Head of Production, Southeast Asia Local Original

15+ years of experience as Film or Television Producer/Production Executive or the equivalent with a focus on local Asian and International content.
- Ability to juggle multiple large scale projects efficiently in a fast-paced environment while delivering outstanding results.
- Direct leadership experience, having managed teams in the corporate or production space.
- A strong understanding of South East Asian motion picture industry custom and practice and an appreciation of the differences that exist in each territory.
- Extensive experience obtaining Asian production benefits, subsidies, tax credits and reclaiming VAT or similar taxes when applicable.
- A strong working knowledge of basic co-production and financial structures.
- Ability and availability to travel when required.

Job summary
Are you interested in shaping the future of television? 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.

Key job responsibilities
- Manage a team of production executives throughout SEA.
- Hire, train, supervise and set career growth plans for the team.
- Develop team goals, roadmap and strategy consistent with international leadership.
- Support the Amazon Studios Local Originals team to produce scripted content in the most economical and efficient manner with the highest production value by maximizing local and regional production benefits and subsidies.
- Work with other stakeholders throughout the company to support creation of policies and procedures that are scalable for utilization across multiple territories in SEA.
- Provide insights on local custom and practice, and government regulation, to assist with resolving problems with SEA productions.
- Provide oversight of the local original movie projects in development and production throughout South East Asia, and coordinate effectively between external partners and international leadership to ensure projects are completed on schedule.
- Collaborate with local executives in each territory along with producers, line producers, production managers to assess budgets, production plans, and schedules. Provide feedback to international leadership on production risks and/or options that can impact staying on budget and schedule.
- Work with all internal teams, both locally and in the U.S., including post operations, production finance, tax, legal and development.
- Travel throughout Asia when necessary to assist leadership with evaluation of work-flow, budgets and potential problems, and provide feedback.
- Provide support to local production executives with respect to the analysis of budgets and cost reports.
- Act as a liaison from producers to the Local Originals Studio team when required.
- Experience with local guilds and unions
- Multiple Asian language proficiency
- Experience working on international productions.
- Able to recognize an opportunity or need based on industry expertise.
- Exceptional and effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Exceptional project management skills.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
- Familiarity with Movie Magic Budgeting & Scheduling software.
- Ability to review budget and scheduling documentation produced by the above software.