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Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios · 1 day ago

Product Manager - Technical, Production & Post Technology

Culver City, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$136K/yr - $235K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon 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. This role involves managing the product lifecycle for workflows that enable collaboration among creative professionals and vendors, focusing on integrating industry-standard tools with AWS cloud solutions.

InternetSoftwareWeb Development

H1B Sponsor Likely

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 budget 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 roadmaps with clear success criteria including workflow adoption rates by region, production satisfaction, platform reliability, 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

Technical product managementMedia production workflowsCreative tool ecosystemsStakeholder managementCloud-based solutionsBudget managementMarket researchMentoring

Required

5+ years of technical product or program management experience

2+ years of end to end product delivery experience

Bachelor's degree

Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

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

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

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 virtual workstation technologies, GPU virtualization (NVIDIA GRID, AMD MxGPU), remote desktop protocols (PCoIP, Parsec, Teradici), or DCC (Digital Content Creation) tools in cloud environments

Knowledge of media industry technical standards including codecs (ProRes, DNxHD, H.264/H.265), color pipelines (4:4:4 color sampling, 10-bit depth, HDR), and professional video/audio formats

Track record of launching products in relationship-driven industries where user trust, creative control, and quality perception are critical to adoption

Experience managing products for highly skilled professional users (creative professionals, engineers, designers) where workflow disruption is unacceptable and change management requires careful planning

Benefits

Equity

Sign-on payments

Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios

Prime Video delivers an entertainment destination unlike any other—fast, reliable, personal, effortless, and delightful.

Founded in 2006

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

http://primevideo.com

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