Principal Product Manager - Tech, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios

Amazon • Culver City, CA

81d • $161,900 - $279,900

About The Position

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Shape the future of cinematic storytelling: for creators, by creators. We’re seeking a founding Principal Product Manager – Tech to reimagine how premium live-action, VFX, and animation content is made with breakthrough multimodal AI. At Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, you’ll lead product strategy for a next-generation production toolkit that puts AI superpowers directly in the hands of content creators.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience technical product management

Nice To Haves

• Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
• Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
• Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale
• 8+ years of VFX environment experience

Responsibilities

• Act as a founding PM-T with high ownership and transformational impact
• Think systems-first across complex, collaborative studio pipelines (from previs to final pixels) for both live-action/VFX and animation
• Define product patterns and scale platform capabilities for global, multi-user production use cases
• Operate from first principles; raise the bar for craft, simplicity, safety, and creator delight
• Own end-to-end product strategy for AI-assisted workflows from previs to production to post
• Translate emerging model capabilities into shippable features that creators love
• Define interoperability with DCCs and review/handoff primitives that fit real studio pipelines
• Champion safety and IP provenance: content controls, auditability, model/version traceability, data governance, and IP-respecting defaults
• Run creator-in-the-loop validation: recruit filmmakers/VFX supervisors/animation leads, design pilots, and turn qualitative insights and production data into roadmap decisions
• Build PR/FAQs, tenets, and success metrics; drive specs through delivery/QA with Engineering and Science; iterate quickly toward measurable time-to-screen and cost improvements
• Communicate at the right altitude, from detailed product reviews to executive narratives and live demos
• Partner with Studio Ops, Production Technology, and Content leaders to align requirements, milestones, and slate needs; influence cross-team roadmaps
• Raise the bar on product craft and team culture; mentor PMs and help recruit a diverse, creator-obsessed team

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree