Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios in Culver City, United States. It pays $149k-$201k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AI evaluation, program management and AI ml pipelines.
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Drive end-to-end delivery of AI-powered production capabilities and workflows on the AI Studios team at Amazon.

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Join us as a Sr. Technical Program Manager on the AI Studios team within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where you'll drive the delivery of AI-powered production capabilities that are transforming how movies and TV series get made. AI Studios is building Nara, an AI-native production platform that empowers professional filmmakers to create cinematic-quality animation, live action, and VFX content at unprecedented speed and scale. We are a fast-growing team operating as a startup within Amazon, with direct ownership of studio-level goals.

In this role, you are accountable for whether Live Action and VFX production capabilities ship on time and meet the technical, science, and UX quality bar required by our creative partners. You own end-to-end delivery across Engineering, Product, Applied Science, UX, and creative production teams to meet the needs of our studio's production slate. You'll translate production requirements into technical execution plans, manage cross-functional dependencies, drive prioritization decisions, and ensure delivery against ambitious milestones. This is an opportunity for exceptional TPMs who want to operate at the intersection of AI/ML and cinematic storytelling, with high ownership, autonomy, broad cross-functional influence, and direct impact on how the entertainment industry adopts AI.

Key job responsibilities
As AI Studios’ Sr. TPM, you will own end-to-end delivery for complex, cross-functional programs spanning engineering, applied science, product, and creative production teams. You will:

- Drive program delivery for live action, VFX, and digital second unit productions. Translate creative production needs into execution plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and success criteria, making scope and sequencing trade-offs to protect critical path.
- Own release readiness for your production vertical. Ensure capabilities meet production-grade quality, stability, and workflow requirements before they reach creative partners.
- Partner with Engineering and Applied Science leads on technical trade-offs across AI/ML pipelines, media processing services, model integration, and creator-facing tooling. Evaluate technical proposals, drive architecture decisions that balance production timelines with platform durability, and assess emerging AI/ML capabilities for applicability to production workflows.
- Influence engineering investment decisions and org-level prioritization by synthesizing production learnings, platform gaps, and technology trends into actionable recommendations for leadership.
- Partner with Product to shape the roadmap based on production impact and strategic alignment, and translate priorities into executable delivery plans with clear ownership and timelines.
- Own cross-team dependency management and resource coordination across multiple concurrent productions. Negotiate priorities, unblock teams, and ensure sequencing aligns capabilities to production milestone dates.
- Communicate program status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership across Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios. Exceptional verbal and written communication is essential: you will author program narratives, decision documents, and status mechanisms that frame trade-offs clearly for executive audiences.
- Interface with creative production stakeholders (directors, VFX supervisors, producers, production managers) to understand production needs, drive prioritization of platform investments based on production impact, and close the feedback loop as capabilities land.
- Define and track program success metrics tied to creator adoption, production throughput, and platform reliability. Report on progress through business review mechanisms.
- Contribute to AI Studios programmatic leadership: design and operate the mechanisms (e.g., intake, triage, status reporting, roadmap tracking) that scale our organization as production concurrency grows. Build repeatable frameworks that enable teams to execute independently and reduce coordination overhead.

A day in the life
Your morning starts with an engineering standup where you review sprint progress and unblock a dependency between the generation pipeline and the tooling integration team. You connect with a VFX supervisor on an active production to confirm that a capability shipping this week meets their approval workflow requirements. A production partner surfaces a blocking issue hours before a creative review. You assess severity, coordinate an immediate workaround, communicate timeline to the partner, and make the call on whether to escalate or absorb.Mid-morning, you run a milestone review with Product and Science, adjusting sequencing based on a model evaluation result. After lunch, you partner on a cross-vertical mechanism (production telemetry rollout) that benefits both animation and live action. You prep a status narrative for a leadership review, then close the day by clearing a resourcing conflict between two concurrent productions vying for the same engineering capacity. Throughout, you're operating with high ownership in a fast-moving environment where AI capabilities evolve weekly and production demands are real and immediate.

About the team
AI Studios is a high-ownership team within Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, building the AI-native production platform that is defining how cinematic content gets made with generative AI. Our team is small, fast-growing, and operates with startup intensity backed by Amazon-scale infrastructure. We work directly with professional filmmakers, animators, and VFX artists on active productions. We hold a high bar for execution, move quickly, and have direct visibility to senior leadership. If you want to work on an industry-defining product with real production stakes and ambitious creative partners, this is the role.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
- Experience designing and developing robust and scalable software and services in multimedia areas
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
- Experience owning program strategy, managing end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience scaling an organization through rapid growth or expansion

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
- Experience in the entertainment, film production, or VFX industry

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Culver City - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $149k-$201k a year.
The role is based in US, CA, Culver City.
The job was posted on June 12, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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