Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios

Job Position(s): Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios

Amazon MGM Studios is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios in Culver City, CA. This role sits at the center of live action and VFX production capability development for Nara, an AI-native production platform being built to serve the studio’s film and television slate. It suits a technically fluent program manager who has worked across engineering, applied science, and creative production teams and knows how to keep complex, multi-track programs moving under real production pressure.

About the Role

The AI Studios team operates inside Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios as a dedicated unit building production tooling for cinematic animation, live action, and VFX workflows. The Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios owns end-to-end delivery for the live action and VFX production vertical, coordinating across engineering, applied science, product, and creative partners including directors, VFX supervisors, and production managers. A typical week involves translating production requirements into technical execution plans, managing cross-functional dependencies, and driving release readiness decisions before capabilities reach creative teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Own program delivery for live action and VFX pipeline capabilities, defining milestones, sequencing dependencies, and making scope trade-offs to protect the critical path against production milestone dates.
• Partner with engineering and applied science leads to evaluate AI/ML pipeline architecture, model integration approaches, and media processing service decisions that balance production timelines with platform durability.
• Interface directly with VFX supervisors, directors, producers, and production managers to translate on-set and post-production workflow requirements into platform investment priorities.
• Author program narratives, decision documents, and status mechanisms for senior leadership across Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, framing trade-offs clearly for executive audiences.
• Define and track success metrics tied to creator adoption, production throughput, and platform reliability, reporting through formal business review mechanisms.
• Design and operate intake, triage, and roadmap tracking mechanisms that scale the organization as production concurrency increases across the studio’s slate.

What You Bring

• Significant experience as a technical program manager working across engineering, applied science, and product teams on AI/ML or media processing systems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional programs within episodic television or feature film production environments.
• Familiarity with VFX pipeline architecture, post-production workflow, or creator-facing tooling development.
• Track record of influencing engineering investment and org-level prioritization decisions at a senior leadership level.
• Strong written communication skills with experience producing executive-facing documents and program status mechanisms.

Why This Role

Amazon MGM Studios carries one of the most active production slates in the industry, spanning theatrical features, global Prime Video series, and animation, giving this role direct impact on titles audiences will actually see. The Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios position comes with high ownership and direct influence over how the studio adopts AI across its production pipeline, not as a supporting function but as a principal driver. This is a staff-level role with cross-organizational visibility inside one of the few studios actively building proprietary AI production infrastructure at scale.

Apply now for the Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios position at Amazon MGM Studios and bring your program leadership directly to where production and AI intersect.