Videography Manager

Amazon is looking for an experienced and accomplished Videography Manager to play the leadership role in defining breakthrough imaging solutions for our studios. The incumbent will bring innovation to high volume imaging workflows, reducing the operational cost while improving the quality of imagery produced. The Creative Manager is required to stay at the forefront of visual content within online retailing, ensuring that Amazon is ahead of the curve and ready to incorporate relevant solutions into the customer experience.

The successful candidate will be a motivated individual who will manage all aspects of video production from concept through final delivery, ensuring that all elements confirm to the core tenants of the specific video format or program and the creative vision. In this role the qualified candidate will be responsible for managing the daily operations of a team of photographers and videographers. The role includes executing creative direction, creating category specific templates, establishing procedures, building production workflows, and ensuring visual consistency across multiple projects and categories, While continuously raising the bar on quality.

• Manage a team of Photographers and Stylists responsible to produce the highest quality imaging (Photo, Video, Multimedia) for all products at scale.
• Sustain and evolve the Digital workflow and related Digital Asset Management (DAM) functions by working with the Digital Technicians and regional/global stakeholders
• Maintain consistently high standards for accuracy, aesthetics, and productivity
• Work with business partners and global stakeholders to define customer problems, and build innovative scalable solutions/processes with global impact from the ground up and execute large scale team projects
• Develop techniques and best practices for shooting new categories/projects, and disseminate those practices worldwide
• Attend weekly program or business reviews, understand and respond to customer data or anecdotes, participate in periodic video content strategy discussions and
• Develop and evolve creative workflows and technical SOPs for Amazon’s photo studios
• Interact directly with external teams to provide and receive visual guidance, implement process improvements and deploy new visual formats
• Interact with business partners and experimentation teams, to test solutions and analyze data for process improvements and new initiatives
• Ensure creation of robust training and process documentation