VFX Pipeline Technical Director

Job Description

Job summaryAs the VFX Pipeline TD for Prime Video s new initiative, you will own the daily operations of our exciting and evolving 3D workflows. You are someone who lives, breathes, and even dreams in Shotgrid and thrives working alongside the brightest minds in the business who are working to invent the future of VFX.You have an intimate knowledge of building customizable pipelines within Shotgrid and have tricks up your sleeve for navigating complex workflow challenges, with ease. This won t be your first time revolutionizing and evolving a unique and technologically complex VFX pipeline. You re not afraid to push the team at Shotgrid for solutions, either. You ll be a key and critical player in the development of a broader, highly scalable VFX pipeline uniquely optimized and streamlined to serve Prime Video s new initiative for years to come. You ll lead the charge on designing and developing custom tools to help everyone else get their work done faster and better. You ll collaborate daily with the CG Supervisor, report daily to the VFX Supervising Producer, VFX Supervisor, and ultimately to the Head of Production.You think in terms of efficiencies and solutions and you re all about helping your team succeed. You understand the existing VFX industry, workflows, and pipelines inside and out. You re not afraid to explore new tools and may have experience developing tools required to perform unique VFX processes. You have expert knowledge of all the main 3D VFX tool sets, composition applications, and rendering engines - and have an eye on the new tools and technologies emerging, and being developed today to deploy tomorrow. You re not afraid of basic Python scripting to solve a problem. You re interested in how CV and ML might eventually re-shape traditional VFX workflows.As the VFX Pipeline TD, a typical day will consist of managing and guiding the increasing workload through the existing workflow. In parallel, you ll be working with technical teams in the US, supporting their understanding and development of new products and programs. You ll be the first to know when our pipeline isn t running smoothly, and work to figure out what tools we can create to ensure the pipeline runs faster and every more efficiently.Key job responsibilities* Work closely with our VFX Supervisors, Engineering lead, and multiple PM s.* Take the on developing the new VFX pipeline in collaboration with our existing local (India) partners and vendors.* Source, identify, and propose new partners and vendors as we grow and scale.* Collaborate with account managers, peers and leadership to deliver highest-quality, highly efficient, scalable, VFX production workflows and delivery solutions.* Build and improve our fast growing, technical VFX post production pipeline.* Attention to detail and immaculate organization are critical .* Exhibit thought leadership with regards to trialing and on-boarding new software and tools into our existing VFX pipeline.* Exhibit extensive knowledge of cloud enabled workflows, pipelines, and delivery systems.* You will advise and understand the complexities that come with supporting 3D VFX and immersive projects from inception to completion.* Independently evaluate technologies, tools and techniques among our vendors and partners.About the teamThe team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If you live and breathe Shotgrid, like working with 3D Computer Graphics and VFX, have a passion for optimizing and streamlining VFX workflows, if you yearn to be part of the future of the VFX industry, and if this position sounds exciting to you, please read on., BASIC QUALIFICATIONS* Shotgrid Expert. Autodesk toolkit Expertise.* 5+ Years Post Production experience with VFX specific workflows, using Shotgrid.* 5+ Years VFX experience within a medium to high budget studio, vendor, or productions utilizing Shotgrid.* 2-5 Years Experience with media management, file management, DIT workflows, cloud based workflows.* Professional experience with a scripting language such as Python (mandatory).* Experienced utilizing programming API s and file formats for Nuke, Maya, AfterEffects, and offline renderers (Arnold, RenderMan)* Professional experience with UNIX and shared network file systems, systematic scaling of VFX pipelines, including procedural techniques through tools such as Houdini, VFX automation and process improvement, and working in studios with hundreds of distributed artists.* Experience with FFMPEG* Ability to handle a fast pace environment overseeing several projects in various points of post-production (development through delivery). * You ve built VFX pipelines from the ground up using Shotgrid (formerly Shotgun)* You ve supervised a small team of VFX specialists using Shotgrid* You re comfortable working in tandem with other teams working abroad* Desire and ability to work in a fast-paced online environment* Proven ability to manage multiple projects at one time and to meet aggressive deadlines* Proactively manage timelines, deliverables, and keep projects on track around-the-clock

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