Studio: Skydance
Job Opening: Pipeline Technical Director
Location: Mid-City, Los Angeles, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Solve production issues that require technical expertise
- Own, support, and improve the pre-production and production pipelines
- Collaborate with technical staff across studio sites and external vendors to increase the efficiency of dailies, data exchange, and tracking
- Thoroughly understand the animation production process, both internally and when working with external vendors
- Establish high-functioning levels of communication with creative and technical staff both within the studio and at external vendors and partners
- Liaise between production and technology departments, translating production needs into technical requests
- Create tools and automation to reduce the technical burden on the creative staff
- Regularly examine user experiences, satisfaction, and level of understanding to identify areas of improvement in the pipeline
- Collaborate with IT to evaluate and integrate changes to the studio infrastructure
- Document tools and workflow and train creative staff on those processes
- Examine new and innovative technologies, evaluate, and ultimately present how to improve the pipeline
Qualifications & Skills:
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or comparable discipline and/or technical and creative knowledge gained through equivalent experience
- Excellent communication and customer service skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to work independently while balancing multiple competing priorities
- Understanding of CG concepts and workflows
- Experience with third-party software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Foundry Flix, Autodesk Maya, Foundry Nuke, and Autodesk Shotgun
- Proficiency with Python scripting language
Bonus Skills
- Experience in computer animation, visual effects, or the game industry
- Experience supporting animation pre-production departments such as Story, Editorial, and Previz
- Experience with pipeline and plugin development in third party DCC tools
- Experience with software development languages such as Java, Javascript, C++
- Experience with other toolkits and systems such as Qt, Docker, Git, AWS
- Experience with OSX, Windows, and Linux operating systems
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