Production Workflow Engineer, Production Technology Engineering

Production Workflow Engineer, Production Technology Engineering

Sector: Engineering, Technology
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

DESCRIPTION
Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the world's leading digital video services, and we're just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 200 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals Series.

Amazon MGM Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content and license studio programs worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon's Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights.

Do you like to build? Are you passionate about the Media and Entertainment space? Amazon MGM Studios (AMS) Production Technology Engineering is seeking a Production Workflow Engineer (PWE) who will be responsible for driving adoption of the Studio's production and post production workflows in the cloud.

Key job responsibilities
The AMS Production Workflow Engineer (PWE) is responsible for driving adoption of AMS Backlot: Create cloud-based workflows (dailies, editorial, conform, color, mastering, remote production and others). You accomplish this by educating customers, internal partners, and third party production companies about the Studio's Backlot: Create suite of creative workflows. You work with vendors to validate workflows and integrate local workflow with the cloud using Backlot: Create. The PWE builds and deploys Backlot: Create workflows, acts as a primary contact for our internal stakeholders and end-customers. The PWE gathers and communicates requirements and issues back to the product and engineering team. They work with customers remotely and in person.

You will be a subject matter expert on the Studio's workflows and post production creative workflows in general. You will anticipate future trends and identify applications of emerging technologies and provide information to Product and Engineering to reduce friction, eliminate waste, and support faster workflows. In addition, you'll help drive thought leadership around the Studio's cloud-based media and entertainment workflows. You will deliver written and spoken communications to establish AMS as a leader among studios who are using the cloud to expand capabilities globally, enhance capabilities, and ensure access to global talent.

A day in the life
You will lead engagements with management and post leadership at partner production and post companies, onboard productions, and help evangelize cloud production at the Studio and in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry.

AMS Production & Post Technology deploys and supports the operation of the Studio's cloud-based workflows. We educate customers, internal partners, and third party production companies about the Studio's suite of creative workflows in order to accelerate adoption of our global, high-performance cloud-based creative tools in support of the Studio's productions.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We are a global team with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building the next generation of cloud-based content creation workflows together. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
- Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
- Production technology and media/entertainment experience, such as building and managing post production workflows for films, series and unscripted productions
- Knowledge or experience in the capabilities, use and deployment of leading industry content creation tools like Avid Media Composer, Avid NEXIS, Blackmagic Resolve, Colorfront On-Set Dailies, Colorfront Transkoder, Adobe Creative Cloud

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly in customer implementations
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Business proficiency / fluency in Spanish and/or French

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