Amazon · 21 hours ago
Product Manager - Technical (PMT III), Production & Post Technology
Culver City, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$136K/yr - $235K/yrAmazon MGM Studios is seeking an experienced Product Manager - Technical (PMT III) to drive the product vision and strategy for their Studio in the Cloud initiative. The role involves managing the product lifecycle for workflows that enable global collaboration among creative professionals and production companies, leveraging AWS cloud-based solutions.
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Responsibilities
Own product roadmap and feature priorities for SITC's nine core workflows (Dailies, Editorial, VFX, Sound, Conform, Color, Mastering, QC/Delivery, Remote Production), defining customer experience, vision, tenets, and product strategy across production and post-production domains
Develop differentiated adoption strategies for International Originals (flexible vendor ecosystems) versus US Global Originals (entrenched creative partnerships), prioritizing deployment based on technical readiness, creative acceptance, and business value
Understand SITC systems including OCF ingestion pipelines, media asset management, rendering infrastructure, and real-time collaboration—their limitations, scaling factors, and architectural decisions. Define technical requirements for latency-sensitive creative workflows requiring near-instantaneous response (4:4:4 10-bit color processing, high-resolution playback)
Address high-bandwidth, low-latency challenges across regions with varying network infrastructure, determining when to use Project Kuiper satellite bandwidth, regional ingest hubs, or hybrid approaches. Ensure solutions scale to 100+ concurrent productions
Build strategic relationships with top-tier post-production vendors (Company 3, Picture Shop, Fotokem, Pivotal, Harbor, Goldcrest) and creative tool providers (Avid, Adobe, Autodesk, Blackmagic, Colorfront). Partner with Business Development, Legal, and Business Affairs to develop vendor onboarding processes, rate card structures, and technical validation frameworks
Drive product discussions with senior creative leadership, distilling clear requirements from diverse stakeholders including directors, editors, production companies, post-production supervisors, and Studios finance. Build consensus across competing priorities and communicate with executives across Studios, Studios Tech, Finance, Legal, and Business Affairs
Contribute to OP1/OP2 narratives and influence engineering organization roadmaps. Write PR/FAQs and perform market research with directors, editors, and post-production supervisors to validate solutions
Develop product plans with clear success criteria including workflow adoption rates by region, production satisfaction (NPS), platform reliability (uptime, MTTR), and workflow cycle time reductions. Define showstoppers related to creative quality and ensure urgent bug triage
Actively recruit, mentor, and develop others in technical product management, media production workflows, and stakeholder management. Participate in hiring loops and perform PMT assessments
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
Experience managing technical products or online services
Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning
Preferred
Deep understanding of media and entertainment production workflows including one or more of: dailies processing, editorial systems, color grading pipelines, VFX rendering, sound mixing, mastering, or QC/delivery processes
Experience with creative tool ecosystems (Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Autodesk Maya, Nuke) and understanding of how creative professionals use these tools
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 1994
10001+ employees
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$8.11BKey Investors
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