Studio: Netflix
Job Opening: Manager, Post Services – Animation Series
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the smooth running of the technical infrastructure and operations of specialty spaces and Editorial at Vine Studios, home of Netflix Series Animation.
- Manage a support team to provide remote and on-site support of our specialty spaces, ensuring functionality, best practices, and color consistency.
- Works directly with Netflix Production Management and Post Management to determine and advise technical solutions for our productions.
- Partner with Media Systems and Production Engineering teams to refine and evolve the engineering and technology support structure, both for on-premise and off-premise requirements.
- Provide real-world perspective, setting the context, parameters, and business requirements, for our Studio and Product Team partners to provide Tier 2 & 3 levels of support.
- Partner with other engineering stakeholder teams to develop and evolve tools, platforms, and workflows that meet the challenges and demands of the business in the future state.
- Partner with the in-house VFX Manager to implement color workflow guidance to our productions and creative artists working remotely and at Vine Studios.
- Support the growing Previs infrastructure and artist population to ensure software needs are evaluated and solutions discussed with Production stakeholders.
- Ensure the network at Vine Studios is always optimized to meet business requirements by closely partnering with our Tier 2 internal engineering teams to clearly define and refine responsibilities.
- Provide on-site preventative maintenance and calibration to technical infrastructure to ensure optimum performance.
- Capture and analyze support requests to recognize trends over time.
- Create a cross-training program for your team to allow them to support each other during periods of heavy work and vacations.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in production or post engineering and/or production technology at a Post Production Facility.
- Deep knowledge and experience of digital production and post-production workflows encompassing Non-Linear editing, Color Science, VFX, and Audio mastering.
- Strong relationships and hands-on knowledge of key Industry Manufacturers, their tools, and software, such as Avid, Adobe Premiere, and SyncSketch.
- Understanding of networking (switched IP protocols, DNS, ports), network storage, and workstation architectures and how they relate to and optimize production and post-production workflows and media management.
- Experience across Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems and workstation hardware, workstation hardware (GPU’s, memory, etc.) and the Google Tool Suite.
- Ability to respectfully engage with creative executives and content creators.
- Ability to manage and operate in ambiguous situations and think on your feet to solve challenges and problems.
- Strong communication skills with proven ability to socialize, explain and pitch technology, tools, and workflows clearly, verbally, and in written form.
- Proven track record of innovation, initiative, ideation, and implementation.
- Experience with instituting quality management frameworks and process improvement.
- Experience leading and collaborating with diverse teams across multiple functions, skills, and locations.
- Strong organizational skills with a proactive mentality, positive orientation, and outlook.
- Knowledge of the technical and artistic aspects of animation or VFX as well as understanding of 2D and CG pipelines.
- Experience in leading, mentoring, and training direct reports and partners.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to prioritize assignments and initiatives.
- Team player who thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented setting.
- Ability to handle a heavy volume of work, supervising several projects in various points of production (from development through delivery).
- Passionate about our culture and values in the workplace.
