016 and over the last 7+ years has been at the fore-front of shaping the entertainment streaming industry with its world-class international and disruptive local programming, category-creating initiatives and deep customer connect - all resulting in a strong business growth (of Prime and Prime Video) and deep fandom for our content and the service.
We are happy with the progress we have made to-date and believe that the stage is now set for us to move into the next phase of our growth in the country.

To achieve our ambition to be amongst the largest video-entertainment destination in India over the next decade and to drive profitable growth for our business, we are looking for Director Country Head for Prime Video in India, who will help shape this going-forward strategy as well drive our business content.

As a customer-obsessed leader, Director Country Head for Prime Video in India will lead a high-performance team and accelerate the adoption of Prime Video offerings. This person will be a part of the Prime Videos Asia Pacific (APAC), Middle East North Africa (MENA) Leadership Team, reporting to the regional Prime Video Vice President (VP) and will be a key contributor to drive the overall Prime Video adoption in the India.

Key job responsibilities
The person in this role will be:
Tasked with defining the long-term vision and strategy for overall Prime Video business in India
Responsible for overall Prime Video customer and revenue growth (across offerings)
Responsible for overall profitability and financial-markers for the business
Directly responsible for Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) business (including any offerings with Ads) as well Video Marketplace business (Channels Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD)/movie rentals)
Own all key customer metrics and outcomes for our video streaming business in India.
Directly responsible for most of the key functions including customer growth, business management, consumer content marketing, video marketplace, content acquisition licensing and overall content strategy
Partnering with the local Amazon MGM Studios team for creating disruptive and impactful Local Originals for Prime Video India
Working closely with key partner teams across Product Technology, Telco Device distribution, Ads and WW Sports teams to drive key business outcomes for Prime Video India
Partner closely with India Prime and Stores (Retail) teams to grow the overall Prime program
Represent the business across Public Policy, Regulators, Industry associations, PR and other public facing initiatives
Lead by influence across all teams that partner with Prime Video in the country.
Deep proven experience in building growing consumer internet and media business in India
Deep experience delivering business top-line and profitability growth in leadership roles
A Bachelor s degree in Business Administration or related field