Technical Director, Media & Entertainment AI Infrastructure

Why work at Nebius Nebius is leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. We create the tools and resources our customers need to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. Our employees work at the cutting edge of AI cloud infrastructure alongside some of the most experienced and innovative leaders and engineers in the field. Where we work Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, Nebius has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America, and Israel. The team of over 1400 employees includes more than 400 highly skilled engineers with deep expertise across hardware and software engineering, as well as an in-house AI R&D team. The role The Technical Director of Media and Entertainment, AI Infrastructure is a senior individual contributor who operates at the intersection of deep AI infrastructure engineering and the business of media and entertainment. You will report to the GM of Media & Entertainment and help define the technical foundation that makes Nebius the default infrastructure partner for the world's most demanding M&E workloads. You will work alongside CTOs and engineering leaders at studio groups, VFX houses, gaming studios, agency holding companies, and generative AI model companies. Your role is not to pitch them; it is to build with them. You will translate their most complex infrastructure problems into engineered solutions, own the technical relationship with our most strategic ISV and cloud-native partners, and use what you learn in the field to directly influence the M&E product roadmap alongside Nebius's global Head of Product and Head of Engineering. This is a ground-floor opportunity to define what AI-native infrastructure looks like for an industry in the middle of a fundamental transformation. You are welcome to work remotely from the United States (SF Bay Area or NYC preferred) Travel expectations 10%-20% for executive meetings and key industry events. Your responsibilities will include : AI Infrastructure Architecture • Own the Technical Blueprint: Personally architect the infrastructure solutions for our most strategic M&E partnerships , studio-scale content production pipelines, agency data consolidation plays, generative AI model deployments. These architectures must be engineered to survive real-world scale, not just pass a POC. • The Physics to P&L Narrative: Fluently demonstrate to executive stakeholders how infrastructure decisions , data lake locality, storage tiering, inference optimization, directly impact their business model and operability. Forensic Requirement Gathering • Deconstruct the Bottleneck: Go beyond the stated problem to find the technical truth. Translate vague business goals (e.g., “We need lower rendering costs”) into precise engineering requirements (e.g., “We need to optimize the inference batch size on L40s to reduce cost-per-token by 30%”). • Map the Transition: Identify exactly where a customer sits on the curve from legacy service bureau to AI-native tech platform and prescribe the specific infrastructure intervention needed to move them forward. ISV & Partner Technical Strategy • Build and Validate the Integration Layer: Identify, engage, and technically validate relationships with the most critical ISVs in the media and entertainment landscape, from rendering and VFX toolchains to generative AI platforms. • Define the Standard: It is not enough to support these tools. You will define the reference architectures for how they run best on Nebius infrastructure, and work directly with ISV engineering teams to build and publish those standards. • Decide What’s Worth Doing: In partnership with the GM, evaluate ISV and partner opportunities on their technical merit and strategic leverage , and be equally rigorous about what not to pursue. Internal Technical Influence • Shape the M&E Roadmap: Use forensic evidence from the field to prioritize and justify the M&E vertical roadmap. You will work directly with Nebius’s global Head of Product and Head of Engineering to translate partner and customer needs into product direction. • Lead the M&E Product Summit: Chair a quarterly summit with Core Engineering leadership, using field evidence to drive roadmap decisions and maintain vertical momentum. We expect you to have : • 12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related technical domain. • Executive Presence: Capable of commanding a room of engineers and presenting a layered technical roadmap to a C-Suite. You have operated at the top-to-top level , your counterparts are CTOs and VPs of Engineering. • Builder Mentality: This is an IC role. You build things. You are not here to manage a team or delegate to an implementation function , you are here to architect and ship solutions alongside partners, and to build the assets (reference architectures, integration…