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Senior Narrative Producer

The Narrative Producer works alongside the Creative Director, Virtual Production Director and Animation Directors to handle and run talent, motion capture, post-production and cinematic animation at an elite storytelling level.

We are a team that prides itself on its storytelling abilities and you will be a key member in ensuring that vision makes it to our games, on time and at quality.

You will work with talent, onset crew and animators and be one of the key roles in ensuring everyone up and down the narrative pipeline is working to their best abilities.

Responsibilities:

• Be a partner to the Directors and push the content creation of all aspects of narrative for the game.
• Lead the task and scheduling management of motion capture and cinematic production. Covering pre-production, onset production and cinematic integration into the game for collaborators both internally and externally.
• Proactively assist in connecting the dependency schedules from departments up and downstream of your department. Ensure the teams are flowing efficiently through their work. Be vocal and advocate for change when it's relevant to do so.
• Troubleshoot and drive solutions in motion capture and animation production pipelines.
• Ensure an extraordinary experience to everyone onset as you coordinate with talent, crew and internal staff at our in-house motion capture facility.
• Break down tasks into manageable chunks for clear individual accountability. Seek out “definitions of done” for ambiguous tasks. Ensure every member of the team understands the scope, quality and time expectations across your departments.
• Assist in updating planning information and make sure your department’s plan is fitting into the larger game plan. Lead the budget adherence and adjustments within scope for all aspects of the narrative production. Report on budget status.
• Evaluate and communicate risk or production issues to Senior Management and Department leads.
• Provide regular status updates to partners. Ensure the departments are making good choices by supplying them with intelligence in the form of status reports and efficiency forecasts.
• Help coordinate or project management emerging special projects as we build the studio, related to the setting up of the internal motion capture facility (eg. gameplay motion capture).

Requirements & Skills:

• Strong time management skills in a technically sophisticated and fast-paced work environment. Experience hiring and working with actors on the business side.
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• At least 4 years of experience as a Project Manager or Associate Project Manager in a videogame or film/TV production role. In particular, AAA cinematic animation project management experience.
• Bachelors in Business Administration, Game Development, Art or Film/Commercial Production or equivalent.
• Knowledge and experience in creation of AAA videogames and animation.
• Experience with Jira or Shotgun/ShotGrid.
• Experience working with remote outsource partner teams in the above capacities.

Qualities:

• Attention to detail, timely follow-up and strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience working on production sets (eg. movie, TV, video game capture).
• Adaptive project management skills, knowing when to use formal or informal tactics and strategy to achieve project success.
• Great social skills and can "read a room" with executives, actors, developers and everything in between.