Join us as a Software Development Manager on the AI Studios org within Amazon Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, where you'll lead a team building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI and cinematic storytelling. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive the development of 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 lead a team of engineers delivering production-quality AI-powered creative suite while fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation. You'll partner closely with creative professionals (animators, filmmakers, and storytellers), guiding your team to implement features that directly transform how animation and live action/VFX content is made for our most ambitious productions. This is an ideal opportunity for engineering leaders who are passionate about AI/ML applications in entertainment and want to build and grow high-performing teams while shaping industry-defining products featuring iconic IPs.

Key job responsibilities
-Define the team's charter and technical vision in partnership with stakeholders, scientists, product managers, and creative professionals
-Own the roadmap, balancing short- and long-term decisions with clear goals to deliver on that vision
-Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software development engineers building our AI-native content creation platform for professional animation and live action workflows

• Drive architectural decisions across the stack — from backend services, media processing pipelines, and APIs to ML platform and creator-facing tooling
• Define metrics to measure development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence, ensuring adherence to SLAs
• Stay current with emerging technologies in AI/ML, media processing, and distributed computing, guiding the team in adoption

About the team
We're part of AI Studios, a newly established org within Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, building an AI-native content creation platform at the intersection of AI/ML, media processing, and cinematic storytelling. Our platform empowers animators, filmmakers, and storytellers to produce professional animation and live-action/VFX content featuring world-class IPs at unprecedented speed and scale. As a greenfield team, our tech surface spans backend services, ML model training and inference, media pipelines, and creator-facing tooling.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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.

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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, Sunnyvale - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 203,400.00 - 275,200.00 USD annually