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. About the team Amazon MGM Studios creates and produces original films and television series for a global audience. Leveraging technology and our catalogue of original Movies and Series, AMS is uniquely positioned to succeed in providing by taking advantage of Amazon's vast scope including AWS, retail, gaming, and publishing, to create immersive entertainment experiences across multiple platforms. Our vision is to be the most technology-advanced studio and the entertainment home for talent and customers. Studios Technology at AMS is at the forefront of the entertainment revolution, where Hollywood meets tech. We own the technology strategy that powers one of the world's largest entertainment studios. Based in Los Angeles, our team delivers cloud-first solutions and modern applications that drive the entire Studios Production Lifecycle, shaping the future of entertainment delivery from content creation through distribution. Via tooling, automation, and AI, we support five key stages in the Studios Production Lifecycle: IP & Rights, Content Production, Sales & Distribution, Financial Management, and Studios Operations. We serve thousands of AMS employees and creative and executive partners across development, acquisition, legal, programming strategy, internal and external production, post-production, visual effects, localization, delivery, marketing, sales, licensing, finance, accounting, and operations.

Requirements

2+ years of end to end product delivery experience
5+ years of technical product or program management 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
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 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 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