Digital Artist Employee Manager
Description
Job Title: Digital
Artist Employee Manager
Department: Digital Studio
Reports to: VP,
Digital Studios
Status: Exempt Classification: Full Time, Staff position
Date:
September 2016
Location:
1618 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 1V4 Salary Range: $90,000- $132,000 / Annum
NOC: 0112
Apply on line: http://careers.digitaldomain.com/ Purpose of the job:
The Digital Artist Employee Manager is
responsible for the management, career development, and recruitment of
digital artists in varying skill sets within the company. The Digital
Artist Employee Manager oversees the planning and scheduling for artists in
their group to ensure talent is appropriately utilized across all projects,
as well as partnering with the technology management team to identify talent
to participate in ongoing Software and R&D initiatives.
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Essential Functions/Responsibilities: - Responsible for
recruitment, career development, performance evaluation, performance
management, and talent retention
- Partners with
Department Supervisors to collaborate on artist career development goals and
ongoing initiatives
- Participates in
long-term planning with Digital Studio team, Producers, and Supervisors to
create appropriate staffing and recruiting plans; attends weekly staffing
meetings to ensure labor is effectively utilized across all projects
- With the VP, Digital
Studios, forecasts artist labor utilization ensuring appropriate utilization
levels are consistently maintained
- Attends bidding
meetings with Producers and Supervisors to ensure that the proper staffing
breakdowns are created and provides both internal and external candidate
options
- Partners with
Production Management and Supervisors to anticipate staffing changes and
additional resource needs throughout the life of a project
- Meets with Production
teams, Supervisors, and artists regularly to ensure consistent communication;
serves as a liaison between the artists, Supervisors, and Production to
facilitate feedback
- Works with the
Recruiting team to manage the recruiting process by reviewing incoming reels,
facilitating Supervisor and Production reel reviews, leading interviews,
collecting feedback and communicating action items on all candidates
- Maintains strong professional
relationships with talent at other facilities in an effort to predict
employee availability for current or upcoming projects
- Participates in project
post-mortems and ensures areas of improvement for artist management and
pipeline development are identified and appropriate action items are assigned
and delivered
- Oversees the creation
and maintenance of department documentation
- Promotes a positive and
productive work environment
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Qualifications:
Education and/or Experience
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in
film, art, computer science or related field required
- 5+ years computer
graphics production experience including 2+ years experience managing a team
within a large-scale VFX pipeline
Skills, Abilities, Special Licenses or
Certificate:
- Ability to establish
priorities, multi-task efficiently, and work with diverse personalities and
all levels of management in a high-pressure environment
- Must have strong
leadership qualities with the ability to effectively delegate and mentor technical
individuals
- Excellent communication
skills, both written and verbal, as well as solid follow-through on multiple
projects required
- Demonstrated ability to
resolve conflict
- Outstanding customer
service skills and the ability to develop and foster relationships with
internal stakeholders required
- Comprehensive knowledge
of Microsoft Office and Google Apps required; experience with Shotgun a plus
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Working Conditions and Environment/Physical Demands:
- Office working
environment.
- Hours for this position
are based on normal working hours but will require extra hours pending
production needs.
- Walking/bending/sitting.
- Eligible for BC Medical
monthly premium coverage upon your enrollment into BC’s provincial plan. Also
eligible to be enrolled into Digital Domain’s extended health and dental
benefits plan
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The above statements are
intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed
by people assigned to this work. This is
not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities associated with
it. Digital Domain 3.0, Inc management
reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and
organizational needs.
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