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Amazon Creative Executive, Unscripted, Amazon Studios Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico
Description
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.
This role reports into the Head of Unscripted Development - International Formats, and will be key in helping the team identify new projects and expand upon its earlier successes around the world, including LOL: Last One Laughing, Wild and Free in Florianopolis, and our All Or Nothing franchise.
This executive will help define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching across local markets around the world, in their local languages, outside of the US.
We are looking for a creative leader with a passion for Unscripted TV of all genres (Reality, Docu-series, Shiny-Floor stage shows, Dating, Competition, etc) who thrives in a highly collaborative environment, but is also comfortable taking ownership . Unscripted post experience for several years in both US and Mexico is a plus.
The successful candidate will be able to effectively multi-task, juggling localized development needs, project tracking, and acting as a key creative with stakeholder across various Amazon cross-functional teams.
You will need to use communication and written skills to respond to situations and requests and building relationships with new production partners.
We look forward to you using your creativity to solve complex problems that affect the teams and productions with which you will be working, and supervising projects from early paper development, into the field, post, through final delivery.
To succeed in this role, you must have a curiosity in learning about the latest mainstream, pop-culture and understand the nuances in programming for local markets.
This role will be located in Mexico City.
Key job responsibilities
-Help lead multiple projects in various stages of development, from first pitch to series order.
-Support the development team in preparing materials for greenlight, including decks, sizzles, presentations, etc.
-Act as a key creative stakeholder with other departments including but not limited to:
marketing, business affairs, legal, PR, creative, production, and post-production teams.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of creative executive experience
5+ years of content creation or copy editing, including online publishing experience
Experience working with other departments such as casting, production, research, PR, business and legal affairs
Experience overseeing all creative aspects of development production and post production
Fluency in English and Spanish
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Adobe Creative software, primarily Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop/Indesign at an advanced level