Manager of Production Technology
Description
ON THE
FRONTIER OF ANIMATION
Building on Paramount’s 100 years of
making some of Hollywood’s most iconic films, Paramount Animation is bringing
visionary artists and storytellers together to create a world-class animation
studio. We are looking for talented, collaborative, and hardworking artists who
will help us continue to shape an all-star team of filmmakers.
This position will support and manage the technical efforts
for all animated films and will work closely with Paramount Pictures IT to help
integrate and grow the Paramount Animation division.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee capital spending across all animated
films.
- Track and deploy all hard assets across films.
- Partner with IT to negotiate and secure deals for hardware and
software.
- Work across all animated films to establish
technical uniformity; including workstation configurations, data and asset management,
tracking and backup systems.
- Perform technical due diligence at vendor
studios – assessing pipeline as well as infrastructure.
- Research, implement and support remote
collaboration systems and tools across all animated films.
- Work with vendor studios to find common ground
on remote tools and other collaborative technology.
- Help lead the technical aspects of office space
build out(s).
- Research, implement and support pre-production
tools in the areas of storyboarding, art/design and editorial integration.
- Work with vendor studios to integrate
pre-production and CG production at critical touch-points (i.e. Story to
Editorial to Layout).
- Stay active in the animation technology
community and continuously look for new and productive tools and solutions.
- Look for opportunities to leverage company
resources and technical know-how to improve and scale the Paramount animation
business.
- Act as a subject matter expert and educate
senior management team on animation
workflows and production technologies.
- Responsible for creating budgets, timelines, and
resource allocation for Production technology initiatives
Requirements:
- 5+ years in animation/ VFX
- Strong film/ production experience – understands
hardware/ software requirements to support these areas
- Some supervisory experience preferred
- Excellent project management skills, organizing
and planning skills
- Understands how to bridge technology, creative
and business needs
- Thrives in fast-paced, deadline-driven and
start-up environment
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