Production Operations Manager
- Full-Time
- Culver City, CA
- Amazon.com Services LLC
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
- 3+ years experience as a producer/production manager or line producer
- 3+ years experience with budgeting, scheduling and cost reports
- Experience coordinating, documenting, and communicating inter-departmental meetings and outcomes
- Experience using productivity and communications tools including Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, and Word
Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we're just getting started changing the way millions of people enjoy content. Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals such as the Emmy Award-winning comedies Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Boys, Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, Donald Glover’s Guava Island, the Academy Award-winning Manchester by the Sea, Academy Award-nominated The Big Sick, exclusives, and live concerts and sports.
Amazon 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.
The Production Operations team is making our productions smarter and more stream lined. We are designing solutions to manage hundreds of productions worldwide so our dollars are spent on-screen for our customers to enjoy.
Amazon Studios is looking for a Production Operations Manager to support our growing production ops team. You will be responsible for organizing shared documents, researching industry best practices, recording meeting notes, and managing calendars. You will leverage your cross collaboration and enthusaism to build effective working relationships with studio executives and producers. This is a growth opportunity for those passionate about production operations and becoming operations managers.
Responsibilities:
- Manage team collaboration (e.g., maintain day-to-day schedules, to do lists, track progress of assignments and dependent tasks, identify and resolve scheduling conflicts)
- Assist development of manuals and policies (e.g., writing, aggregating from industry examples and proofreading)
- Build and maintain analysis tools (e.g. spreadsheet creation and data input management for vendor comparisons, supply estimators, projections, forms based on industry examples)
- Research industry best practices
- Organize and distribute documents (e.g., collect operations reports and proliferate protocols, policies, manuals, and forms)
- Prepare agendas, compile notes and manage distribution for various team meetings
- Manage all administrative support functions, including meeting preparation such as video and conference call coordination, supply ordering, and team event coordination
- Update and distribute studio contact lists and ensure that they are managed per studio requirements.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Highly motivated, organized individual who is able to work independently and effectively in an ambiguous environment
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment
- Positive, proactive and able to always exercise great judgment, team-oriented philosophy
- Quick and eager for using new tools
- Proficiency in a foreign language helpful
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