Head of Scripted Series and Movies, South Africa

4 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Amazon Dev Centre South Africa Full time

Experience overseeing all creative aspects of development, production, and post production of Scripted TV and/or Movies at a senior level (e.g. Series or Film Producer, Executive Producer, Head of Scripted or Film, Senior Commissioning Editor or above, or equivalent)
- Track record of developing, producing/executive producing, or creatively overseeing series
- Ability to interface directly with producers/filmmakers, represent the studio on individual projects with significant day to day autonomy
- Excellent story skills
- Fluency in English

Job summary

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to help 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 around the world 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 Original Series and Movies such as Coming 2 America, Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty, The Boys, Wheel of Time, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Underground Railroad, and Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse and Jack Ryan; hit Local Originals from around the world including Made in Heaven, Mirzapur and The Family Man from India; The Grand Tour from the UK; and LOL: Last One Laughing (now available in Italy, India, France, Germany, Mexico, and more); plus exclusives and live 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.

We are currently seeking an experienced senior creative development executive to work with the South Africa Originals team. In this Cape Town-based position, you will look after the creative, talent-related, and strategic aspects of Amazon Prime Video’s slate of local original scripted series and movies from South Africa. You will leverage your hands-on development/production experience, high judgment, collaborative spirit, and deep industry knowledge to bring a slate of projects to life to delight Prime Video customers everywhere.

You will work to create a welcoming “Home for Talent” to include creators and artists who represent the best of South Africa from all walks of life. You will cultivate talent of all levels and backgrounds and elevate South African voices and stories for the enjoyment of audiences in South Africa, Africa, and the world. You will ensure that Originals, and the teams working on them, include and reflect South Africa’s diversity across gender, age, spoken language, ethnicity/tribal affiliation, class, and more.

You will be joining a dynamic, hands-on, and growing Amazon Studios team, bringing an in-depth knowledge of the South African entertainment landscape. You will work alongside other creative executives based around the world to help identify material, attract the best talent, and give creative guidance and feedback to writers on outlines, scripts and cuts, ensuring that we are always raising the bar on storytelling. You will be working in a self-motivated, entrepreneurial, passionate and deeply collaborative environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Oversee Prime Video’s slate of commissioned South African originals across Scripted series and Movies
- Act as a key interface for the South African creative community with Amazon in all aspects, including sourcing potential new projects and assisting with talent relations
- Ensure originals meet the Studio’s global bar for excellence in originality and quality
- Provide visibility and feedback to senior leaders contributing to and executing Amazon Prime Video’s overall content strategy for South Africa and Africa
- Assess proposals/pitches in line with the Studio leadership's strategy for South Africa; provide bar-raising creative feedback to writers/producers on treatments, outlines, scripts, and cuts to develop stories
- Serve as a central point of contact for all Studios stakeholders supporting South African originals and content (Content Licensing, Marketing, PR, Business Affairs, Production Legal, Physical Production, Post Production, Finance, Customer Insights)
- Proven creative instincts with track record of developing successful series and/or movies within South Africa for a South African audience
- Broad network of working relationships with top South African directors, writers, producers and other on and off-screen talent
- Experience developing or producing higher budget, premium series and/or movies across the genre spectrum
- Experience in literary and other IP adaptations, and/or franchise development
- Have exceptional artistic vision and creative skills
- Excellen



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