Product Manager - Technical, Production & Post Technology

Amazon MGM Studios•Culver City, CA

About The Position

Amazon MGM Studios is seeking an experienced Product Manager - Technical (PMT III) to drive the product vision and strategy for our Studio in the Cloud (SITC) initiative. SITC is transforming how entertainment content is created by moving all major production and post-production workflows from traditional on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud-based solutions. This initiative encompasses nine core workflows—Dailies, Editorial, VFX, Sound, Conform, Color, Mastering, QC/Delivery, and Remote Production—representing the complete content creation lifecycle from Original Camera Footage (OCF) ingestion through final delivery. In this role, you will own the product lifecycle for workflows that enable creative professionals, production companies, and post-production vendors to collaborate globally using industry-standard tools integrated on AWS. You will work with leading creative tool providers including Avid, Adobe, Colorfront, and Blackmagic, as well as major post-production vendors such as Company 3, Fotokem, Picture Shop, and others who service the majority of high-value productions. Your work will reduce hardware dependencies, eliminate physical media transport, enable real-time global collaboration, and accelerate production timelines while maintaining the creative quality and flexibility that content creators demand. As a PMT III, you will operate independently with limited guidance, managing high ambiguity as you define product strategy, feature design, and technology approaches for a highly relationship-driven industry. You will navigate the complex dynamics between creative trust, vendor partnerships, technical innovation, and business transformation. Your work will influence engineering organization priorities and the strategic direction of cloud-based production across Amazon MGM Studios' International Originals and Global Originals slates, spanning over 150 productions annually across multiple regions. This role requires a unique blend of technical depth in distributed systems and media workflows, product management expertise, deep understanding of creative production processes, and exceptional stakeholder management. You will work backwards from the needs of directors, editors, colorists, VFX artists, and production teams to define solutions that enhance rather than disrupt their creative process. Success requires building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups including creative teams, engineering organizations, vendors, compliance teams, legal, business affairs, and executive leadership.

Requirements

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
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

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