Creative Director, Prime Video Japan

Amazon MGM Studios is hiring a Creative Director for Prime Video Japan, based in Tokyo. This role sits inside the Japan marketing organization and owns the full creative output for the local content slate, spanning trailers, teasers, key art, and campaign assets across scripted originals, unscripted series, anime, and sports. It suits a senior creative who has spent meaningful time in entertainment marketing, understands how Japanese audiences consume content, and can hold a global standard without losing local cultural specificity.

About the Role

The Creative Director works within Prime Video’s APAC marketing structure, leading creative development for the Japan slate from brief through delivery. Day to day, that means running creative reviews, directing an in-house team of art and creative producers, and managing network agencies across simultaneous episodic television and feature film campaigns. The role carries both creative and budget accountability, covering production, post-production, and agency retainers across the full slate calendar.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct the creative development of audiovisual assets including trailers, teasers, and promotional cuts across Prime Video Japan’s original content slate.
• Write and deliver creative briefs to network agencies, then lead iterative development to bring campaign concepts up to a global broadcast standard.
• Oversee key visual production and static asset suites that anchor each title’s marketing identity across digital and physical channels.
• Manage creative budgets across pre-production, post-production, and ongoing agency retainers for the full Japan slate.
• Represent the Japan creative team in cross-regional conversations with APAC and worldwide colleagues, contributing to global style guides and sharing campaign performance learnings.
• Meet directly with content studio executives, directors, talent, and producers to align on campaign vision before creative production begins.

What You Bring

• A substantial background in entertainment marketing creative, with credits spanning episodic television campaigns, theatrical trailers, or streaming original content.
• Demonstrated experience directing agencies and in-house teams through complex, multi-title production schedules.
• Fluency in both Japanese and English, with a working knowledge of how entertainment marketing conventions differ between Japanese and global markets.
• Hands-on familiarity with motion design trends and an understanding of how AI and automation tools are being applied in modern post-production workflows.
• Experience managing production budgets at a campaign level, not just project level.

Why This Role

Amazon MGM Studios is building a genuinely competitive local slate in Japan, with investment across anime, sports rights, and scripted originals that gives this Creative Director real material to work with. The APAC creative team is structured to give regional leads meaningful ownership rather than executing against global templates. For a senior creative who wants to shape how a major streaming platform is perceived in one of the world’s most demanding entertainment markets, this is a substantive role with real scope.

Apply now for the Creative Director position at Amazon MGM Studios in Tokyo and bring your entertainment marketing experience to one of the most watched streaming platforms in the region.