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Production Manager
3 years ago
Tangent Animation is the vision of Animation and Film Production industry professionals, with combined experience that encompasses CG Animation, Live Action Film Production, Visual Effects, and Software Development. Tangent Animation employs open source solutions to create high quality animated feature films. What sets us apart from many other studios is our use of Blender, an open source software to make our animated films. We are scouting for the best talent and enthusiastic people who are eager to join our amazing team!
Job duties iinclude:
- Monitor the project budget and overall planning while ensuring the production runs smoothly
- Communicate with producers, coordinators, creative and technical leads regarding directives and production requirements
- Work with production coordinators on a solid work plan, and follow-up to ensure deadlines are met
- Project Analysis
- Validating the list of assets, plans and number of allocated days
- Evaluation and update production costs
- Analyze departmental breakdowns
- Work with the Line Producer to identify bottlenecks in the pipeline and develop solutions
- Planning
- Establish and maintain the overall production schedule
- Set and verify the objectives set by each department
- Set up reviews with the production team and Director
- Production
- Analyze Production Coordinators production reports
- Anticipate emerging issues and take proactive actions to alleviate the issues
- Budget
- Monitor and predict costs: collaborate with accounting for reports
Requirements
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Strong time management skills, the ability to prioritize workload combined with a sense of urgency, work well under pressure and meet multiple critical deadlines daily
- Must be a confident and enthusiastic communicator
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced creative team environment
- Ability to work collaboratively and in a team environment
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Strong time management skills, the ability to prioritize workload combined with a sense of urgency, work well under pressure and meet multiple critical deadlines daily
- Must be a confident and enthusiastic communicator
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced creative team environment
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in project management in a film production environment, animated TV series or visual effects
- Knowledge of the creation process and terms used in Visual Effects production and CG pipelines
- Knowledge and ability to use MS Office, Shotgun, Excel, Google applications and to learn proprietary studio tools quickly and effectively.
Benefits
- Great company culture, with a team that is very technically proficient, highly motivated & excited to work on projects that will change the industry
- Competitive health and dental benefits
- Casual dress-code
Tangent Animation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation upon request for candidates taking part in the recruitment process.
We thank you for your interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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