Technical Director

This is a Full Time Job

We are a full service Stop Motion Animation Studio currently looking for a Technical Director to help develop and maintain our production pipeline, assist in production needs, renderfarm management and create software/script tools to facilitate daily operations. Interest and experience with 3D-printing, photogrammetry, and VR toolsets is a plus.

Responsibilities
• Work with artists, leads, and supervisors to understand day to day production workflow needs
• Help develop and implement work from home solutions for multiple departments during COVID
• Collaborating with Head of Production, Producers, Directors, Artists to identify and design workflows
• Develop and maintain Animation and Pipeline Tools for Thinkbox Deadline, After Effects and Maya + V-Ray
• Modification and maintenance of existing tools to suit the needs of the studio, projects, and artists
• Develop and integrated tools for Shotgun Toolkit in a Multi-OS Multi-Client environment
• Provide technical support, troubleshoot artist tools and manage expectations
• View production systems holistically and visualize the larger pipeline while understanding the impact of their actions

Qualifications
• 2+ years experience working in a production environment
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Digital Art, other related field or equivalent work experience
• Thorough understanding of VFX and/or Animation production and pipeline development practices
• Excellent organizational, communication, problem solving, and documentation skills
• Motivated self-starter able to handle multiple priorities at once
• Strong knowledge in Shotgun Toolkit, Python and Qt (or similar)
• Experience with a variety of commercial graphics applications such as Maya, Nuke and GI renderers such as VRay or Arnold. Cloud rendering a plus
• High level of proficiency developing software
• Experience with GSuite for Enterprise
• Ideally, experience with: Unreal Engine, 3-D printing, photogrammetry, virtual reality, and managements of workstations via services like Kandji, Kolide or Fleetsmith
• Willingness to follow COVID and general health and safety guidelines as detailed by company when/if physical production is required

Covid-19 precautions
• Remote interview process
• Personal protective equipment provided or required
• Plastic shield at work stations
• Temperature screenings
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Virtual meetings
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place