Visual Pioneering Producer

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the successful bidding, resource allocation, production, and management of Virtual Production projects including content creation, shoots, tests, and data acquisition
• Creates and maintains production schedule based on approved bid
• Partners with Supervisors, Leads, Artists, and other stakeholders to develop creative solutions and achieve project goals, ensuring that all deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality
• Builds and maintains close relationships and rapport with clients, vendors, and other industry partners, to facilitate their needs and ensure that their project expectations are met or exceeded
• Ensures clear and open communication with artists, clients, vendors, stakeholders, and industry partners, providing regular and timely updates on project status, milestones, deliverables and any changes to scope or schedules
• Identifies and proactively mitigates potential project risks or roadblocks, and communicates them to stakeholders as needed
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary and diverse project teams including On-Set, Virtual Art Department, Volumetric Capture, Digital Humans and VFX for final deliveries
• Determines allocation of resources on projects, including liaising with global Scanline VFX Studios as required
• Works in tandem with the Director of Virtual Production & Head of Production to foster progressive partnerships between the Research, Creative, Technological, and Production arms of Eyeline Studios
• Fosters the adoption, promotion and streamlining of new practices, frameworks, and technology as it applies to Virtual Production within the company
• Provides administrative tasks in the form of timecard billing review, resource projections, and general team management support
• Supervises and mentors assigned production staff, championing a positive, collaborative, inclusive and respectful work environment
• Participates and oversees work on virtual production and capture stages and on set, as required

Qualifications

• You are an experienced Producer within the Visual Pioneering or VFX industry with pre-production and development experience leading the concept and visualization process either the client or vendor side, with a proven track record of delivering high quality work
• You have a thorough understanding of live-action and CG based VFX methodologies, pipelines and terminology
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate with clients, artists, and stakeholders, as well as build partnerships with technology teams
• Strong project management (budgeting, scheduling), resource allocation, organization and strategic planning skills
• Experience with bidding, estimating, and proposal creation for new projects
• You are self-motivated and focused, with excellent problem solving and decision making skills, adept at handling a fast-paced on-set environment
• Previous experience of leading and managing production teams, as well as strong knowledge of production management tools and software (ShotGrid, Google Suite, MS Office Suite, JIRA)
• Advanced MS Word and Excel skills