Software Development Manager, AI Studios

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.