Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios

Amazon • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join us as a Sr. Technical Program Manager on the AI Studios Engineering org within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where you'll drive the delivery of intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and cinematic storytelling. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead programs for Nara, our AI-native content creation platform that empowers creators to produce professional animation and live action content featuring world-class intellectual properties at unprecedented speed and scale.

In this role, you'll own end-to-end program delivery across AI-powered creative tools, media processing pipelines, and ML model integrations. You'll work alongside ML engineers, Platform engineers, applied scientists, creative professionals — animators, filmmakers, and storytellers — to coordinate and ship features that directly transform how animation and live action/VFX content is made for Prime Video's most ambitious productions. This is an ideal opportunity for TPMs who are passionate about AI/ML applications in entertainment and want to drive impact on industry-defining products featuring iconic IPs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs across engineering, science, and creative teams.
• Own program strategy and roadmap for Nara platform capabilities, AI model development, integration, and infrastructure, as well as creator tooling initiatives, driving prioritization across competing demands in a fast-moving AI/ML environment.
• Develop comprehensive program plans with clear scope, milestones, resource requirements, and success metrics.
• Evaluate technical proposals across AI/ML pipelines, media processing services, and creator-facing tooling, and partner with engineering and science leaders on trade-off decisions around model training, inference, and content generation workflows.
• Communicate program status, risks, and recommendations to executive leadership across Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios.
• Ensure on-time delivery of milestones for animation and live action/VFX production, track impact on cost reduction and timeline compression, and drive continuous improvement across a rapidly scaling organization.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies on pipeline integrations.
• Partner with the science team on model fine-tuning plans.
• Run showcases or demos for stakeholders.
• Lead roadmap planning sessions.
• Work with creative teams to understand production needs and pain points, and translate those into technical requirements for engineering.
• Lead milestone reviews and clear blockers so teams can ship.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed